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The Clarian Nursing Application and Interview Process in a Nutshell

Thursday, January 28, 2010 by The Clarian Health Nurse Recruitment Team

Recruiting great nurses is extremely important to us. So we want the application and interview process to give us a good idea of who you are and what you expect from a nursing position. We try to keep the process as simple as possible. Below is what to expect when applying to Clarian for a nursing position.

The application process (should take no more than 15-20 min.):

Find a position(s) you want at www.calltochange.org/nursing or www.clarian.org/clarianjobs.
Click through until you reach the online application.
Complete the application and upload your resume.
Follow the instructions to complete the Health Care Selection Survey. (This is a tool we use to gauge how you will fit at Clarian – taking into account your personality, experience, etc.)
When this is done, you will receive an automated reply by e-mail, saying we’ve received your application.

The interview process:

We call ALL qualified applicants WITHIN 2 WORKING DAYS. If we don’t feel you’re a good fit at Clarian, you will receive an e-mail response.
When your recruiter calls, you will discuss career goals, experience, expectations, etc. Your recruiter might also recommend other openings that might suit you well.
Your recruiter will schedule an interview with the unit manager (usually within a couple of days). You may have two or more interviews scheduled, depending on your experience and qualifications.
Your recruiter will coordinate every aspect of the interview process. Typically, on the day of your interview, you will meet your recruiter at the Nurse Recruitment office, where you will go over general employment and benefit details. Your recruiter will then personally escort you to your interview(s).
Within a couple days (maybe sooner) you will have a response. You will either be given a formal job offer, recommended for a shadowing day, or told why you are not being offered the position.

We have some of the best recruiters in the business, and their entire job is to treat you professionally and with respect. We work hard to find and recruit the best nurses available. If you’re one of the best, we can’t wait to talk with you.

Good luck in your interviews!

By Lydia Ostermeier, MSN, RN, CHCR
Director of Nurse Recruitment, Retention, Workforce Development, Resource Allocation & Customer Service
losterme@clarian.org
317-962-1886

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December 24, 2009

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by Sherry Holden, BSN, RN, Associate Partner

Over the past 42 years, I have spent more than 20 of them working! That seems an interesting reality to me on several levels. As a family, we have dealt with the “designated holiday” and have never really missed Christmas, we have just planned a bit differently. And, the years I was not scheduled to work were always grand and glorious!

I have also discovered that the work place has never disappointed me at Christmas. In some dysfunctional way, our units become family and we create a certain atmosphere for every holiday. Over the years, the decorating crews seem to jump out of some magical box and think they are Disney Designers and create a festive atmosphere for all of us. And, the food fairies think we need a month of sugar to survive. People have great food traditions, other than my Beef Brownies. AR should be a pastry chef in her next life and KT’s husband just needs to open a cookie shop! I was at work very late last night and was more than tempted to take the entire box under cover of darkness. Those night people party with too much flare as it is and I’m a little behind on baking. I’m thinking a dash of Grinch activity would have been fun. This morning I’m regretting I didn’t do the deed! I think we should do a holiday cookbook next year on 4-Medicine. JS makes a mean cheesy potato thing and MS is always concocting something unique! What a tasteful idea! I didn’t make it to the boss's Christmas Party this year, but I’m sure it was another good gathering. Next year I’m going to take the string game so all my colleagues will verify that I really am an unusual and fun-loving person.

This was also a special year of sharing on 4-medicine. SW is a person who has a heart as big as the universe. She orchestrated a memorable Christmas for one of our staff who is having a difficult health year: food, gifts, money, cards… the staff response was over-whelming. Why do I work on 4-medicine? Pretty obvious.

Those that work on Christmas Day give the gift of caring on a plane very few understand. It is a gift of sacrifice and love; hand delivered to those in need. The nurse-patient bond on Christmas is only understood on a heart-level and I have some very fond memories of years past and the people who have touched my life. Priceless.

When I sign off, I’m headed to Walkerton. Grand-babies and my children, who are still kids at Christmas! It is going to be wild! Christmas through the eyes of a child gives a whole new meaning to the word JOY, so I’m preparing to be blessed.

Sherry

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An Early Christmas Present!

