Travel nurses rock.
After my surgery, and probably again, if I have to have the surgery on my hips, I'll probably get another travel nursing job nurse.
I was so out of it, I can't recall her name, but she was really good. She came here every morning at 9:30am, cleaned my stitches and changed my dressings, made sure I was using my brace and keeping track of my schedule, and helped me with my physical therapy.
I couldn't do much, but she helped me keep my legs mobile so they didn't atrophy or get cramps.
She's also the one who told me and my sis how I could take a shower without getting the stitches wet using that Glad cling wrap stuff.
It sticks to skin really well, so we just stuck it on my back all the way down, and then I could sit on the shower chair and get clean.
I think at that point, I had been something like 27 days without a shower.
I felt so gross!
She and I talked one day about her job, and she told me how she got started.
She used to work for a travel nursing agency, and had been all over the country doing it.
Whenever and where ever a nurse was needed, she went.
When she got married, she wanted to stay here in Sarasota, but wanted to still do as much travel nursing as she could, so she started her own home travel nurse company.
She has a staff of over 100 nurses who will travel anywhere from Sarasota to Tampa, and as far south as Port Charlotte.
They just go where ever a nurse is needed, she has a nurse to cover that area, and spend the day driving around to make sure patients at homes are taken care of, and even cover shifts at local hospitals.
There is still a shortage of nurses in this country, and travel nursing can be the ideal way to do the job you love, but get to sight see and meet new people and work in a variety of hospitals and private homes.
I'm going to need to get in my file cabinet and dig out my surgery folder if I end up having the surgery, so she can come back or send me one of her other nurses.
She took such great care of me, I want her to come back if I can get her.
