My Job

Well, since I'm sure some of you have been wondering, this is where I work:

Foothills Medical Centre, Main Building

      There are several buildings but I work in the main one. I float between the 10th and 11th floors. On the 10th floor, I work on the Stroke Unit, the Calgary Stroke Program in #2 in North America! On the 11th floor, I work in Clinical Neurosciences, so I work with neurology patients, and neurosurgical patients, it's very interesting and I'm practicing a lot of skills that I haven't had to use because I have been working rehabilitation and have now moved on to acute care.

     They have several parking lots and parking garages where staff can park. Unfortunately, there is a wait list of about 600, people so I'm taking the bus cause I'm not about to pay $13.00 per day to park in visitor parking. To get a parking pass here is $80-$100 depending on which parking lot/ garage you get put in to, so no one working in Fredericton at the hospital should complain about paying the $3.75 a pay or whatever it is!

     It's interesting here because LPN's and RN's each have their own patients, they also have Undergraduate Nurses working here and they too have their own patients. I just finished my buddy shifts and will start working on my own next Wednesday. Each person working is responsible for 2-4 patients, and overnight 5-7 patients. So this, in a nutshell, is where I work and what I'm doing.