I have been treated for about two years for AVM, or GAVE (atrial ventral malformation, or gastric antral ventral ectasia), starting with 3-month interval cauteries of the blood vessels that come to the surface of my stomach, burst and bleed, causing severe anemia. Good Luck!Īnother endoscopy question: I hope my posting is appropriate to this thread. It is a lot of charting however, once you get it down, it's a breeze. Now I work 4 10-hour days with either Friday or Monday off and no weekends or holidays! In the ER, I worked three 12-hour days, weekends, and holidays. We see an average of 20 patients per day, and the hours are spectacular. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask!Īfter two years in the ER, I made the change to an endo clinic. Best of all, I work in a hospital, but I really have almost clinic hours and work every 8th weekend on call and only one holiday per year. I get to start IVs and do lots of patient teaching, which I love. I get to do the conscious sedation for the procedures and work prep and recovery. Basically, I assist the GI docs with Upper Endoscopies, Colonoscopies, and ERCP. You get to have the technology and the patient contact. I can say I have never felt more at home with GI nursing. After four months, I realized I had missed having contact with conscious patients. After about a year in Ortho, I decided to try Circulating in the OR. There is so much to learn as a new Grad, and I really feel I was a lot less stressed just by working with people I knew and being familiar with the layout of the hospital. My first job was on an Orthopedic floor, simply because I had interned on that floor and thought it would be the easiest place for me to transition to being an RN. I knew more specialties that I didn't like that I was interested in. Stephani~First of all, congrats on finishing school! When I graduated from Nursing school, I had no idea what I wanted to do.
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