Lucky Me

One of the many beauties of registry nursing is the wide variety of people I get to meet.  On any given night, I have no idea who I'm going to work with, or the conversations we're going to strike up.  I'm constantly stepping out of my comfort zone and putting myself out there.  I'm always the newbie on the unit; the one who's being scrutinized and judged.  Even if I go to the same hospital two nights in a row, I might not work on the same floor, so I have to prove myself all over again.  If I let it, it could be exhausting.  Instead, I try to think of it as an adventure.  (And isn't that what my life is all about?)  Sure, there are times when I want to go about my patient care unbothered.  There are definitely nights when wish I could go unnoticed and fade away into the background.  But, more often than not, I run into the coolest people, and our chatter morphs into truly interesting conversations.  I've befriended some really stellar people out here that I would have never met, if not for my crazy job.  And, for that, I consider myself incredibly lucky.