Day in the life of a float pool nurse. I will head to the house coordinator's office in the morning on my scheduled day. I will pick up my assignment sheet. It'll tell me where I'm going, which is basically wherever the hospital is needing a nurse for staffing and to take care of patients. Sometimes it's the ER, sometimes it's different floors. I will then head to that floor, check in with the charge nurse, get my assignment from them for the day, get reports. My manager will come around on me once, sometimes twice. Make sure we're okay. And we always have their phone number that we can call if we have an issue. After I work on the floor, I will give reports, stop by the house coordinator's office on the way home, and clock out and do it again the next day. Always something different, which is great.

I've been with Northside, really, since 2016. I did relocate in 2019, and unfortunately had to leave, but I'm back. I was able to come back at the end of August, 2020. And I was so excited for this, this opportunity. And really, the question is, you know, what keeps you here? And really, in my case, what made me want to come back? And I knew that coming back to this team I would be coming back to my friends, my family, you know, people who were going to have compassion and empathy, and really just complete support for whatever may come our way on a work day. And having that support really just gives you comfort, knowing that you're working for such a great company that offers great benefits, and just really great volunteer opportunities, whether that be running a 5K, or Open Hand, or going to Ronald McDonald House, you truly become a part of something that's way bigger than yourself. And I'm so blessed to be a part of this team.