As I move on: Lessons Learned in Pediatrics
According to my Facebook memories, 3 years ago today we had a lecture on pediatrics in nursing school. I was floored! Something that combined both my love for children, education, and medicine. I have 3 work days left after spending the last 1 year and 10 months working as a Triage/Advice/Care Coordinator RN in a pediatric clinic. It is bittersweet. I desperately want to be more hands on, while I love the population I work with and will miss it dearly (hence leaving one foot in the door by moving to relief so I can fill in sometimes). I know that moving to hospital nursing is in many ways necessary for my career, my skills, and my confidence as an RN. I know that just working the 2 LONG days will give me much needed time to continue my education to be a family nurse practitioner. I know that in just 1.5 years I will walk those pediatric halls again as a FNP student, and complete my pediatric training alongside my friends and mentors there. Maybe, just maybe, I will eventually work ther