All of you hospital people know what that means.
A new crop of residents and med students. Yep, July 1st is when the "changeover" happens in the medical hierarchy.
Reality Rounds wrote an excellent post about the annual changeover, relating it to "the big house". Ironically, that is how I refer to our main hospital, where I work. We have several smaller hospitals in the system. But we're "The Big House", or "The Mother Ship".
Time to start educating the newbies, again.
What I hate the most though, is saying good-bye to the experienced residents who are moving on in the world. Just when we get comfortable with them, they move on to bigger and better places. It's so sweet to see how much they grow from those nervous newbies to experienced chief residents!
Enjoy the 1st of July everyone!
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Roll out the Red Carpet. NOT!
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That seems kind of exciting! Maybe stressful, but still exciting to see new faces. Have fun!
Thanks for the kind words and the link :)
I think nurses and teachers have a lot in common. It can be sad to see our students leave, but fun to see the new ones coming. However, it can make me feel really old!
My humble condolence to you and Cervix and RR. I fortunately will not have this process to go through. At least not yet. They have been threatening residents for years. I am just a hop skip and a jump from teaching hospital nirvana. I F-ing hate most residence. But that is jut me being my polly annna self!
i guess i am one of those newbies lol
OH. MY. GOSH. It's been a stinking madhouse around our Neuro floor! I have a new grad nurse who I'll be orienting for the next few weeks, and he wonders why I'm frustrated at the amount of calls that I have to make to the new batch, not to mention trying to find their pager numbers because they are not in the system yet, etc. I just keep shaking my head and saying "We've just got to walk them through it...hold their hands and walk them through it..."
I am so glad that my days of dealing with residents are done. Granted there were some good, some bad but overall you just have to shake your head. Sometimes when I am hanging out on L&D, they have a patient - and soemtimes it is scary to watch what they do!
OK, so I'm a little late, but I just had to link this story.
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