The I CAN attitude is now an I DID attitude!

Last Thursday my blog post was about "Having an I CAN Attitude" .  Today, just a little more than a week after I wrote that post, I am thrilled to report that my I CAN attitude has turned into an I DID attitude.  As a post-script to the earlier post, I indicated that I had just requested a transfer to the oncology unit at the hospital where I work. 

Today, I was called in for an interview by the clinical leader and for a peer interview of four of the unit's staff nurses.  Tonight, I can tell you that I have been hired to fill that day shift opening and will begin working back in the oncology setting soon - the week of February 13th to be exact. 

I couldn't be happier.  I've been doing a mental happy dance ever since I was told I had the job.  My mind is a-buzz with all of the things I think I remember, all of the things I think I will need to brush up on, as well as the things I know I need to learn - In the oncology setting, there are always new chemotherapy agents and or combination therapies not to mention I am certain there are new approaches to familiar diseases. 

I look forward to the challenges of being the very best oncology nurse that I can be - to learning  all that I've missed during my non-oncology nursing years - and most of all to the blessings that come from being a part of the oncology patient's life.

"When I think about all the patients and their loved ones that I have worked with over the years, I know most of them don't remember me nor I them.  But I do know that I gave a little piece of myself to each of them and they to me and those threads make up the beautiful tapestry in my mind that is my career in nursing."  ~Donna Wilk Cardillo, A Daybook for Beginning Nurses