#sams adventures in peds

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I got my first IV on the first try! It was on my nurse preceptor 💃🏽! It was also Monday night and I'm just now telling y'all bc nightshift has me messed up lol.

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Image courtesy of Parker Gallery. 

PLAN ForYourArt: February 15–21

Thursday, February 15

Caravaggio — Part I, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 10–11:30am.

School of Music Visiting Artist Series: Jeff Beal, CalArts (Valencia), 2–4pm.

Lunar New Year Celebration, CalArts (Valencia), 3–6pm.

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, UCLA (Westwood), 5–8pm.

Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs Convention Center (Palm Springs), 5–9pm. $100. Through February 19.

Curator's Choice Lecture: Anthony Hernandez, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara), 5:30pm.

Garden Art Fair, CalArts (Valencia), 6–11pm.

Andrew Moore: Cuba: The Afterlife of Architecture, Annenberg Space for Photography (Century City), 6:30–8pm.

A Conversation With Jack Rutberg & Ariel Zuniga, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts (Fairfax), reception, 6:30pm; talk, 7:30pm.

Sexuality, Sanctity, and Censorship: A Conversation with Artist Ron Athey, Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm.

Creative Time: Super Secret Flag Party, Paper Chase Press (West Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Holding Court: Elizabeth Alexander & Robin Coste Lewis, The Underground Museum (Mid-City), 7–9pm.

The Dialectic of the Stars – Wrong Ped Xing, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) (Hollywood), 7–9pm.

Writing Now Reading Series: Kevin Young, CalArts (Valencia), 7–10pm.

Film Night: Tony DeLap, A Unique Perspective, Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach), 7pm.

SCREENINGS: The Untelling Detail, Hammer Museum (Westwood), 7:30pm. 

Film: Free Screening | The Party, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7:30pm.

Crotty Lecture - Civil Wars: A History in Ideas, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Anna Mayer: AS  I  SAY  DYING, AWHRHWAR (Highland Park), 8–10pm.

KCIA Presents: Wolf Woodcock, CalArts (Valencia), 10pm–12am.

Lukas Geronimas: Swallow Your World and Marley Freeman: Californienne, Parker Gallery (Los Feliz).

Modernism Week, various locations (Palm Springs), various times. Through February 25.

Friday, February 16

Christy Matson: Rock, Paper, Scissors and Time and Space: Abstractions from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art (Long Beach), 11am–5pm.

My Life in the Post Structure: A Discussion and Visualization with Kathryn Robinson and CO/WORK/PLAY with HEY BABY/a feminist parenting group, Human Resources (Chinatown), 12–4pm.

Curatorial Walkthrough Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, California African American Museum (Downtown), 1–2pm.

Special: Performance | Corazón del espantapájaros (Heart of the Scarecrow), LACMA (Miracle Mile), 4pm.

Film Today Screening: Raoul Peck's 'I Am Not Your Negro, CalArts (Valencia), 4:15pm.

Markus Amm and Shahryar Nashat: Image Is an Orphan, David Kordansky Gallery (Mid-City), 6–8pm.

Esmaa Mohamoud: Three Peat and Oreka James: If the other does not see me, I do see myself, ltd los angeles (Mid-City), 6–9pm.

Movie Nights at the Museum: I Am Not Your Negro, Los Angeles Poverty Department (Downtown), 7pm.

Logan Criley: One Thousand American Nights, As It Stands (Lincoln Heights), 7–10pm.  

Nasty Women & Bad Hombres, Beyond Baroque Foundation (Venice), 8pm.

Happy Tim Project and Gestalt, CalArts (Valencia), 8–10pm.

Saturday, February 17

Children's Workshop: Chinese Brush Painting: The Year of the Dog, The Huntington (San Marino), 9:30am. $15.

Sol LeWitt: Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser Gallery (Culver City), 10am–6pm. 

Hidden Narratives: Recent Acquisitions of Postwar Art, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 10am–7pm.

Chinese New Year Festival, The Huntington (San Marino), 10am–5pm.

WORKSHOP: Practice Practice: Milka Djordjevich, Pieter (Lincoln Heights), 12–3pm. $30.

Aware-LA/Alliance of White Anti Racists Everywhere/Saturday Dialogue, Human Resources (Chinatown), 1–4pm.

Talk: Exhibition Tour: A Universal History of Infamy—Those of This America, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1:30pm.

Mikey P and the Black Congress, CalArts (Valencia), 2–4pm.

Scott Covert: The Dead Supreme, Skidmore Contemporary Art (Santa Monica), 4–6pm.

Film: Mapa Teatro’s Project 24, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 4pm.

MEMORIES ON LOCATION, ESMoA (El Segundo), 4–7pm.

A Wine Tasting Event, Porch Gallery (Ojai), 4–7pm.

Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier & Neil Farber, Richard Heller Gallery (Santa Monica), 5–7pm.

SOUL RECORDINGS, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (Culver City), 5–8pm.

BIOPIX, Steve Turner (Hollywood), 6–8pm. 

Louise Bourgeois: The Red Sky, Mark Bradford: New Works, and Geta Brătescu: The Leaps of Aesop, Hauser & Wirth (Downtown), 6–9pm.

Birth Death Breath, laub, and Jennifer Moon, Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena), 6–8pm.

Sounds of L.A.: Cuba L.A., Getty Center (Brentwood), 7pm. Also February 18.

Sam Anderson: The Great Assumption on Saturday, JOAN (Downtown), 7–9pm.

The Basketball Exhibition, FATHOM (Downtown), 7–11pm.

WOR(L)D BEYOND: AURAL DIAMONDS IN MOTION: WILL ALEXANDER and BOBBY BRADFORD with ANDREW CHOATE, Beyond Baroque Foundation (Venice), 8pm.

Tashi Wada (performance), Human Resources (Chinatown), 8–10pm.

Sierra Boggess, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 8pm. $65–75.

Eve Beglarian: Play Like a Girl, REDCAT (Downtown), 8:30pm. $20–25.

Sunday, February 18

Workshop: Marks, Materials, Sense (toddler centered workshop) with Sarah Eggers, Intros & Space-Making | Playing Dough with Ching Ching Cheng, and CO/WORK/PLAY with HEY BABY/a feminist parenting group, Human Resources (Chinatown), 10am–2pm.

Madin Lopez, Project Q, ICA LA (Downtown), 11:30am.

Marvelous Fibers! A Fabric Marbling Workshop with Mimi Haddon, Craft & Folk Art Museum (Miracle Mile), 1–3pm. $60–70.

Drag Me Crazy, Ford Theatres (Hollywood), 2–8pm.  

Performances by Yoshiko Shimada & Tomorrow Girls Troop, Glendale Central Park (Glendale), 2–4pm.

RE:Formation of the Jewish Body, Dual (Bel-Air), 3pm.

Norman Klein, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA (Downtown), 3pm.

Art–Past–Present discussion series with artist Bari Ziperstein and Corinna Peipon, Wende Museum (Culver City), 4pm.

Home as Art, Art as Home: A panel discussion on J. B. Blunk's Hand-built Residence, Palm Springs Art Museum (Palm Springs), 5–7pm. $25.

Salon and Performance by Maurice Harris, California African American Museum (Downtown), 6–8pm.

“Adventures with You” Live Broadast (via KCHUNG Radio), Human Resources (Chinatown), 6–7pm.

Isaura String Quartet (performance), Human Resources (Chinatown), 8–10pm.

GiRL CRUSH Improv Class, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown).

Monday, February 19

High Desert Test Kitchen: Sustainability Soapbox, Copper Mountain Mesa Community Center (Joshua Tree), 7pm.

Foundations Of Touch, Women’s Center for Creative Work (Frogtown), 7:30–9:30pm.

Tuesday, February 20

Kori Newkirk and Joshua Haycraft, Pasadena City College (Pasadena), 11am–5pm.

Film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 1pm.

Community Potluck, Human Resources (Chinatown), 6–10pm.

Talk: Preserving Obsolescence, LACMA (Miracle Mile), 7pm.

East Asian Garden Lecture Series - The Introduction of Japanese Plants into North America, The Huntington (San Marino), 7:30pm.

Wednesday, February 21

Mikael B. Artist Reception & Mural Completion Party, Art Share LA (Downtown), 6–10pm.

The #MeToo Age: Power & Gender Equity in the Art World, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) (Hollywood), 7–9pm.

CAA Annual Conference, Los Angeles Convention Center (Downtown), various times. Through February 24. 

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Update:

