A takeaway

Happy Monday!

    For people who work on weekends, Mondays aren't necessarily bad. Today was a great day off. A solid start to the week.

    One thing that I have taken away from the last month at my new job is kind of a dichotomy. I have realized what great experience I've already had as a nurse. BUT, I have also realized that there are so many things that I have left to learn.

During classroom orientation, I was with a bunch of new grads starting their first job. Their comments were similar to mine a year ago, "This is the longest day ever..." "Don't they know we were just in nursing school?" Etc... After a year of being a new nurse, I am more humble now than I was then. I am very aware of my own limitations. I was very grateful to have experienced nurses talk to us about things that are tricky or tough to deal with. I realize that I will always be learning and one year of experience doesn't do the trick.

On the flip side, there are things that I dealt with at my previous job that have given me an edge. For one thing, I have knowledge about EKGs and cardiac related things that the other nurses on my unit might not have dealt with for a long time. Also, my previous unit had a crazy variety of patients. I dealt with patient situations that were critical or unique. I feel like I can find a way to deal with whatever comes my way because that's how I operated for the last 10 months.

I guess that my main point is whether you're a new grad or have been a nurse for 35 years, you have something to offer. Now in my attempt to be philosophical, I am going to venture out and say that this can apply to other areas of life. You can learn something from anyone. (I just laughed at myself for typing that. I've become a cheese-ball.) In 1 Timothy, it talks about not letting anyone look down on you because you're young. I always liked that verse as a young person, and as I become an old(er) person, I hope I will still like that verse. Now that I've bored you with your philosophy lesson for the day, I'm going to make some dinner, put on my pj's way too early, read a good book, and hit the hay early tonight.

Thanks for making it this far. Unless you're a skimmer. That doesn't count. Go back and read it. You could learn something ;)

Love,
C