The latest

I realized I hadn't blogged in awhile, so I thought I'd write about the latest.
The UK nurses only deploy for 3 months at time, so at our half way point, half of our staff changed. As if that wasn't enough to adjust to, the teams changed so that we were with different American's too, and the Hospital command team were also new. With new leadership comes a different way of doing things, and more change. I've officially met my potential to be flexible. We originally had 3 teams of nurses doing the day night day night shift pattern, and now we have 4 teams doing the LENO system: late, early, night, off. I like the shift pattern, more time off and easier to adjust, but having gone to 4 teams has spread us pretty thin, and we are still busy as ever. There's a whole drama about switching back to 3 teams... I'm going neutral on this one. Personally, I think we should be able to handle the load, but yes, it would extremely tight if someone were sick or sent home. I'm just used to doing what I'm told the best that I can. Thats what I'm going to do. A lot of the US nurses are at their breaking point, fighting all theses changes, new rules, new style of leadership. I'm staying in the background, still enjoying my job, and doing my best. I want to come home, but I'm not at any sort of breaking point...yet.