After a great last day at Pelican Valley, which included a very nice surprise get-together (with ice cream cake), I got my CA license in the mail! Shortly thereafter, I had a brief phone conversation with my nurse manager, Beverly. She had a chance to look at my resume today and was impressed and we were able to talk about some of my experiences (sweet!) She informed me that volunteers do 3 12-hour shifts per week and VSC prefers we work day shifts (NICE! Never going to get that again!)
She told me about the 8th floor. It is a 36 bed floor for Adult Surgical/Trauma patients. It is a level 1 trauma center, but they only stabilize Peds. The RN to Patient Ratio is typically 1:5 (Yowza). They do not take vents. They are switching to E-Charting and they just implemented a new computer system to look up research articles and Evidence-Based practice.
My very good friend, fellow VSC West volunteer and RN Holly Thompson will also be on that floor; however, Beverly said she is going to see if one of us can be placed on the 7th floor. She told me about it briefly. It is a telemetry unit that does take vents and oncology. Kind of a wild mix, but awesome. Both floors sound good-personally I'd prefer the 7th floor, but will be very happy and will learn a ton on either floor.
One week and I fly out. I have a lot to do to prepare.
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