For all you nurses out there...

It just doesn't seem like Thanksgiving with 85 degrees, sun, and palm trees! So, I thought some of you out there might be wondering how the actual work is going out here (no, it's not all just fun on the beach). Well, I was bumped to day shift, which is fine by me...but, day shift begins at 5:45AM!! (AKA Crazy Early) I have to wake up at 4:45. However, we get to leave at 6:15PM, so it pays of in the end. The unit only has 16 beds which includes some rooms with more than one bed. So, the unit itself is pretty small...just one long hallway. The hospital is up on a hill, so from our floor (the 7th), you can see the ocean! I had three days of orientation, which actually, I'm feeling pretty good about. The difficult part is learning all of their computerized charting, etc. They do EVERYTHING through a computer system, including orders, meds, etc. and rely a lot on their doctors to put orders in, admit and discharge patients, blah, blah, blah. We'll see how it goes Monday when I'm on my own! :) Sorry no new pictures-- I'm going to try to get out and do something fun this weekend and maybe go to Pearl Harbor later this week when I'm not working. Happy Thanksgiving!