A New Job

Tomorrow is my first day at my new job. I am transferring to a hospital that is just down the road from our house. I am so excited. I have been really unhappy at my last job for awhile now, even to the point that I was starting to wonder if nursing was where I should be. I am hoping that this change is what I need.

I will be working in the recovery room with patients that have just come out of surgery. This is a great job for me because I will be using my critical care skills and I will be back in the operating room environment, which is where I started my medical career. I really do think that nursing is where I am supposed to be, but just not working on the floor. It really isn't the place where I can use the skills that are my strengths. Thank God that there are nurses out there who enjoy the floor because it can be a tough and thankless job.

I will still be working prn since right now my priority is taking care of my girls. I will be working about 6-8 hour a week. Not much, but enough to get out of the house, make a few dollars and keep up my nursing skills. I will have to take a 24 hour weekend call shift once a month, but we don't usually have to much going on during the weekend since the girls are still young.

I am nervous about all of this change, but sometimes you have to take a risk in life and be willing to embrace change in order to find happiness. For the first 6-8 weeks I will be working part time until I get oriented. This is going to be tough, especially on Jai, but it has to be done so we will make it happen.

I am also going back to school this fall! I have always said that I was going to go back, but I was really just saying what I thought other people wanted to hear. It is so easy to just get caught up in life, but deep down I have felt that something is lacking. Sometimes I am even embarrassed that I don't have my bachelor's degree. So after years of talking about it, but deep down not really meaning it, I decided that it was time to to "shut up or put up" so I started looking for an online nursing program and surprise surprise...Boise State now has an online RN to BSN program. I took this as a sign and applied and now I am a student again!!! I start this fall and will only be taking one class until I see how it is all going to go, but hopefully as I get back into student mode I will be able to take a few more each semester. I have 6 nursing classes and 3 or 4 core classes to take and at the rate I am going it could be 2, 3 or even four years before I am finished, but better late than never!