22: From Pediatric ICU to working on an Indian Reservation, nursing can take you places you never dreamed.

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, 10 p.m.

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My first guest for season 3 of Still a Nurse podcast is my lovely friend and neighbor Mary.\\xa0 I am so glad that she was willing to be on the show and share with us her journey through nursing over the past 43 years.\\xa0 This episode really shows just how varied your nursing career can be! Tune in to hear about Mary's experiences as a nurse on a pediatric ICU and watching early open heart surgeries, working on a reservation in Arizona with\\xa0 Hope and Navajo tribes, and on to high risk antepartum nursing, and finally finishing out in home health care. This is an episode you don't want to miss!

-Mary was educated as a nurse at the Oregon Health Sciences University.
-She has nursed in several different states.
-Throughout her career she has had several drastic changes in the types of nursing she has done. Her advice to those facing a new nursing job or role is to remember that "The fundamental basis of all nursing is assessing" As long as you have strong assessment skills, are humble and willing to learn and ask questions, in her opinion you can quickly adapt to just about any nursing position.

Links:
-https://www.ohsu.edu/school-of-nursing Click here to learn more about the program Mary graduated from and speaks so highly of.
-https://www.ihs.gov/nursing/Click here if you want to learn more about nursing on reservations.
-Do you have nursing stories you want to share? We want to hear them! Email me at soelberg90@gmail.com or go to http://www.stillanurse.co and leave a comment under the "Let's Connect" tab.

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