The crazy work week.

This week has been bad for my work.

Sunday: off
Monday: off
Tuesday: inservice at work 1200 to 1330, work from 1330 to 0700 on Wednesday morning :( 19.5 hours in total.  Wow.
Wednesday: work from 2300 to 0700
Thursday: off
Friday: work from 2300 to 0700
Saturday: work from 2300 to 0700.

And I'll work Sunday night as well.  Usually I just work from 1500 to 0700 on Tuesday and Thursday and every other weekend, but my lovely unit coordinator screws up my schedule all the time.  Even though she's the one who decided to have me work Tuesday, Thursday, and every other weekend.  Gah!

The only positive thing from this is the big payoff when I get my paycheck.  She's taking my time from my dear husband away and I don't appreciate it.  I can't always put my life on hold for work.

Relieved!

Oh I'm relieved!  I applied to the job a little over a week ago at the same hospital the MedStud does rotations at.  It's a child and adolescent psych position.  They haven't rejected me!  Hope does help!

I would love this job for multiple reasons: it's 15 minutes from my house versus 40 minutes like my current job.  I would work at the hospital he does rotations at and be able to see him!  Plus he is interested in specializing eventually in child and adolescent psych, and I think it would be awesome to work with him in this area.  My dream is that he will become a child/adolescent psychiatrist and I will get my psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner, and we would have a practice together.  That.  Would.  Be.  Awesome.

The only thing though...I've never worked with kids before, and I'm scared I wouldn't like it.  I'm going to call the nurse recruiter tomorrow morning to see if she received my application and see if I could come shadow a nurse there for a few days to see if I would like it.  I really, really hope I would.

Missing My MedStud

I work 16 hour night shifts twice a week and and 8 hour night shift once a week.  I didn't get to see the MedStud from 8/9/11 at 0730 to 8/10/11 at 1400.  I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but I have only one real friend here and am by myself a lot, so it gets lonely.  Plus he is studying like a maniac for the Pharmacology test on Friday, so that takes even less time away.  On my birthday, he only had about two hours he could spend with me because of school, studying, and preceptorship.  I really miss him.  I know it's only going to get harder the further we get into this.

I've been trying to be a better wife; you know, doing the dishes, laundry, cooking dinner, etc. so that all he has to worry about is studying, eating, and sleeping.  It's hard, but worth it, because of the benefit added study time will give him.  I've heard it said that medical student families are the secret weapon behind the MedStuds, because of what they do for them in the background.  So stay strong families!  Remember what your end goal is and why your MedStud is doing this!

I highly recommend having a dream board somewhere in your house.  This is a board that has pictures and goals on it that remind you of your dreams and how to achieve them.  My dream board has a couple goals:

1. Get a PRN med/surg, ICU, or ER job.  This will accomplish my greater goal of being able to pay of loans sooner.

2. Write letters to my dad and brother.  This accomplishes the greater goal of having better family relationships.  

3. Read 8 books before the end of the year.  This accomplishes my greater goal of finishing all the hundreds of books on my list and learning more.

The MedStud has a dream board, but I think he doesn't pay attention to it, sadly.  He keeps his goals in his head.