Yesterday I went to work like normal and found out I was going to be shadowing a nurse in the Peds Emergency Department for the shift.
If you haven't heard me talk about it, two things:
1.)Our unit's census is down. We have no (and by no, I mean not enough to have every nurse work) patients right now which is great for the babies and families, but not so great for job security. Nurses from my unit keep having to stay home.
2.) Cross training to the Pediatric ED is something I've wanted to do for a really long time so I was super excited about the opportunity to go there and see what it was like.
Well, I really liked being down there. It's COMPLETELY different from NICU (well it was yesterday). We kept getting patients in and then getting them out. Not something I typically see at work. I hope they let me cross train for reals there. It would definitely require some retraining for me (terminology, lab values, procedures, etc), but I think it would be good for me.
If you haven't heard me talk about it, two things:
1.)Our unit's census is down. We have no (and by no, I mean not enough to have every nurse work) patients right now which is great for the babies and families, but not so great for job security. Nurses from my unit keep having to stay home.
2.) Cross training to the Pediatric ED is something I've wanted to do for a really long time so I was super excited about the opportunity to go there and see what it was like.
Well, I really liked being down there. It's COMPLETELY different from NICU (well it was yesterday). We kept getting patients in and then getting them out. Not something I typically see at work. I hope they let me cross train for reals there. It would definitely require some retraining for me (terminology, lab values, procedures, etc), but I think it would be good for me.
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