Job Interview today. UPDATE: I GOT THE JOB!!!!

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Hi All, asking for good doodle thoughts today as I go for an interview at a local hospital for a Lactation Consultant position. It is part time and exactly what I want in amount of hours so that I can still have time with my grandson, home and doodles.  These jobs are rare and although the competition is relatively limited due to the qualifications, it is a much sought after position for a RN, IBCLC, (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant)

 

So please wish me luck at 3:30 Arizona time? That's 6:30pm Eastern. Thanks to all my DK friends.

 

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR GOOD WISHES AND THOUGHTS, PAWS AND ALL !  You are all a great bunch of friends to send so many positive thoughts my way. Obviously it helped.  I start May 16th.

Thanks again. :0  You are all the best!

 

[Jennifer and Jack]

I love Labor and Delivery nurses and I have a great respect for them. I would rather take a full trauma, then delivery a baby. I think it is because I so desperately wanted to have a child and I think I would be too selfish and only think of myself every time a baby was born....

 

Labor and Delivery has its own world its own language and in nursing school it just flat out confused me. Late accelerated contraction vs early???? OMD I was so confused.. LOL One is good one is bad, I forget now.

 

Emergency room was not at  all what I intended to do at all, I really wanted to be a hospice nurse, because I am a firm, firm believer that people should die with dignity on their terms... and I just had such a heart for it, I got floated as a nursing assistant to the ER and I loved it and I never left that ward again.... I think I liked the autonomy and also that I was able to see something new all the time. Trauma was a bit rough on me, my body, having Addison's disease and CF could not take all that action so I was not able to do it for that long....Peds trauma was the hardest...

 

You are right, being a nurse is kind of like being able to go into any field. I am happy right now, I get to love on patients and that is my most favorite thing to do, I love to make people feel valued and loved, and when I am not able to do it, I don't feel fulfilled, no matter how much I love on Jack

 

If I ever get well enough, I would like to try to go back to Hospice, but I think the nosocomial infections will keep me away unfortunately.. Or if they find a cure for CF....

 

Until then I will be grateful for being able to work when I can.

 

 

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

Other than birthing babies, I think it is the BEST job in a hospital. I have a good feeling it went well.

[Linda, Webber and Seda]

Good luck!!

[Bonnie and Kona]

Oh Sue, I'm sorry I didn't see this until tonight. How do you feel the interview went? Hoping you get it. I have a good friend who has that job here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Loves it.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

It really is just the best job ever Bonnie and so rewarding most of the time. I just love the babies and miss it terribly. CA is so far advanced in the lactation field it makes me want to live there!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Just saw this too. So....

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

It went well F. I know you would've sent good vibes if you saw it earlier. SO.....

[Kyoko]

Good luck!! I was helped by a lactation nurse many years ago when I had my first child. It is so important especially for the first time mothers.... Thanks to the nurse's help, It ended up so successful, I nursed all of my kids. If it was not for that nurse, I probably would have quit nursing my oldest child, and never nursed the rest of my kids.  I remember not knowing what to do, and overwhelmed by the birth of the baby itself, I cried when the baby cried... saying " I am soooo sorry that I don't know what to do to take care of you~ I am so sorry that I don't know what you are wanting ~"

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

That pretty much sums up what most new moms are feeling Kyoko. I wish I had a Lactation Consultant with my first, but made up for it with my second and being in La Leche league lots of mommy friends.

[Kyoko]

Nursing was the easiest way to go after it worked! Never heating up the bottle, never stelirizing the bottle, never carried big bags with milk supplies, milk never got spoiled, etc!!! The best of all was that I had big boobs while nursing!!

[Susan and Sasha]

Hi Sue...

I haven't been on DK very often lately...so this is the first I've seen your post...

Just checking in to see how things went...

It sounds like a great job...and so important for new mothers!

Best of Luck to You...

 

 

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Sue, This is good news indeed! Congratulations!!!