Texas Children's Hospital #s

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Texas Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.

With 639 licensed beds and 465 beds in operation, Texas Children's is the largest children's hospital in the United States and is affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine as that institution's primary pediatric training site.

In 2003, Texas Children's more than 1,000 nurses achieved national Magnet Recognition, one of the highest honors in nursing.

Texas Children's has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthrough developments in the treatment of pediatric cancer, diabetes, asthma, HIV, premature birth, attention-related disorders, organ transplants and cardiogenic disorders. As of 2007, U.S. News & World Report ranks Texas Children's Hospital #6 amongst the pediatric hospitals in the nation.

In 2009 U.S. News and World Report ranked Texas Children's Hospitals among the top children's hospitals nationwide. Texas Children's Hospitals was among the first hospitals in the nation to be designated on the U.S. News and World Report Honor Roll, which is reserved to those hospitals that rank in all 10 subspecialties surveyed.

The programs were rated as follows:
#1 Kidney Disorders ,
#2 Respiratory Disorders,
#3 Heart & Heart Surgery,
#4 Digestive Disorders,
#5 Neurology & Neurosurgery,
#7 Neonatal Care,
#9 Diabetes & Endocrine Disorders,
#9 Urology,
and #14 Orthopedics.

Texas Children's Cancer Center is also ranked the #1 pediatric cancer center in Texas and the #4 in the nation

To find out more for yourself check out the hospital's website . . .   Texas Childrens Hospital

Having a BLAST in Houston :)

Well I certainly did not waste any time getting around and seeing tons here in Houston. I only wish Julie was with me so our amazing fun times together could continue.


Saturday--
Houston Zoo
Hermann Park
Fine Arts Museum
Butterfly Exhibit at Museum of Natural Science

Downtown Aquarium

HERMANN PARK

FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF HOUSTON

Pablo Picasso

SCULPTURE GARDEN

BUTTERFLY EXHIBIT @ MUSEUM
OF NATURAL SCIENCE

iguana! watch out he bites!!

DOWNTOWN AQUARIUM

starfish

White Tigers @ the Aquarium

Sea Turtle

DOWNTOWN HOUSTON

Minute Maid Park

Sunday--
Johnson Space Center- NASA
Museum of Natural Science
Hermann Park

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER- NASA

rocket!

historic mission control

HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE

t-rex

gems & crystals

impala

Plus after my weekend jam packed with fun I made it back to my hotel with time to watch the New Orleans Saints win the Superbowl!

Houston Zoo

After being in Houston for just one week and having rain almost everyday all day long. The weekend came and the weather was wonderful!! So I took complete advantage of the nice weather and went to one of my favorite places to visit in new towns- the zoo!!!!

Prairie Dog

new jaguar exhibit

Leopard

Grizzly Bear

Masai Giraffe

fruit bat

Orangutan

Texas Children's Hospital in HOUSTON TEXAS

I got a new assignment in Texas . . . Houston to be exact. I am currently on an 8 week travel nursing assignment at Texas Children's Hospital. Since my contract here is so short (usual contracts are 13 weeks or more) my company put me up in a hotel. Well its an Extended Stay to be precise- meaning there is a microwave, stove top, small sink and refrigerator. But its really just a hotel room- totally boring and small.

Texas Children's is a wonderful place. I am really enjoying the nursing part of my assignment. Even though there was a lot of confusion at the beginning with orientation- everything is now sorted out and I am finally completed with all my orientation and math tests!!! The floor is a general pediatric floor with most patients having a diagnosis of respiratory distress, tonsillectomy, dehydration, gastric enteritis, fever, urinary tract infections, and other general medical problems.

Everyone I work with is really nice and they seem to get along with one another which is great. Plus they are a great help with my many questions- where is this?? How do you work the TV? Where is the cafeteria located? Mostly just general "I'm new here" type of questions. One thing I am not a fan of are these phones that each nurse and staff member has . . . it just beeps and rings all day. If the patient presses the call light, you get a page. If the monitor is beeping (usually because the patient is moving), you get a page. They are nice to get report on new patients but I find them to be mostly annoying!!!