stuart is finishing up his last week of internal medicine on the wards of UAMS. he's liking this much better than the similar rotation he did at the VA a few weeks back. i like it, too, because he comes to visit me on my floor at work a few times a day :) this week is my last week of orientation, so next week i start as a real, big-girl nurse! my schedule will be changing, too. i have been doing w/th/f every week, but starting next week it will be different each week. i guess it will be nice to have a change in my routine (?? not really - i'm kinda bummed that i won't have a set schedule every week. oh, the hardships of being the new girl.)
the last few weeks at work, i've mainly been rocking in the IV start department, so that's been fun! usually a nurse will call someone else to come help if their patient seems to be a "hard stick," so often they will call my preceptor since they know that she has a little more free time since i am doing all the work to take care of her patients these days ;) but the last few weeks, she has called me to try and start the IV so i could get some experience. i've gotten all of them on the first stick! i even had a patient tell me i was "good at that." a nice, new-nurse ego boost.
next week stuart starts family medicine, which will be based in pine bluff. so, he'll be in pine bluff staying with his parents m-f for the next 4 weeks. there are a few weeks that my work schedule has me off for a few days in a row, so i'll go down with him and maybe work for pop in his office those days. family medicine will be a nice change of pace - mostly 8-5pm hours, no weekends (we think).
we've been up to so much these last few weeks (i've just neglected blogging about it... oops) and i have a bunch of photos to put up! i'll start with one event and save the rest for later.
earlier in october, little rock hosted the harvest festival on kavanaugh in hillcrest (this is our neighborhood). jenna and colin came up from pine bluff, and derek and beth brought ozzie out and we spent the day out in our neighborhood celebrating fall with a street festival.
there were street vendors selling locally-made things and good food.
we had lunch at u.s. pizza on kavanaugh.
us at u.s. pizza. :)
beth and derek at u.s. pizza.
beth enjoying some kettle corn and local music.
music on kavanaugh. me, jenna, colin.
ozzie pup snuggling with stuart.
jenna and stuart at the fountain on kavanaugh.(these cousins could be TWINS!)
more recent events (and photos) to come...!
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