Our New Job

So we started our new job at the Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital or JFL for short.

 

Last week we were in hospital orientation all week. As many of you know that is a very long and boring week. There were about thirteen new hires and out of those ten had moved here from "the states" to work at JFL. They all had pretty much the same story, which helped us feel like we weren't so crazy for doing this. Of course I guess it could mean the opposite and we're all nuts. Anyway, everyone was super nice and was very happy to have us there. They keep warning us that it would probably be different that what we were use to and after yesterday I can see what they mean.

 

So yesterday was our first day on the floor and I started off by working day shift and then Terry came in on evenings. We are just on this schedule for our orientation to the NICU, then we'll go to 12 hour shift.  Obviously for HIPPA reasons and just because we know how hospitals can be I didn't take any picture of the inside of the hospital, but it was very different and disorienting. I'm not saying it was bad, it's just weird after working in the same place for so long how hard it is to even focus in such a different environment. Everyone was really nice and they are all caring for the babies and the goals are the same as it was when we worked at Lutheran but it's so different. I don't want you to get the wrong idea, it's not bad different, just different. The Neonatologist is great. I went to a C-section with her. Just her and I so she explained to me what the nurses do.... ;)