Hey there. Updating on how things are going, all through with the silliness now. (I promise) (actually, no i don't hehe). So I got this new job on a cardiac ward, and I've been there about two weeks now. It's really quite good. My brain is throbbing from all the new information it is desperately trying to absorb, I'm having to go back to the textbook and relearn in great detail all my cardiac stuff, as well as all new things like angiograms and ecgs and femoral sheaths (which i think sounds dodgy, but actually its just the tube the put in people's legs i.e. their femoral artery when they do an angiogram). It's all a great new challenge, and what's really good is the job is less physically demanding than surgical. Very little showering or helping people up and down or wiping bottoms. Almost every patient is independent with these things, just has a dodgy heart that needs to be monitered closely!

So I've got eight months total here and then I move onto cardiothoracic, which is where patients go after they've had heart or lung surgery. So that WILL be very physically demanding, and mentally demanding. so it will be interesting to see what morale is like amongst the nurses there. On CCU where I am now, morale is very high and there is a very positive team environment. They're all making me feel very welcome, which is so important. I'm coping with the commute as well, it's not as bad as I thought it would be (but, things very rarely are as bad as I think they will be), and it's kind of nice being in the big smoke everyday, that's something I used to miss. Although it was a bit depressing, on Saturday I worked an evening shift and they let me go early because there were only 6 patients and I'm supernumerary at the moment, and driving through town at 10.30 watching all the partygoers all dressed up and having fun.. I was like "i dont want to go home! let's go party!" but of course, i was alone in the car talking to myself, and i promptly replied to myself with 'don't be silly, you'll look stupid dancing alone in bars in your nurse's uniform!" so i obediently drove myself home without another word.