Things are beginning to feel normal here. I am in a routine/schedule now with work. Back to my
regular 3-4 shifts a week, instead of all this 5-6 work days trying to make up enough hours with 8 hour days and 4 hour days. I
no longer have a shadow at work either so that makes things nicer! I like being
independent, and organizing things according to my priority levels. That was a big hint the nurse educator here gave me. "Don't change your nursing style to fit the others. Be the same nurse you have been, just make small changes in procedure." So I am setting my own
timeline for documenting instead of at the end of the day like everyone else. There is no nursing
flowchart here to do an assessment with so I am having to learn to cope without the shortcuts I was used to. But all in all I feel better about being a nurse here each day. Even though the small things like no dietary staff to deliver the trays drives me nuts!
On a lighter note here are some photos from an afternoon at
Mt. Eden with two other Canadian gals Lisa and Britt.
Mt. Eden is one of many old volcanic cones within the city. Mt Eden or it's Maori name Maungawhau dates back 23000 years! This is the centre dotted with cows! (In most NZ parks and green spaces there are animals roaming freely, cows and sheep usually)
This is looking out toward the Western part of the city. You can see the Waitakere Ranges in the distance (that's toward the beautiful Piha beach, and where I took the photo in the frame a few weeks ago)
MOOOOOOO!
There I am!
The Volcanic crater looking east over Auckland toward the harbour and it's many outlying islands. Mt. Eden is the highest peak within the city of Auckland.
The weather is starting to get chilly now, no more shorts, I learned that lesson yesterday!
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