Well I have completed my first week on the unit and I am very satisfied with my choice. It feels so much better to be where I want to be working with the population that I want. All the staff on the unit friendly and nice. However, even in the first two shifts I have noticed that the CNAs kinda have to be told what needs doing! Ugh! Frustrating! Anywho I had three patients which was max for our team because we had "monitored" patients, meaning they are on the heart monitor. They were heavy even for two of us. They were all post-op with PCAs, and needed to be turned every two hours. In Pediatrics each hour the Monitor and IV rate has to be documented. So 3 patients X 12 hours, X 2= 36 turns; most of which my preceptor and I did. No wonder my back hurts! Ive got most of the tasky stuff down, just trying to figure out the policies and procedures. I still have about 3 weeks of orientation left to go. I am glad that I am orienting during the holiday season, because I can get my holidays off...I'm off until Tuesday AM!
About the Hospital, its 332 beds, I am on the Unit called (Starship) Explorer, each unit in the hospital is named with regards to Space stuff. So there is Apollo, Discovery, Voyager, Explorer and Craycroft. This hospital is about 10 years old but before that they were in the heart of Fresno before moving to Madera.
As I am going through my orientation Im finding that I am doing a lot of comparing to my other job, I guess because that was my first RN job and its all I know. So it makes it easier to learn I affiliate everything I am learning to what I previously learned.
Anywho Ill keep you updated my progress, trials and tribulations as this new adventure begins.
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