Welcome back to the blog. Today I will be sharing my experience with take your kid to work day. I went into work with my mother, who is a Nurse Practitioner for the kidney transplant team. Due to patient confidentiality, I was limited in the things I could participate in. I wasn’t able to witness meetings with any post transplant patients in the morning. But what I did participate in was dealing with patient transfers, prescribing medications and checking on patients info who have recently received a transplant. I also learned more about how the kidney functions, creatinine, anti-rejection medication and keeping a transplanted kidney functioning

Some things I noticed about the work environment that I found encouraging was the friendliness of the workplace. Everyone I met was very respectful and friendly and that makes me feel a lot better about getting up every day to work when I get the that age. Another thing that was expected but still very welcome was the cleanliness of the environment. Always nice to work in a clean space.

On the other hand, one thing I found a little discouraging was the amount of work there was to do. There was always another patient to check on, another transfer to deal with or another prescription to change. This isn’t bad but it always feels a little discouraging to have a massive stack of thing to deal with.