It's 1 PM and I've already been in the hospital for about 6 hours after going on a date last night until 10...boy am I tired. But anyway, I got to blog about this because I need as much in put as possible. I have to choose my capstone project in a week or so and I need feedback. A capstone is what I will be doing for my 4th and final semester of nursing school. It is where you choose a unit or department to work in for 20 hours a week under a preceptor, and the unit should be a place where you are going to work in for awhile after you graduate. This is hard to do since I won't even start my labor and delivery rotation until mid October. Before nursing school, I thought I would be a Labor & Delivery nurse because I had such a good experience with my oldest sister Sarah having kids and being there for one of the deliveries. But I've really enjoyed many other aspects of the medical field as well, like emergency/trauma.
Up until this semester, I decided I would put the emergency department in a Trauma I hospital as my first choise (aka University Hospital). But this morning, I assessed an 18 month old girl with as puffy/voluminous hair as I had when I had that age and would dance when I started tickling her. She was the cutest little girl I have ever seen, just giggling at everything we did. Then for an hour I cuddled a cerebral palsy 11 month old failure to thrive baby who was barely 12 pounds. She curled up and dug herself into the side of my neck and arms and would only calm down when I held her. (then again I was the only person not poking her and grabbing her hehe) I LOVE infants and young children. Do I want to do my capstone in Infant Medical/Surgical Unit? Do I want to work in the Neonatal ICU? Do I want to work in pediatrics? Labor & Delivery? Emergency for adults? (Because there is no way I am doing pedatric emergency-too sad.) Or some other area I haven't really thought of? I need help! If YOU were a nurse, where would you work? And given my personality, where do you think I should work? Any input would be greatly appreciated because I am torn!
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I was thinking about you yesterday as Mabes and I went for our walk (the weather here is lovely, by the way--think going from Florida-level heat and humidity over the weekend to breezy, non-humid 72 degrees the past 3 days!). I certainly can't tell you what you should do, but I'll offer my opinion, though it may be longwinded (shocking!) so maybe I'll just call you tonight or tomorrow? Let me know when you're around!
Wow, a toughie. I don't think any of them would be a bad choice for you, but which one to go with? The ER sounds exciting, but I think it could be a downer, since you'd be confronted with the seamier side of life a lot. I think you said you've seen "Trauma, Life in the ER" on the Learning Channel? Maybe it's time to rewatch an episode or two. Good luck!
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