Wednesday, December 16, 2009 by Tracy Davis, BSN, RN, CCRN, Pediatric Critical Care

Last week, Methodist had an employee celebration and silent auction to really begin the Christmas season. To put it succinctly, it was a blast! Over the course of eight hours, employees from all over the hospital made their way down to the conference center to eat breakfast and lunch, listen to a live band, and walk around looking at over 200 items to bid on. The silent auction was held to begin the events for our new capital campaign, which will help fund our new critical care tower, to be built over the next five years. 21st century medicine cannot be practiced in patient rooms designed even 10 years ago. Critical care requires more space for each room. Today’s improved patient care is a result of more highly skilled professionals, more sophisticated equipment, more intense treatments and better pharmaceuticals. Critical care patients often require all of these – in the same room at the same time. Additional space also reduces the risk for and spread of infection, and provides greater privacy and comfort for seriously ill patients and their families. Upon the tower’s completion, all critical care beds will be single patient rooms. So the beauty of this day was the employees received a fun day, while the campaign got off to a terrific start!

The “early present” for me was the time spent greeting, laughing and visiting with all of the “friends” who came down to see us. It is just amazing how a little music, food, and the company of others can liven up a day, and put everyone in a great mood. We had a representative from an outside company there, who at one point genuinely said to me, “I go to a lot of hospitals. It is amazing that a hospital as large as this one can have people that know each other so well and treat each other like family that are so happy to see each other.” And she was right. I told her it is why people stay here so long, because it is just like a family, we take care of each other, and have genuine affection for each other. She said that was very easy to see. We listened, as the time for the auction neared its conclusion, to a few mild threats about the items up for bid, from one good-natured employee to another. That was half the fun, too. Those of us working for the day did not mind at all, because the reward was making people happy. It truly was a gift.

Tracy

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Policy and Ethics in Brief: Privileged to Visit

Sunday, November 22, 2009 by Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, RN, CCNS, Clarian Nurse Ethicist

It was not that long ago that Clarian endorsed an open visitor policy. As an organization we recognized how family presence contributed to the well-being of our patients. I often hear nurses express concerns about the fairness of the visitation policy. Patients aren’t prisoners, so who are we to tell them who can and cannot visit?

We value family centered care, but that does not mean families may do anything they want. The Clarian policy on visitation provides a lot of latitude to customize visitor guidelines to meet the needs of the patients on individual nursing units.

The flexibility may lead to questions of fairness. One way to decide if the guidelines are applied fairly to different patients is to ask “are we meeting the needs of the patient?” If the visitor is meeting a patient need, aren’t we obliged to meet that need? Most would say yes. So when is it ethical to deny a patient something they need?

Sometimes our duty to protect patients from harm means we have to give up something that might be beneficial. This can happen under normal circumstances when a family becomes disruptive or when visitors pose a potential risk, as is true now with the H1N1 virus.

The policy on visitation places the responsibility and the authority to determine what is in a patient’s best interest squarely on the nursing staff. Not all nurses are alike however, so again, how do we make sure the implementation of the policy is fair?

When nurses decide to make an exception to the visitation policy, they must communicate the reasons not just with patients and families, but with other members of the team. When exceptions are made the criteria used must be transparent for all to see so that a reassessment can occur as the situation warrants.

Consider what is relevant, the need being met, the benefit to be gained and the harm to be avoided. Fair can mean different. When fair is different, we have an obligation to be transparent about the criteria we use to enforce a policy differently.

Lucia Wocial, PhD, RN
Clarian Health Nurse Ethicist

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Technicalities

Saturday, October 31, 2009 by Gwenn Christianson, MSN, RN, CSPI

Vicky, a school nurse called. A special-needs student, a little boy aged 8, had eaten a good portion of a toy. “Well, not the toy itself. It’s this special kind of “Real-Life Reptile” and he chewed a hole in the tail and ate a bunch of these little white beads …. what we want to know is if those beads are toxic or not?”

First I established that the little boy, Ricky, was generally healthy and having no obvious problems at this time. He had been given a glass of water to drink and was doing so without problem. They estimated the amount of beads he had ingested as ¼ cup….

"Do you have the original packaging on the toy, and does it say non-toxic?"

"Oh no, we never keep all that stuff."

