Longest Pause Ever!

I can't believe it has been over a month since my last post. So much has been happening in every area of my life I don't even know where to begin!

I guess I'll start with work, cause that's the quickest. I have been working on the Mother/Infant Unit for over a month now. I have been taking on the full load with minimal help from my preceptor. Our unit has been extremely busy. Apparently 8-10 months ago a lot of people conceived babies because I have four patients every single day. (and when I say four, I really mean eight because we have babies too). It has been really fun. I really absolutely one hundred percent LOVE my job. Praise God for providing me with a great job that I can actually be excited about waking up at 530 am and going to.

I have been learning so much and becoming more comfortable with my assessment skills, teaching patients, and taking telephone orders from doctor's and talking to doctor's. Our residents are really cool and they aren't mean at all (yay!).

However, I am still SUPER uncomfortable teaching my mother's how to breastfeed. It's a very hard skill (not just the act of breastfeeding but teaching really dumb people to do it). Okay okay it's quite harsh for me to call them dumb, but I don't know any other adjective for someone who can't comprehend what I am saying to them. I mean it's not hard to follow directions. I think I just need experience teaching and I need to follow a lactation nurse so I can really learn more.

Tomorrow I will be taking my Newborn Assessment class. I am really excited about it. Not that I don't already know how to assess my newborns but I think I will learn a lot of how to use my assessments to make decisions about newborn care. I just really love my job and I love that I don't only take care of mother's and babies, but I also get to care for our Antepartum patients (still pregnant). West is the only Mount Carmel hospital where their Mother Infant Unit also takes high risk Antepartums. I will be taking my external fetal monitoring class soon which will help me assess how my babies inside mommies are doing.

Our Maternity Center also just became a Level III. Which basically means our Special Care Nursery has become a Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit, our Labor and Delivery won't transfer our high risk patients to OSU and Mother/Infant will be taking care of more high risk patients too.

I have many more stories but I need to get some shut eye. Tomorrow I will hopefully update you on other areas of my life. I love everyone and miss you all!