New job

This new job post is becoming an every year thing, which is not something that I am terribly proud of. I like being a nurse but trying to find a nursing job that meshes well with our life and gives me the time I need with my family has proved to be very difficult to find. The last year I have been doing home health through Ambassador Home Health. While it was an ok company to work for, the management was not experienced enough at what they were doing to expand and get as big as they were. We were understaffed and didn't have enough resources to offer our patients. Don't get me wrong, I really loved some of the patients that I saw. I would see them week after week and really get to know them but at the same time I usually didn't feel like I was making a long-term difference. They need more than just home health once a week for 6 months. I felt like I had added 15 kids to my brain to worry about at any given time. Did he have enough O2 to get through the weekend? Was her wound getting septic and would she call or go in before it was too late? Was he going to fall again? Did he have enough food to get through the weekend? Would they be safe in the house with their drug addict child there? There were so many things that I worried about on an almost constant basis. Home Health gave me the flexibility in my schedule that was nice, but it was never set up to be a part time job. I couldn't just decide 2 days a week not to work. Not to mention, the charting was a complete nightmare. For every 1-hour appt I had I had at least 30 min of charting to do, and that wasn't counting calling doctors, getting new orders, picking up meds, or ordering supplies. They were really starting to crack down on us charting at the home, which that right there tells me that they had no idea what home health entailed. Some of the homes I went into weren't safe, had horrible living conditions, smokey, full of cat pee, bed bugs etc. I didn't spend any extra time there than I needed to do my job. 

That is where my DOSC friends came in really handy. We had all left as a group when they completely screwed us over during Covid. Ashley and I had both went to different home health jobs, Shawna had gone to the imaging center and Sara had gone to another outpatient surgery center. After talking with Sara, I knew that outpatient surgery was the schedule and the job that I wanted. Ashley had recently switched to this too so the gang would be back together. Both Sara and Ashley spoke to the manager to get a position opened up for me. They told her that she was going to regret it if I found another job and she missed this opportunity. Talk about having the best friends ever! I applied at NE Surgery Center and did a zoom interview and excepted a part time position that week. I had to give Home Health a month's notice and I felt bad because Sara Boden was my nurse manager and friend, but she was very understanding. I started at NE Surgery center after Easter and have really enjoyed it so far. It was slightly awkward starting there because my entire family had Covid, so on my first day and the rest of that week I had to check into employee health for a Covid test before I could go to work. So far, I have really enjoyed it and the nurses there all seem great to work with.