First off, I may have finally had it with both Gmail and Yahoo! mail. I have had a Yahoo! account for about a million years and switched to Gmail as my primary account about a year ago because…well, it was cool and “in.” Except Google is pissing me off lately. It flakes out and leaves me hanging, and it necessitates a lot of fiddling to get stuff to work. I gave up on Gcal first because it quite rudely ate appointments randomly and didn’t leave a trace—an inconvenient feature for a calendar. Then I had to reconsider Gmail itself. If I used either POP or IMAP on my desktop, oddities would occur such as messages randomly being left on the server (or not) or forwarded (or not) in clear contradiction to the settings I had. If I used the Web client, my inbox would occasionally disappear. Um, I NEED my freaking inbox. This isn’t even counting all the privacy concerns with Google (search for Gmail and privacy if you’re curious). So I returned to Yahoo! to see how that went…much of the same stuff. I am bitter. Gmail’s free, so I guess too much complaint is unwarranted, but still.
I admit that I am perplexed at the unassailable air of “cool” surrounding Google. Google could take a personal dump on most people’s hard drives, and they’d be like, “Oh, well, OK.”
So as a result of all this stuff not working, I didn’t get some school e-mails and was caught with my scrubs down, so to speak. It’s bad enough when I have all the information given! Sigh.
I spent today in outpatient oncology and go back there tomorrow. It was so boring I watched the hours crawl by. I’m not cut out for clinic work. I really thought I’d like oncology because of the high degree of specialization, and although I might as an RN, it’s stultifying as a student. You can’t do anything yourself. I hope there is more going on tomorrow. It seems I’m more of a floor nurse type of person. Good to know. The only cool part of the day was when I ventured up to the surgical floor to look for my CI and was snagged by an RN to pull a surgical drain, since I happened to be there!
Don’t give up on Onc yet! I agree that the clinic stuff is not particularly exciting, but inpatient will keep you running. Most inpatient oncology units are Med-Surg Oncology, so you get exposure to a multitude of areas of nursing. You’ll have patients who are miserable from side effects of their treatment, patients who are sick with some pretty unusual bugs (because the chemo made their immune systems crap out), post-op patients, and even the occasional cardiac patient (cancer isn’t the only chronic disease your patients will have). Don’t give up on Onc yet!