"Then do you know the manufacturer’s name or number?"

"Only what it says on the tag..."

Turned out the tag said the product was a "Real-Life Reptile" made by Boinky Ball Toys (all names changed to protect the innocent), but nothing more. The particular reptile he had ingested was a "Fast & Friendly Gecko," blue-green with bulging orange eyes and red toes.

I did a quick search on our Poisindex© system – neither the toy nor the manufacturer was listed.

Then I did a quick Google© search – and voila! Boinky Ball Toys was listed, and so was our little reptile friend... unfortunately there was no information on the contents and their potential risks if ingested.

I advised Vicky that I doubted this was a toxic exposure, as toys are generally made with non-toxic components, because kids do tend to nibble on them. I suggested that I take her number, and that I would call the company and track down the actual ingredients, just to be sure. Meanwhile she would closely monitor little Ricky. She was agreeable with that approach.

I called Boinky Ball Toys and spoke to Tiffany in their Customer Service department. Eventually I got her to understand that I wasn’t interested in placing an order but I needed to speak with someone in charge of product development, to find out what the product was made of. Then I spoke to Shelly, who said I needed to talk to Dave, "but he’s in a meeting right now, may I have him call you?" I explained, yet again, that we had a child that had EATEN their toy and we needed to know sooner, rather than later, what the toy was composed of. Shelly promised to interrupt Dave’s meeting.

A few minutes later, Dave called back. He had obtained the MSDS on the toy and was pleased to report that the white pellets were vulcanized plastic and totally non-toxic. I thanked him for his time and called Vicky back.

"Good news, it’s just plastic, completely non-toxic," I told her. "The only risk would be a concern for obstruction, but that’s unlikely since the format that Ricky swallowed was all tiny pellets." Still I recommended that he be fed a high fiber, high fluid diet for a few days and that he be watched for any signs of an acute abdomen. Of course, if he developed any symptoms, he should be checked by his FMD and that the physician needed to be informed of this exposure.

When Indiana Poison Center opened it’s doors, in 1977, nurses used a microfiche to look up general topics and made a general guess as to their contents. When I joined IPC in 1988, they had recently moved to a computerized database, Poisindex©, which tries to list every possible substance and it’s ingredients, with general directions on managing each. Since the early 2000s, with the advent of the internet, we’ve turned more and more to Google© and other search engines to help us find things that have yet to hit the database. But often technology is still not enough and it comes down to basic research and personal interaction to find the information that we need.

Was all that necessary? Well, I could have slept pretty well that night, knowing that the chance was 99.9% that Ricky’s ingestion was non-toxic... but I’d rather take the extra time, make the extra calls, and make 100% certain there was NO risk – treating that child like my child. So that’s what I did.

Gwenn

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Have Fun, But Get Your Mandatories Done First

Thursday, October 15, 2009 by Sherry Holden, BSN, RN, Associate Partner

Sometimes you look back over the past month and say to yourself, “What just happened?” You discover that you have compacted time and squeezed every minute to its limit. Instead of taking a breath and enjoying a bit of fall, you ratchet it up a notch and say “what’s next?” I’m doing spin-off lists now so I can basically keep track of who I am, what I’m doing and where I’m going. Maybe I need a blueberry!

I’ve been trying to complete my MANDATORIES. I can never seem to get them done during patient care time, so I have to wander in at strange times on my days off. I consider mandatories a necessary nuisance, especially now that I have to go in to do them. I liked the good ole days when I could do them from home in my pajamas on a Saturday night at midnight. I am one of those people who actually read every word and often take notes on things that are new. I also find interesting stuff at times that I might have known at some point in time and have totally forgotten or find that it really is new and I either like it or I mull it over in wonderment. I’ll not expound on the latter but can give you a prime example of the former. Did you know that the brain is 2% of the total body weight, uses 20% of cardiac output at rest, utilizes 500ml of oxygen and 75-100mg of glucose/min and requires optimal perfusion of 50ml of blood/100gms of brain tissue /min.? No one thinks about this stuff until October; unless, of course, your world is neurology.

