Where are the Pediatric Nurses at This Site?

[oldntiredRN]

Dear Edson,
I hope your sitting down reading this. I, for the past 5 months have been dabbling in primary care. I love it. Another temp position. You know the drill and my numerous posted frustrations with the nursing world of acute bedside care. At this clinic, we have one peds RN and a busy peds clinic. Well naturally the peds RN gets time off, so when she is out, all us (4) adult RN's have to cover for her. I was shaking in my sneakers. I didn't have to escort any little people into the exam rooms- we have techs that do that. I did have to triage and answer the parents questions via phone. Long story short- now, I ( oldntired RN of 30yrs all adult bedside acute care in the nursing world) am being moved to peds. My job was only to be 6 months and now I have been extended another 6 months with the possibilty of it becoming permenant. Who would have ever thought. Me and Peds. The pay is bad.( I have to get another per deim job- maybe home care- not peds though) But I love the job ( the primary care) and my co-workers. I'm scared to death about the peds. So far the parents have not chewed me a new one.( I sound like their mother and grandmother on the phone) Will keep you posted.

[oldntiredRN]

Edson: I've been reading your posts above. I'm hanging on every pearl as a baseline. It's been 30years since I had a peds class not counting my own 3 who are all adults now. I hope I don't have to give any meds, but you can bet I'll be asking one of the peds docs or the other RN and then be like santa checking his list.

[MarieAnderson]

Thanks for the reply. I am a hospice nurse right now. Unfortunately the company I work for doesn't take pediatric patients, so I don't know how it is to deal with children who are dying. I guess one question you might be able to answer is, I'm a guy, thinking of going into pediatrics. During my peds clinicals, I was actually reassigned from a little girl because her mother didn't want a guy to be caring for her, especially alone behind a curtain. Do you come across this often with other male nurses?

Oh my. They must know that we are here to take care of them and we are "professionals"...

[Edson!]

:thumpsup:

But I am sorry about the pay. Sigh. . . Hope all is going well with you regarding your peds position.

[afernandezrnbsn]

hello im getting ready to "start" studying for my CPN exam. any suggestions???

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