stream of consciousness, mid-orientation

Well, hello.

It’s Wednesday, which is the halfway point of week 2 (out of three) weeks of orientation.

And that means we are actually halfway through orientation as a whole.  Woohoo!

I am getting tired of so many hours of sitting in a chair, listening to presentations. 

My body is not used to this, and I feel stir-crazy. I walk on breaks, I take the stairs up and down on lunch breaks but MAN, it’s still a lot of sitting. 

I am not the only one feeling it because one day, a fellow orientee was doing countertop pushups in the back of the classroom on break, and I joined her. 

I did have time for a walk when I got home yesterday, and I found a very large mushroom. 

I felt better after moving my body! 

Back to the hospital…I added some cats to my name card.

More cat representation….my little cat beverage bottle (a gift from Lisey).

My Snoopy lunchbox has been catching people’s eye; I even saw someone smile at it from their car when I was walking through the parking garage yesterday. Snoopy is almost universally appealing. 🙂 

We had a closed-notes EKG strip exam on Monday morning, and it was an old-fashioned paper test. None of us felt great about it, but we only have to get an 80% to pass, and if we don’t pass, we just have to do some remediation.

But obviously, we all would prefer not to have assigned remediation. 

I think we get our exams back today, soooo…I’ll let you know in tomorrow’s post.

Sometimes when I take an exam, I comfort myself by thinking things like, “Well, I don’t have to tell anyone if I fail to pass.”

But then I remember that I absolutely, positively never move in silence, and that I will tell the whole internet how my EKG exam went, for better or for worse. 

The person responsible for spilling the tea about me: ME. Always me.

What else am I thinking about?

Pink!

You know the link from the Mean Girls movie: “On Wednesdays, we wear pink!” Well, apparently the girls on my unit have unofficially started wearing pink on Wednesdays (but without the mean girl energy!) 

There are five of us in orientation together, all former techs on our unit, so we are wearing pink today. Unfortunately, I have no pink scrubs (yet!), so I am wearing a plain pink t-shirt with neutral scrub pants. 

The t-shirt I’m wearing today, although obviously not with jeans!

I guess I’m gonna go on the hunt for some pink scrubs soon. 😉 

This is the closest thing I have to pink

I love my co-workers. SERIOUSLY love them. 

We do have one male new grad nurse starting on our unit with us, but I don’t think he is planning to participate in the pink thing. Ha. 

Who knows, though? We may wear him down in time. 😉 

Today’s agenda promises to cover a lot of stuff that is actually very relevant for the patient population on my unit, so I’m hoping it will be a relatively interesting day.

And that is all the stream of consciousness I have time to dump here!

Wanna join me? You can do a little stream of consciousness in the comments if you’d like!