Smile and the world smiles with you!

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Specializes in Occupational Medicine, Orthopedics.

I had my 2nd day of orientation today at my new job (LTC).

My poor face! It had a work out today:

Big happy smile for residents...

Confident smile for coworkers...

Concerned smile (brows knitted during crutial video moments showing residents dignigty & rights)...

Knowledgeable smile for the orienting nurse when appropriate...

Pitiful smile a couple of times during the facility tour...

an "Oh my gosh! What am I getting myself into" smile at the moment I realized how much paper work and plain old charting there is...

an "I'm fooling myself if I think I can do this job good enough" smile...

and then, when I got into my car after the day was done, I had an "I'm going to make this place better, and make a difference to some of these people (residents and coworkers alike) smile... or I'm going to go down smiling!

I hope my smile stays...

Blue

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Specializes in Geriatrics/Family Practice.

A very cute thread. You can make a difference if they (corporate greed) doesn't get to you first. You have a great attitude and even if corporate greed brings you down and makes you leave your facility, you would have put some smile of your residents faces, and that I consider making a difference.

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Specializes in Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology..

Keep smiling!............It really worries them!They want to know what you know and they don't!:lol2::lol2::lol2:

Seriously I love to see happy cheerful nurses,it just doesn't seem to happen much nowadays.

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Specializes in trauma, ortho, burns, plastic surgery.
I had my 2nd day of orientation today at my new job (LTC).

My poor face! It had a work out today:

Big happy smile for residents...

Confident smile for coworkers...

Concerned smile (brows knitted during crutial video moments showing residents dignigty & rights)...

Knowledgeable smile for the orienting nurse when appropriate...

Pitiful smile a couple of times during the facility tour...

an "Oh my gosh! What am I getting myself into" smile at the moment I realized how much paper work and plain old charting there is...

an "I'm fooling myself if I think I can do this job good enough" smile...

and then, when I got into my car after the day was done, I had an "I'm going to make this place better, and make a difference to some of these people (residents and coworkers alike) smile... or I'm going to go down smiling!

I hope my smile stays...

Blue

I liked very much your posting! You will be a very good LTC nurse. Nice to discover you, lol, I like your style, people will be happy to work with you and for sure many other nurses will tell you the same, you will do for sure a great job like nurse, keep you smiling always. For sure your smile will stay, make your work life happy!

Zuzi hugs you!

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and then, when I got into my car after the day was done, I had an "I'm going to make this place better, and make a difference to some of these people (residents and coworkers alike) smile... or I'm going to go down smiling!

I hope my smile stays...

Blue

Blue, work on making it better for "these people." If you work on improving the place they'll run you out on a burning rail.

And good luck!

;)

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