Penis Blood

I got penis blood in my face last month.

I'm know, again, that I am immune to Hep B.

The patient didn't have anything bad either.

The other two nurses were not immune to Hep B, so they are getting the vaccination series now.  They thanked me.

It still freaks me out a little.  You know how many sharps I poke into people bodies everyday?

A lot.

"Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wing." Psalm 17:8

Six Months

This morning the manager comes to me during report and tells me she has a paper for me to sign in her office before I go home.

It was my permanent employment papers.  Like what I've been doing for the last six months was provisional employment.

So, yeah, I get to keep my job. =)

Totally didn't realized that until this morning when I signed the paper.

She said I didn't act like a new nurse.

"What does that mean?"
"It's a complement."
"Thanks!"

Six months.  Wow.

"Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise." Psalm 33:3

Best Memories of 2012

Best memories of 2012:

• Playing around on an internet dating website, and meeting my boyfriend of almost 10 months now,
• Graduating from nursing school with my friends,
• Visiting my grandma in Ohio,
• Getting a phone call about getting my first job while I was there,
• Going to the West Side Market with my cousins and Grandma,
• Coming out of the NCLEX and not being able to hide my excitement from my Dad because I knew I had just passed the most important test of my life thus far,
• Starting my first real job,
• Getting my first paycheck,
• Recognizing my patient was having a stroke right in front of me,
• Thanksgiving,
• Christmas Eve,
• Christmas,
• New Years Eve.

"For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised." Psalm 96:4

"Everyday I will bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.... They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness." Psalm 145:2 and 7

Blood

You know what's amazing to me.  The human body.  Specifically the blood.

Isn't it amazing!?

It's so cool that one second you can stick an IV catheter in someone's hand and infuse fluids into them, and the next second you can pull it out and hold pressure for a minute and the hole clots off and doesn't bleed.  It's cool that you can poke a hole in someone's body and then a minute later the hole is closed.  Clotting factors are amazing.

Jesus said, "Whose eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:54.

Day 2 Of Orientation

The second day of orientation is over.  It's been a lot of listening to people talk.

In the last two days we learned about sexual harassment, drug administration, benefits, back injury, and how to operate the hospital beds, etc.

It's been stimulating...

Four of my friends from school are in orientation with me, so that is really nice!

The first day of orientation the guy told us we were hired out of 5,000 applications. 5,000.  God is good!

There are about 35-ish RNs, LPNs, and CNAs in orientation; it's a pretty big class.

"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that reveiveth it." Revelation 2:17