What a difference a year makes.....

So, I disappeared from the blog-osphere for a while. I needed to get my act together with the jump into the new career. Get used to the new schedule, learn a tremendous amount of information, and such. So, now here it is.... A year has gone by since I graduated nursing school. I have been a genuine RN for 10.5 months. Taking a look back, I can honestly say that I love what I do.

I spent the first 10 months working on a pediatrics floor at Broward General Medical Center. It was what I call soup-to-nuts nursing. On this floor, I took care of patients with a variety of diagnoses, everything you can imagine. I had patients as young as 5 days old, and as old as 20. I would usually have 5 patients per night, but the staffing was getting so bad, that towards the end, I had 6 patients more often than usual. From time to time, I would also work the pediatric hematology/oncology floor. This floor could be quite intense, because the patients could go bad at any time.

I grew to really appreciate my co-workers. I relied so heavily on their knowledge sometimes, and some were so accomodating. So, along with all the knowledge and experience I took away with me, I also left with some new friends.

Now, I have just moved to the HUGE HOSPITAL here in Miami, into the pediatric transplant surgical unit.