My world is not neurology. I spent last week working in Video Seizure. I find it all very fascinating but I am not comfortable with it. I am getting better but I can tell you that Nik & Marz are pretty impressive with the whole scene. They are finite in reading the monitors and responding accordingly. It is the one great thing I like about the nursing profession, we all seem to find a niche over time and have the ability to excel in that arena. I even have trouble answering the phone in seizure! Try this a few times: "Video Seizure, this is Sherry." That must do something odd to brain waves!

I also managed to go to Reno this month for a long weekend to visit my college roommate and a grade school friend. What a great interlude! You can’t beat spending time with people you have known for 46 and 55 years. We went to Tahoe, Virginia City, Carson City and the unexplainable Harrah Auto Museum. Couple that with airplane snafus and every weather pattern imaginable, and there are great stories to be told.

I am a great believer in managing time to allow for fun as often as possible. We clog our lives with so much it is imperative we find time to make a few memories. As my sister would say, “We all need marker days”.

(Good rates to Florida - temp is 90; check it out! But, get your mandatories done first!)

Sherry

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Just Some of Clarian’s Finest

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 by Tracy Davis, BSN, RN, CCRN, Pediatric Critical Care

Last week I once again had the privilege of participating in the Career Advancement Program Board of Review. It is without a doubt one of the most sustaining things I have ever continued to do in my career. Among all of contents of the portfolios that are submitted by nurses throughout the downtown hospitals are exemplars. These are stories of their practice, told in their own words. It is truly unbelievable and inspiring, the work that goes on here, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Most of it is done quietly, with little fanfare. But to the person on the receiving end of this compassionate care, the patient, the family, the friends….all who are blessed by such outstanding care, it is awesome. It is a nurse who literally saves a life because of her attention to detail when things start to go wrong. It is the patient who mentions he doesn’t like to be alone, so his nurse makes a point of staying with him as much as she can, especially in the dark of night. It is countless stories of loss, where the kind, comforting words and touch of the nurse are so timely and never, ever forgotten by the families whose lives have been changed forever. So many stories like these. Everyday, there are heroes among us. Going about the work of nursing, making a difference. I’m glad to be a part of the team.

Tracy

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Why Wouldn’t a Registered Nurse Want a Career at Clarian?

Thursday, August 6, 2009 by The Clarian Health Nurse Recruitment Team

This past week has been eventful as we have learned that we will be combining our Nurse Recruitment offices in one location. To date, we have been split between two campuses, which can create some challenges related to communication and scheduling office coverage. It also can cut down on cohesiveness.

I am very excited about going forward in one place where we can work more efficiently as a team, share our successes and frustrations, and just experience more synergy in Nurse Recruitment all around.

I feel so blessed to work with such great co-workers; I truly love coming to work each day, and this just adds to my job satisfaction. Thank you to our leadership team for making this happen! :)

I also was honored to be a part of the Magnet re-designation ceremony at Riley Hospital for Children. It gives me goose bumps to really take time to re-remind myself what it took to reach this point in our nursing history at Clarian.

I can’t believe I have been here 15 years this month, and the preeminent growth I have experienced is immeasurable! I am so proud to be a Registered Nurse and to be applying my experience and knowledge in a health care system that is elite enough to be in the top 2% in the country.

Why wouldn’t a nurse want to work for us?!

Julie

Julie Ruschhaupt, BS, RN, Clarian Health Nurse Recruiter
JRuschhaupt@clarian.org
317-278-7082

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Check Your Blood Pressure at the Indiana Black Expo Minority Health Fair

Saturday, July 11, 2009 by The Clarian Health Nurse Recruitment Team

Clarian Health will be present at the Indiana Black Expo Minority Health Fair. The IBE is an annual event for Indianapolis that grows more and more every year. This is an opportunity for the Clarian staff to volunteer and help the community. We will be providing blood pressure checks and education. I have volunteered in the past five years with my sorority at the March of Dimes booth. This will be my first year volunteering for both Clarian and the March of Dimes.

I encourage everyone to come out to the IBE events and make sure you stop by the Clarian booth and say "Hello." Get your blood pressure checked while you are there. If you are a Clarian staff member and want to volunteer, it is never too late to sign up on the pulse page through the Clarian serves link. Take care.

