work

Hi All,
Work is going well at the moment. I have begun to settle in now. Over the past week, I have had the chance to be the RN in charge twice. I have realised that I am only just able to manage that. I felt like I had run around and achieved little yesterday. My performance was praised, though, so I can't have done too badly for a new grad.

I have decided what kind of RN I want to be, just have to make it happen now. I want to be calm and in control but flexible at the same time. Haven't manged either yet. When I am in control, I am not flexible at present.

Days off now, so I can organize something a little less demanding today.

days off

Well, I have just had two days off and I feel like I have managed to catch up with my housework and some gardening. Don't get me wrong, I still have a very long to do list, but I have started.

Yesterday it was wonderful to manage a day without deadlines. I had lots to do but the day was mine and I did it at my pace. I haven't felt like that for ages.

Ah well today I have deadlines, I start work this afternoon and I have biblestudy this morning. Can't hang around here any longer.

Catch you all soon

Holiday and New Job

Well, it ahs been a while since I posted last. Most of you know what I have been up to anyway, but here is a recap.

My husband had a hernia repair almost three weeks ago now and he is still on the slow road to recovery. He will probably return to work next week but at present is making the most of living with a nurse.

We went off to Melbourne so he could have the surgery and I was supposed to be on holiday. Not really as he needed and expected 24 hour care. My first unbroken night was at the 10 day mark as he had needed some pain relief once or twice during the night. After 5 nights in East St Kilda we drove down to Phillip Island to use a time share there. It was a nice place, if a little old. In a great location and I didn't need to use the car much. I managed to escape for walks and some shopping (necessities mostly). Steve holed up inside and only managed to venture out a little on the final couple of days. We were visited by Ben and Bec and the kids and also Steve's mum and dad which was nice.

My second rotation began on Tuesday and I am slowly finding my feet in a new environment. Thankfully i get two weeks of orientation to help me work out what goes on when and my place in the team. I think that it will go well and fly past as the previous rotation did.

I will try to keep you all posted.

Update on nothing much

I suppose it is time I posted again, but I really haven’t much to report. I haven’t had a birthday, lost weight or got a new hair cut, so there is little here to excite anyone. Sorry!!!!
Work is going well and taking up too much of my week. I finish as a community nurse in 4 weeks. I will be very sad to leave as I really like it and I feel like this where I belong. Ah well in six months I can apply to return and I will have even more experience to offer.
I get two weeks holiday before starting at Beaconsfield District Hospital on the 2nd of August. I am sure that I will enjoy it and I am only doing 0.8 which means eight days a fortnight instead of 76 hours which is 9 and ½ days. The extra day and an ½ off will be good for the garden.

cars

Okay it is time I posted again. Hopefully if I write this in word and let it spell check for me and manage some paragraph divisions it will be more acceptable to all.

I seem to spend a great deal of my life in a car one way or another. I drive to work and back every day which takes about 40 minutes each way if I don’t have any errands to run on the way. When I get to work I get into another car, courtesy of the government and travel around visiting clients in their homes. I average around 30 kms in the work car daily.

Most of you know that I have finally bought a car that I like. My little sporty fiesta XR4 is great. I actually enjoy the drive into and out of town. I find it fun to watch the people that are staring at my racy little car. Steve thinks it could sound better; it is a little too quiet for his taste, but it still turns heads. I can hide inside and not be noticed as I have quite tinted windows.

Well up until this week I was driving a very ordinary Holden Viva station wagon while at work which smelled of pickled onions for some unknown reason. This car was rejected by one of the other nursing rounds as it was not very nice to drive at all. My manager sent an email to tell me it was to be replaced this week, and when the new car arrived, I got to move all the stuff over into it and farewell the Viva. I took possession of the new “grad” car on Tuesday, a Hyundai i30. Although Korean cars aren’t highly thought of this one is much nicer to drive than the Holden. The only drawback is the overwhelming new car smell. Ah well you can’t have everything.

Work Work and more work

Yep, that is really all the I have done recently. I love my job, but it gets a bit monotonous getting up at six every day to make breakfast, lunch and then hurry off to work by 7:30. My first client has been arriving at the clinic by then for a dressing and I have had to be there too. It is not light when I leave and it isn't light when I get home most nights either. I really don't enjoy that part of winter at all, I also don't like the cold. I wear a fleecy jacket over my uniform and I keep on having to shed it and put it on all day long. People's homes are usually warm and then I have to go outside again. My car doesn't like frost either. There is some sort of sensor on it that causes a yellow snow flake to light up if it goes below 4 degrees and then a red one if it is below 0. I think it is scared I will crash it if there is ice around. I was laughing at Steve last week, as I used to have to clear frost off the car and his was safely in the carport, now my car is newer, I have the carport and he has frosty windows. Then I got to work and had to scrape the frost off the work car. Poetic justice?

Well this would make a great ad for the West Coast of Tasmania at Easter wouldn't it? This was taken one evening while Em and Rob attempted to catch fish in the surf. Sadly unsuccessful at the fishing they still look great at sunset.