Halfway There
Or at least I will be after today.
My prac is going pretty well. The evaluations I've gotten from the nurses I've been working with have all been positive - this is not to say there hasn't been constructive criticism but overall they seem pleased with me. My facilitator is happy with me as well, and I'm learning a lot. The CCU isn't as terrifying as I pictured it but that my be because it's more of a high dependency unit than a proper cardiac unit or even a critical care unit. This is not to say there aren't patients who have heart problems, or who are quite ill but there are no ventilators or anything incredibly complex. I have decided to continue on in the CCU, with my facilitator pulling me off to do things in the ED when they come in, like catheterizations or watch an insertion of a chest tube.
I am also nearly through the backlog of items in my feed reader. I did delete a whole bucketload of posts from a few blogs without reading them, but they were science and gossip sites that post many times in one day and together totalled over 200 posts. Yeah, I don't have that kind of time.
The worst thing about this week has been not seeing the kids. I am on evening shifts from 3pm-11pm, although I've had 2 days where I've done 1pm-9pm owing to debriefings. Sure I complain that I rarely get time to myself, but this is too much time. Miss Thing and Sparky leave around 7am for the bus to go to work/school respectively, and while I have been taking them this week I don't see them until the next morning. Her Majesty has been wanting to go to her before school program all week because she loves riding the minibus to school, so I drop her off after 8am and again don't see her until the next morning. Since her before and after school program is connected with Clive's day care I drop Clive off at the same time. He's still quite sad when I leave - still a Mama's Boy - and so I won't see him smiling at me until the next morning. And I miss them so much. I guess I'm not such a terrible mother after all if all this time without them is not sitting quite right. I wouldn't mind an evening shift now and again, but it's not something I'd want to do a lot of.
And now off to scare up a photo for Photo Friday, since it's only just dawned on me what day is actually is.
2 Witty Remarks:
I am glad it is going so well. Like all scary things, it isn't nearly as bad as you pictured it.
No surprise that they have good things to say about you - you are, after all, my daughter.
It also isn't surprising that you miss the kids. There are trade off's with the whole working Mother thing. Luckily I didn't have to work nights very often - when I did, you kids were what I missed the most.
Keep us posted.
I miss the kids when I don't see them - BUT - as soon as I see them I wish I was somewhere else!!!
Must be good to be those people who have the help bring them in to see you and take them away again!
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