Shalunda

Shalunda Tyler, RN BSN
Nurse Recruiter for
Perioperative Services, Endoscopy,
Adult Cinics, and Healthnet
317 962-9083 office

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Free Classes for a Registered Nurse at Clarian

Friday, May 29, 2009 by The Clarian Health Nurse Recruitment Team

The weather is beautiful and it always motivates us to get outside and get moving. I always look at the Clarian Daily for the free class opportunities that are offered.

In the past, I participated in the free water aerobic class and loved it. It was offered at the IU Natatorium on the IUPUI campus. I loved it so much that I bought a 15-class pass.

This week I took advantage of the Clarian free Tennis clinic offer. The class had tennis pros from the IUPUI Tennis Center. It was nice weather and the class was so much fun. I join the 5-week class for $50.

I must warn you, I am not an athlete and having fun in the class had me wake up the next morning very sore. But it was worth it.

Shalunda

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College Grads Ask Nursing Jobs Recruitment Questions at Indiana University South Bend

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 by The Clarian Health Nurse Recruitment Team

I recently had the pleasure to go to Indiana University South Bend’s campus and meet with their nursing students on behalf of Clarian. The students were a mixture of May, August, and December graduates. They all were excited about the end of the semester and drained from finals week.

This opportunity gave me a chance to discuss the wonderful education and advancement opportunities that Clarian has to offer its nurses. I discussed with them the importance of getting their applications in early. I asked my group at what date did they start applying for positions. The earliest month the May graduates had applied was in February. Due to the economy there is not a lot of turnover in nursing positions. New graduates should embrace that securing a position in a system and gaining experience, even if the position is not your first choice, is a wise decision.

To view all of the Clarian nursing job opportunities, please log on to RN Job Opportunities Indiana. I enjoyed the beautiful South Bend campus and the opportunity to speak on all the great things going on here at Clarian.

Shalunda

Nurses Week at Clarian... It Really is ALL About Our Nurses!

Thursday, May 14, 2009 by Tracy Davis, BSN, RN, CCRN, Pediatric Critical Care

It has been a fun-filled time around here lately as we celebrate Nurses Week. I have the privilege of being on the Nurses Week Committee that is responsible for planning all the fun! I think what makes it so interesting is the unbelievable variety of ways we go about honoring and rewarding the hard work of our nursing staff.

I was especially proud of a decision by our staff to forego their own gift and instead give to others. It was felt that in these tough times, it was just the right thing to do. Not surprising really, if you know the people around here. The funds that would have been used for a staff gift instead went to fund two nurse-related Clarian charitable programs, a scholarship to a deserving nursing student, and a generous donation to help a nurse and their family in a time of need. Just like the hearts of nurses….usually taking care of others before themselves. The staff does receive some great recognition, too. Ice cream delivery to all the nursing units is a huge hit. There is nothing like hearing “woo-hoo” when you go into a staff lounge and tell them you just brought dessert on a busy Sunday afternoon. Or if it is a really busy day, it may be lunch! There is Clinique Day, tickets to an Indianapolis Indians baseball game, tickets to a Colts game in the Clarian suite, and tickets to practice at the Indianapolis 500.

It is a great time to recognize all that our staff provide to our patients and families each day and night, 365 days a year. They are truly deserving of all the fun that comes their way!

Tracy Davis

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Clinical Practice: A Time to Share Practice Guidelines, A Time to Eat

Saturday, May 2, 2009 by Tracy Davis, BSN, RN, CCRN, Pediatric Critical Care

A perfect opportunity to get a majority of the Pediatric Critical Care staff together is for a Clinical Practice meeting. It is a monthly meeting held on the unit. We usually update everyone on news of the day, which may be as ordinary as upcoming inservices, to sometimes startling news such as wedding announcements, baby news, and those important matters.

We always have food, that is mandatory. It may be simple, but at our last meeting, that was not the case. It was a celebration, actually. Our Clinical Manager and Director brought a fantastic chocolate cake/cheesecake in for the group. It was to celebrate our unit going 358 days without a central line infection. It was a great reason to celebrate! We take a great deal of pride in our care, and that was an example that was worth recognizing.

Now mind you, we were all in need of insulin midway through the meeting, but it was worth it. Trust me. We then talked about all kinds of important issues such as the incorporation of the hospice team into our care, proper medication reconciliation upon discharge, improvements in our computer documentation, the list goes on.

