Then I had a nurse tell me, don’t sit in this chair during the day, this is the day clerk’s chair during the day. And I’d call out to the nurses someone needs this or that and the nurses appreciated it. I remember, as an intern, I’d sit in the clerk’s chair at night, writing my notes, and I’d also answer the phone. Your colleagues will walk in and not know what hit them. You may not know who the charge nurse is on, say, the sixth floor, but you will walk up there knowing you need to know who that person is and that it’s critical to your success.
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You’ll know where the cafeteria is, where the restrooms are, how to open up a patient chart and navigate it. On Day One, you’re going to be like, yeah, this is a hospital – your hospital, in fact. And the system isn’t very forgiving of your inability to navigate it.Īfter that is figuring out, ‘What is my role as a student?’ Only once you’ve settled into that can you get around to, ‘How do I practice medicine?’ So when you say this to someone with no conception as to how a hospital looks or who anyone is, it’s a very daunting task. You’re asked to go pull the chart up or find these films or find the charge nurse and find out when this MRI will be done. First, you have to learn to function in this environment. Students on clinical rotations go through this cycle.
And what you’re going to find is there’s a very, very steep learning curve. MH: You’re going to walk into the hospital for the first day of rotations and get it. They aren’t so introverted they can’t have a conversation with another human being. Dell Medical School has done a lot to choose not only a diverse group of students with a wide range of experiences, but also people who, I believe, having met at least half, feel they have been selected for their interpersonal skills. That’s not to say you won’t have some uniquely experienced people in your class, because you will.ĭW: And we do. You’ll also discover that you understand health care in ways that your medical school colleagues won’t. MH: The nurses took care of me to a large degree and ensured my residency experience was much better than it might have been. them’ dichotomy between doctors and nurses.ĭW: Yes, we absolutely do, and I’ve been in hospitals for 14 years, so I know. We shouldn’t still have a world with an ‘us vs. MH: It made my life in the hospital immeasurably better in that the nurses viewed me as one of them. Question: So it was an advantage for you to be seen as one of the nurses? They also would often pull me into rooms to start IVs and things like that. I didn’t walk around and tell anybody, but my resident colleagues opened their mouths a lot. I think back to early nights at Brackenridge as an intern, when I met all the nurses on the seventh and eighth floors and it rapidly become known that I was a nurse. You probably won’t practice as a nurse again, but it remains valuable for different reasons. You can do a lot of work trying to plan that, but it won’t turn out the way you expected it to. What you can’t predict is where your life will go. MH: Well, you won’t do anything for a while. One shift here and there isn’t really bad. But especially in December, when we have breaks, I hope to pick up some overtime or two weeks, then take a vacation. I did that for four years of medical school.ĭW: I’m probably going to take the first six months (of classes and not work) and get my pace down. At times, I’d do five or six shifts in a row, and then they wouldn’t see me for two months. I needed the money, so I kept pulling weekend shifts and some Friday nights. I worked as a nurse while I was in medical school. MH: My whole nursing career was spent in Houston. Did you work at Brackenridge? Everyone on the eighth floor asked me, ‘Do you know Mark Hernandez? He was a nurse, too.’ Mark Hernandez: First of all, congratulations.ĭavid Woerner: Thank you so much. Recently, Woerner and Hernandez met for the first time at Central Health.
Before earning his medical degree, Hernandez worked as a registered nurse for six years. Mark Hernandez, MD, RN is chief medical officer of the Community Care Collaborative, a Seton partnership with Central Health, Travis County’s health care district. Woerner, 30, who works in the orthopedic/trauma/reconstructive plastic surgery unit on the eighth floor at University Medical Center Brackenridge, will be one of only two RNs in his class.īut at Seton, he follows in someone else’s footsteps. Woerner, RN, CNA.ĭavid’s is not the usual career path for an aspiring physician. It’s uncommon for a registered nurse to pursue a medical degree. When the inaugural class of 50 students gathers in July at The University of Texas at Austin’s Dell Medical School, it will include one of Seton’s own – David J.
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