New Job

I have changed up my nursing jobs a lot over the last couple of years and as Robb would put it I look a bit "job hoppy". This was not my intention but it is true. I had went back to NICU because that is my true love but our unit has been really slow for the last 6 months and we have been getting cancelled from our hours, put on call or being used as nursing aides or sitters all over the hospital. I don't mind being helpful to units that need it but I do mind never working in the area that I was hired for and having to do everyone's dirty work! Earlier this year a friend of mine told me about this new surgery center that she was putting in an application for. It sounded interesting and they were going to be doing pediatrics so I would still get to do kids. I put in an application and had an interview. It was a brand new outpatient surgery center so they were pretty up front with saying they didn't even know what they didn't know. I was fed up with nights and ready for a new challenge. Fast forward to April which was my starting date. I was now an employee of Doctors Outpatient Surgery.

Good bye navy blue scrubs and hello Carribean Blue. When I started most insurance companies were not yet approved yet so we had no patients. We spent our days doing a lot computer work. We made all the forms that we were going to need, we created the policies and burned time. We burned time for 2 months with having only minimal patients. Everyone started to get antsy and bored and the company ran out of money. They gave us options and we were leased to Bryan the hospital we were a part of. Some of us went there and some of us went back to where we came from. I decided to keep working my prn job at St. Elizabeth in the Endoscopy unit. It's not my favorite but its an ok job. I am trying to ride out the hard times at this new job because I like the people that I work with, the management and if I can just hold on through the hard parts, my hours will be really nice eventually.