my new adventure

As many of your know, I started in January at a brand new hospital in NW Las Vegas as an RN on a med/surg floor. I had taken about 11 months off while we made the move down here and I gave birth to Mr. T. It was hard to have to leave the hospital I loved in Spokane where I had worked my first 4 years at. The transition to working in Las Vegas was a tough one. I had originally hoped to work on base when we got here but was told that only full time positions were available. Well, after getting to know a fellow preschool mom who worked as an active duty RN, she encouraged me to look into a position again and so I contacted the civilian hiring agency. The had a per diem (as needed / supplemental type position) available in one of the clinics at one of the hospitals on base. I was interviewed and hired last month. I resigned from my position at the new hospital and was glad to close that chapter in my nursing career. I am excited about the new opportunities available to me in clinic nursing. Also, I love the education aspect of nursing and I will get to spend more time doing this with patients. I think I will probably miss the excitement and high speed part of the hospital setting, but we shall see.
Another interesting part of this job change is that I will be working for the military. They do things a bit differently than the civilian world so I have a lot to learn!

To update you on Miss M's pink eye - Aunt D reported to me that she was warm and lethargic all day while I was gone. Also, she totally lost her appetite and didn't even want to eat fruit salad at lunch (one of her all time favorite things to eat). Turns out she has a fever of 101.7! So, we our keeping an eye on her and giving her lots of tylenol and continuing the eye drops.