Today, I shadowed a nurse at Missouri Baptist in a surgical inpatient unit (a post-op unit that seems to function as one step down from an ICU). She had five patients (most of them elderly and one 21-years-old) and I got to follow her around during the busiest part of the day. Some things I saw her do: pass out medications, take vitals, chart on Epic, give a suppository, apply ointment in “unseemly places.”
Moral of the story, I enjoyed the experience much more than I thought I would. I still want to work with babies; if plans A, B, C, D, E, and F fail, Surgical Inpatient would probably be my plan G (approximately).
Sounds cool! If your plan A is to working with babies, what are the plans B,C,D,E,and F?