Or rather... 3 weeks late.
I'm so mad at myself once again for not noticing expiration dates. Of important things. LIKE MY LICENSE!
Not my drivers one. Although I probably should check that while I'm at it.
No. My nursing license.
Which I kinda need for the job I just started. So I was in clinic on Monday and needed my nursing license number and pulled out the card and noticed it expired Dec 31.
Ran online and renewed.
And now I wait. The website says it can take 6-8 weeks for it to actually renew. Apparently it isn't an automated process.
Meanwhile, HR has told me that I can't work until my license is active again.
ARGH ARGH ARGH.
Getting off to a terrific start. This is only the frosting on the cake here.
Because I've been in orientation for the better part of the month. Nice that my parents were here to watch the kids so that I didn't have to find a babysitter for most of it. BUT starting day 1 the schedules didn't match up. As in MY schedule said to be at a certain place at a certain time with a certain person, however the person who I was supposed to be training with was somewhere else.
That was for the EHR learning in the classroom. Then in the clinic work, I showed up to be with a particular dr who had no idea I was supposed to be there and 30 minutes into the day get a call from a different clinic wondering why I didn't show up when they expected me. Or the other new NP, they weren't sure who they were supposed to have, exactly. The next day I show up at my assigned clinic and *surprise* that person isn't there and not even working that day. The following morning we were scheduled at one clinic although that person was at a different clinic... you get the picture. After day 2's clinic fiasco I started calling the clinic locations and confirming the location and that I was supposed to be there, so while I was scheduled at clinic a on my schedule I actually did show up at clinic b where the meeting was taking place only to find a sign there that the meeting was moved at the last minute to clinic c.
Did I mention there are 8 clinics here? There's alot of room for confusion.
Also short on my Spanish language ability. Because about 50% of the visits are conducted in spanish. Once person I was training with said even if they speak english they don't speak it in clinic and want the providers to speak spanish. So much so that I notice she went in and out of spanish for even the people that spoke english. I have a lot to learn. Particularly medical terminology. I mean knowing basic words for food, color and direction isn't really going to help me tell the patients they have a cold or how to care for stitches.
Not that I will be speaking it anytime soon, apparently, since I need a license to be working.
I've been joking that I think it's a sign from above that I really shouldn't be working. Maybe it is. Or maybe this falls under "work hard for good things" category. Not sure which at this point.
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