First, acne sucks and it's at an all time high. Second, I started my dream job yesterday. I've been pretty busy since and a tad bored in the general hospital orientation (I've sat through one before). My orientation organizer hasn't contacted anyone else I'm orienting with or myself. We've figured things out slowly but we've been in the dark and it's very annoying. Hopefully, all of this nonsense is behind me. Third, I'm scheduled rotating shifts and I'm sure my insomnia will hit an all time high. Luckily (?), I have to schedule a follow up with my sleep med doc so I guess it'll all be okay in the end. Fourth, a friend from nursing school happens to be starting in the same hospital system with me. We come from very different backgrounds which always causes some issues (I guess that's what you'd call it - I keep them to myself). She said something pretty insensitive today, regarding herself (and myself as well, I suppose) as "normal people" opposed to LGBT, Pacific Islanders, and other groups of people. Fifth, the same girl, continues to call me lucky for landing this dream job (spec. in peds). She added how she doesn't understand why she didn't get something better even though we both applied in the first round. I wouldn't necessarily consider myself lucky. I just took the steps needed to get where I wanted to be (which is ultimately here right now). Like I tried my best and got good grades, used my CNA (she could've taken a summer course if she really wanted to get a head start), and I worked in a hospital for experience. Even if it was a small community hospital where I started out in adult tele just to get experience then moved to their very small peds unit. I would consider someone lucky if they had no health care experience, didn't volunteer or get involved, but happened to have a great interview. She just seems so entitled to everything. Like she's entitled to a position at this hospital and one that she really likes. No one is entitled to anything. I think this, again, ties back to our very different backgrounds. She came from a family who is fairly well off and where she got most things she desired. I'm pretty much the total opposite. Nothing was or is handed to me and my history is fairly extensive. Because of my background I think I feel even more grateful for a position at this institution and she will never understand that. Sixth, I met and made friends with a super cool 30-something child life specialist who moved states to work here. I'm really happy to have her friendship. Overall, life is good. Still grateful & thankful. Stressed. But I'll make it as I always do, right? This was super long so thanks if anyone survived it!

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So let me tell you

I can’t stand how God works. He’s always right and He always shows me how how silly I am for worrying.

For the last few days I’ve really struggled to adapt to my new job and schedule. It’s really nothing so far, the hours aren’t all over the place (yet). But I think my worry/stress/anxiety really made it even harder on me and my body physically reacted to it. I’ve been really struggling, like last night I felt terrible (physically) and I really think most of it was a result of the stress and anxiety.

Onto today, I had two people genuinely complement me. One being a nurse educator who was extremely impressed with the way I got her out of bed (it was practice). I really didn’t think I did anything amazing but I think it’s ingrained now. However, it meant even more to me bc I didn’t do any extraordinary or detailed task - it was something simple - but enough to get a lot of praise. She told me I was fantastic and that they really need me on the unit, she repeated how great I was a handful of times.

Then later in the day, another new hire (in my same position and on the same unit) said she was really impressed by me. She said she could see that I really truly care for people and that I’m going to be such a great nurse. She said she was very serious and didn’t want to sugar coat it, she truly meant what she said.

Here I am, worried/stressed/anxious and physically sick as a result. Uncertainty (read: self-doubt) is really tough for me. And here God goes showing me I have nothing to worry about. Yet again, he shows me how little I need to worry. To top it off, I heard the song Mercy play TWICE on my way home. It’s the song that was playing on the radio when I told myself I would work my butt off to get a position at this hospital one day. This was 4 months ago. Today I drove home from my fourth shift at my dream hospital and position.

How blessed am I?

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Interview follow up email???

The manager instructed me to email her a few days after the interview telling her my opinion and how I felt about the position. Any tips? Things to include? I plan on thanking her for her time, asking her to thank the tech I shadowed, and telling her that I could absolutely envision myself as a clinical nurse extern in department (the peds ed). Thanks in advance for your help!!!

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So, get this guys. I was, and still am, a little bitter about missing the student nurse position at the Children's Hospital. I never miss anything and somehow I missed this opportunity. Something I would so so so love and I know it would be a step in the right direction to have my dream job post graduation. Anyway, I realized today that I didn't see the position in time for a reason. Orientation for the job is next week, I know because some of my classmates got the positions with the same health system, and I wouldn't be able to attend. Because I'm going to Costa Rica! Had I gotten the position I wouldn't be able to go to Costa Rica and I can tell you that going to Costa Rica is an incredibly valuable experience let alone in once-in-a-lifetime experience. And so, even though I don't have all of the connections I'd like to have set up, everything absolutely happens for a reason whether my detailed obsessed and driven personality likes it or not.

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Advice/Recommendations?!

So I found two amazing student nurse position (yep, right after I was upset about missing other opportunities) and I need to make an amazing resume! I have the bones of it from previous resumes for tech positions and such but this time it's for a student nurse position which is a little different - It needs to be great. Any major info to include? Things to leave out? Great resources? Tip/Tricks? I'll take it all!

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So the children's hospital in my area had an opening for student nurse positions and I totally missed the mark. Of course it's for the winter start positions, and I honestly would prefer a summer nurse extern position, but I'm still disappointed in myself that I missed the opportunity. I'm not someone who misses opportunities. I so bad want to be an awesome peds nurse, especially at one of the best children's hospitals in the nation. I just don't know how to let this go. I just want to be the best I possibly can be and to do that I should participate in opportunities to better myself and I let this one slip by. Ugh. And yet I know everything happens for a reason and things will pan out. And I'm only in my first semester so I have time, but still.

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Holding the most lovable two year old for a few minutes at work was the highlight of my day.