We ended with a very clever Easter egg hunt, the brainchild of a couple of staff nurses. They had hidden the usual plastic eggs all over the unit. But instead of putting candy inside them, they had hidden all kinds of small clues about our care towards children that everyone had to answer correctly before they could get the candy. For example, it might be an IV connector hub, and they had to answer a question about how often that piece is changed with IV tubing. Brilliant!! Just another example of fun coworkers, committed to making this unit the best it can be.

In the end, the children and their families are always the real winners.

Tracy Davis

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Nurses Finding the “Right” Words

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 by Lucia D. Wocial, PhD, RN, CCNS, Clarian Nurse Ethicist

Nurses often describe their role as the translator for complex medical terms that patients and families can understand. Patients bleed (not hemorrhage) and stop making urine (not anuric).

Yet nurses may not be as skilled at translating their concerns about an ethically challenging situation because they are unfamiliar with the language of ethics. The question I hear most often related to this topic is “Can patients demand everything?”

Sadly, there is no simple answer to this question, but it is important to look at it using words that convey some understanding of the ethical issue at stake. Patients are entitled to exercise their autonomy, meaning they have a right to determine which medical treatments they consent to and which they do not.

Consent depends on knowing all the risks, benefits, burdens and alternatives to the treatments. There is often a tension between a patient’s autonomy and paternalism from members of the health care team.

Paternalism refers to actions or attitudes that suggest someone knows better than the patient what is best for the patient. The overriding ethical principle behind paternalism is beneficence, or the desire to benefit and promote the welfare of other people.

When the question “Can they demand everything?” is asked, the underlying concern is whether the patient has enough information to truly consent to the treatment or if “everything” is a “good” thing.

Nurses have a duty to address both concerns.

First, nurses can ask patients to explain what they understand about the proposed treatment/procedure. Any gaps in understanding should be brought to the attention of the attending physician.

Second, nurses can help the patient define the “good” that will come from the procedure by reviewing the patient’s goals (restoration of health, return to independent living or better quality of life, for example). Agreeing on the goals of treatment is essential to respecting a patient’s autonomy and avoiding premature judgments about what you may think is best for a patient.

Lucia Wocial, PhD, RN
Clarian Health Nurse Ethicist

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Revelation of Clarity as a Registered Nurse at Clarian

Saturday, March 7, 2009 by Sherry Holden, BSN, RN, Associate Partner

Sometimes in the midst of chaos, one is given a “revelation of clarity”.

Last night, after three busy, challenging and very rewarding 12-hour shifts, I was extremely tired: O.K., exhausted! I was wondering if three in a row is too much for me, when it dawned on me that I didn’t have to work that pattern if I didn’t want to, because on my unit we do self scheduling and I get to choose how, when and why I want to work. It truly is a great system. Hours are posted in four-week blocks of time and each of us pencils in when we want to work, and somehow it becomes reality - most of the time.

If there are conflicts there is discussion and resolution. So I could work any pattern of time during the week. Maybe I’ll think about three eight hour shifts and one twelve, or two of each. I normally work days, but I might think about a couple of evenings or I might even add a night now and then.

Maybe I’ll do a full weekend!

I think I’ll take a day off on the next schedule. I can see my manager coming out of his office saying, “What are you doing”?! Then I’ll give him some kind of an explanation and he’ll respond, “I’ll see what I can do”! Somehow it all works.

It also dawned on me last evening that I have the next four days off - my choice and a reward for hard work. I thought my plans were pretty concrete regarding these days, but now “spring-break” has arrived in Indianapolis and I might map out my garden: Good Friday is coming and I’m thinking about planting potatoes. The Big-Ten Women’s Tournament is in town. I might take in a couple of games, and the Butler Bulldog’s are red hot for the NCAA. A game at Hinkle Fieldhouse is always fun.

Sorry, I digress. Back to my revelation. On 4-medicine at IU Clarian, the gift of controlling my own time is invaluable to me. Time is the great equalizer in life. We are not all given an equal number of days but in each day we are given exactly the same amount. The only variable is what we do with it.

Choose wisely.

Sherry

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