Changes

Wow, what an interesting past few moths this has been. Lots of changes going on. The hosptial is revamping, and that only means cutbacks on nursing. It always starts in the nursing department...there is a freeze going on right now, if you can even comprehend that one...no new hires, and the nurses that are leaving will not be replenished. Has anyone out there heard of a nursing shortage?? Well I suppose in this neck of the woods they just prefer to keep the beds full and the nurses short staffed. Big bucks rolling in I guess. It pretty much sucks...just me and Red were on the floor yesterday and they would not call anyone in....it just pissed off the docs royally since they are used to us being at thier beck and call. The hospital is losing Doctors, they are finding new jobs in better hospitals, losing management in all the major departments. Last week five Managers quit!!!

I just hope that all will calm down soon. Personally I think all this change is going to just make patient care worse....but that is not the bottom line in big buisiness!!

Coming around

I made it through the holidays, it has been tough with the new transition to Acute Med and my hours. The kids are feeling it, and the hubby too.
He hasn't been working since this summer, and I feel the weight is all on me. He is feeling the weight of being "housedad".
I entered Jr into wrestling, which is weekdays after school, so that has been keeping him busy and I noticed hubby is building a relationship with Jr slowly.
It must not be easy being a step parent, I have never done it, but I hear about it from my friends, and I suppose I need to be easier on DH.

I had a blast at work yesterday, our acutites were very low so we had some down time. One of the nurses that I work with ( I will call her Bee for sake of the blog) and I would having a good time, when one of our aides came to us and told us a rumor the both of us knew was true. (This fact was made known to only four people the day prior) however, knowing it was a secret we played stupid, like we didn't know anything.
After the aide left I told Bee, that the aide in particular knew the scoop on everyone, and that if you wanted to know about something all you would have to do is come to her.
We do live in a small town after all.
And so after much discussion between her and I we decided to come up with a rumor and see how fast it would spread. We decided to spread the rumor that wal-mart was coming to town. You see this has been up for much debate here, as we have no walmart, kmart, etc...you name it we dont have it. The small buisiness here vote it down. Some peple want it, some people dont. So we spread the rumor that it indeed was going to happen.
The aide in question was so excited, practically jumping for joy. Another aide was on the phone before we finished our sentence to find out if it was true from her "connection", who supposedly has all the inside of the goings on in this town....we left them to stew in the rumor..but we were grinning so hard we couldnt help ourselves.

I imagine this rumor will be all over town before the week is out.....but it was so much fun!

Background

Well, I am not new to the blogging world, but I took a much needed break and decided to do it once again. Any long time blogger knows that at some point the pressure to write, or people's comments can make blogging a job. Although I do have to admit, that just writing out your day, or even your fantasies, is an outlet, one that is most cathartic, for me anyway.
I must warn those of you who decided to frequent my blog(God only knows why), that if you take issue with poor spelling, grammar etc, this is not the blog for you. I am an educated woman and for the most part I will try to reflect it by reviewing what I write before I publish it, however, be forwarned, because when it comes right down to it...I dont give a shit.

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A little piece of my world, mother, wife, and nurse.....and how to pull it all together to make it work. Or rather, bear with it when it doesn't.