Learning The Ropes

Well I am happy to say that I am definitely earning a little independence in my current working environment. I now know how to put in orders for in patients to come down and go back to their rooms, I know how to use the computer system to write out preliminary reports, and I also know how to check up on patient transportation back to their room. I learned how to partially use the ultrasound machines to do the studies also. All in all, I am very excited and happy when I come home instead of tired and fatigued. Don't get me wrong, I'm still tired and fatigued, but I'm excited due to a majority of my brain cells getting used throughout the day instead of getting discarded due to previous jobs.

Breakfasts seem to be my most difficult challenge. I went to work without having breakfast for 2 days and by the time 2 o'clock hit, I was completely utterly starving and ready to pass out and go to sleep. So yesterday morning, I decided to eat a bowl of cereal at 6 a.m. in the morning which lasted about as well as not eating anything at all did in the morning. By the time 2 p.m. hit, I was, yet again, completely starving. Finally, I think I found the correct combination. I end up having a small breakfast burrito in the morning with 2 cups of coffee to sustain me until 2 p.m.. Then once that is accomplished, I have a small bowl of ramen, or a salad and a baked potato at Wendys, OR a frozen Lean Cuisine for lunch to hold me over until dinner. When 6pm hits, I'm not hungry because of my handy water bottle that I sip on throughout the day. That helps a lot. So I just eat to sustain myself until I head to sleep. Then the cycle starts over again. I never thought that eating regularly would kick in now all of a sudden. In previous jobs, I would forget to eat and go until 2 p.m. and not even notice that food has not entered my stomach since the previous night. It may be all the thinking that I have to do all day PLUS the running around trying to get transportation down for patients that's making me hungrier. Any thoughts on the subject would be helpful! I never thought that this would be the hardest thing for me to learn, but that has proven to be the case.

I am looking forward to scanning patients for the first time by the end of the week. I will keep y'all posted when that happens. Chow!