I PASSED!!!!!

So I took my Certification Exam on Friday to become a Certified Medical Assistant and well you guessed...I PASSED!!!!! I'm so fricken excited!! I set up my date and time back in January and my thought process was to set it out a few weeks so I could study. So I choose March 11th. But that plan proved to fail because I studied once when I signed up, a few times in between and the night before. Haha but in all fairness I do study better under pressure. But I wasn't too worried about it because everyone that had taken it said it was easy and to just take the study tests in the booklet (that the school gives you) because that's where they get the questions from so that's what I did. Well to everyone that told me that...LAIR!! I did not have one question and was in that study book!! But its ok because I PASSED.

New Job!!!

I got a job at St. Lukes Downtown!! I'm so excited about it its not even funny. My first day was on Monday (2/28) I'm working in central processing. So I pick cases, wash surgical equipment, sterilize equipment, wrap instruments and take them to the departments if needed. I was hired on as just a PRN position but everyone that I have talked to said that wont last long and I will be working full time. And if that's the case, it would AMAZING. For training I'm working full time. Each week i will be in a different area learning how its done. This week I pick cases. Which at first was really overwhelming but by Friday, I was a pro. I'm still not as fast as everyone else but on Friday I only had to ask about two things the whole day! Each case has usually four or five pages of stuff they need for the procedure. Some things we have, and some things the OR has. So if we have it its highlighed in pink and then we take it off the shelf and on to a cart. A week of doing that gets kind of old. They rotate every day so that would be so bad. My trainer says a week of everything gets old. Haha so once I can rotate it will be much better.

I'm most excited to just have my foot in the door at St. Lukes. You can transfer departments after only working there for six months. I'm taking my MA certification test on FRIDAY. (I'm freaking out a little) and if I pass...in six months I could transfer to a MA job!! That would be amazing!! I looked and they have quite a few openings in the internal job openings and a few that are to the public too. There are so many clinics that St. Luke owns so I really don't think it will be that hard to find a MA job. Ah!! I'm just so excited. I finally feel like I caught a break. It seems like everything was against us there for a while and things now are starting to look up. Makes me very happy.

I have to wear surgical attire and the cloth hats the hospital provides are so sexy, so i made this one. And I'm quite proud of it! And I have material to make a few more!! Woot!!

To celebrate we decided to go to Jackpot. We drove there gambled. And drove home. haha. We didn't want to spend the money on a hotel. We broke even including our gas! I mean I wish we came home millionaires but for three hours of fun, its better to break even then loose! We didn't start out so hot but then I found one single slot machine with the Village People. Haha. It was awesome. We won over 300 dollars on that machine alone! So it was fun. Once we started winning!!