A Real Nurse

That's what I am going to be!  I FINALLY got a job, and I am really excited about the position.  I am going to be working on the Stepdown Unit at Carle, the big hospital in the area.  Stepdown is an intermediate floor between the ICU and a Med/Surg floor.  The patients are a little more acute than a regular floor, but not bad enough to warrant ICU status.  The Surgical ICU and the Stepdown unit are run by the same Nurse Manager and in two years will be moving to one unit, so eventually I will work in the Surgical ICU as well.  I will be working three 12 hour shifts.....nights.  At first I was pretty against working nights, but I have gotten used to the idea and am actually excited about it.  I think it will allow me to see Rudy more when I do have to work (but I might be a zombie, haha.) I am particularly excited about working on this floor because it allows you to self schedule, which means I can get days off when I need to without having to take vacation time.  It looks like I will be starting on April 18th.  There is a March 21st start date, but we won't have anyone to watch Rudy until the beginning of April, since Josh has such a crazy month.  That will give me a little bit of time to adjust to the idea of going back to work and will let us get some things done first! 

I am not looking forward to leaving my little man, but am very relieved to have finally found a job and excited to be a real nurse!