First post..new blog!

Welcome!

I decided to start a fresh new blog in a new place because I feel that I needed a fresh start. My old blog was started while completing my basics for nursing school, a few posts during nursing school, etc. Then, I stopped blogging. Ah…I love my old blog, but I needed something new. So, so here I am!!

A little about me. I am a new grad RN, working in a large ER. I am not sure what the time frame is for calling yourself a new grad. But, it has been less than a year, so I think I can still use the new grad title. Although, according to my co-workers, you do not count as staff for the first 6 months. I am almost at my 6 month mark. I can tell a difference in the way my co-workers act towards me now. They know that I am crazy strong enough to stick it out and not give up. Apparently many nurses have not stayed.

In a way, I wish I would have started a blog when I first began working. You know, when I was all wide-eyed and innocent about how nursing truly is. Ready to save the world! In school, I only had 1-2 patients! Whoohoo! Ah….the memories.

Not that I do not remember the days of nursing school and orientation. But, those days seem like such a long time ago. I was all wide-eyed and innocent. Now, I am trudging my way through the craziness that is nursing, esp. in Emergency nursing.

So, I decided to start a blog about the things in my life now. How things have changed! Although I do become cranky and well, disgruntle, I love going to work and I learn something new every day.

So, stay tuned! I have 6 months of stuff to write about! It took me a few weeks to get to the point of posting this first one, but I am sure that now I have actually started blogging again, I will be inspired!