A lot to tell...

Hola muchachos! Well...I still like San Francisco. It's very diverse and I like that. I've met some cool people and have had alot of fun so far!

The job situation is a little different, though... First of all, this unit has not had a for real manager in over 3 years. They just keep having interim people come in and quit after a month or two because the place is so disorganized. The "manager" that's there right now is a traveler... Anyway, working in an unorganized unit is starting to wear on my nerves just a tad. Also, this place calls themself a Level III nursery, but they most certainly are not. The usual assignments are 3:1 feeder-growers, so I am usually just baby sitting and feeding babies every night. That's cool every now and then, but usually I'm bored.

Next subject: The state of travel nursing. Well, as we all know, the economy is SUPER shitty. That's affected job markets across the board...including nursing. Hospitals are having to cut back their budgets and travel/contract nurses are expensive, so they're the first things to be cut. Long story short...travel nursing jobs have become few and far between. (As well as permanent staff jobs) I'm afraid it'll only get worse before it gets better. I know of a couple people that are currently unemployed because they haven't been able to find another travel job to go to. And I just can't let that be me. For one thing, I can't afford to be jobless...

For the past several weeks I have been wrestling with a decision to get a permanent job or to continue to try my luck in the travel game. I've been back and forth and around again. Then...early Saturday morning, while I was doing a baby's care, the answer came to me...get a permanent job again.

Sooooooooooooooo..........I got my old job back at VCH!!!! I've missed it. The people, the acuity...just about everything. I'll be starting the week of April 6th, so I'll see you guys soon!! In the meantime, I'm gonna keep living it up in Frisco and try to make the most of my remaining 6-7 weeks...

Dueces..

A couple more pics...

Pics...

Here are a couple of pics of me and some of my co-workers/friends I've made...

I'm such a slacker....

New Pics and Updates coming soon... Maybe tomorrow, but I ain't makin any promises...

I heart San Francisco...

Hola muchachos!! I am LOVIN San Francisco!! I went sightseeing yesterday when I got off work. I stayed up for like 28 hours straight! What was I thinking? I had a blast, though! I went around with my first San Francisco friend, Gokul. He's my new Indian brother. Tee hee... We had so much fun going around the city being goofballs. That's the best way to be, right?

The hospital I'm working in is pretty cool, but it's like feeder-grower city in there and apparently the norm is to have 3-to-1s....blah. There was an intubated baby the other night and he got extubated to CPAP before the end of the shift. Ho-hum... I like a NICU with a little action happening...or at least with a couple of big, fat trach babies! Other than that, everybody is VERY nice and helpful...TOTALLY opposite of the crazies in New Orleans!

California Dreamin...

So...I'm on my way to San Francisco!! I'm VERY excited about it. I'm praying that i'll have a MUCH better experience than I did in New Orleans. So far the journey has been kinda stinky, though. The Nashville airport had a hellacious line this morning and I almost missed my flight. I had to literally run to my gate...which was like the farthest one in the whole airport. Since I was late, I had to sit in the back...between people. The guy to my left smelt like cheese or something. Maybe he was farting...I don't know. It was stankin and I was miserable.

Now I'm stuck in the San Diego Airport. WORST. AIRPORT. EVER. As my Granny would say, "it's tee ninechy," meaning it's WAY too small. All the damn Southwest flights are running behind, so there are pissed off people laying around EVERYWHERE. I was sitting on the floor for a while, but I finally got a seat. Now I'm just a'waitin...

*sigh*

New Orleans...a reflection...

Ummmm...it SUCKED.