Bankstown

I have been placed in Bankstown Hospital in the emergency ward for 3 weeks. I can honestly say that I am loving it!
I can't think of anything to complain about in Bankstown hospital. The patients are great, the nurses are great, the doctors are great, even the cafeteria food is great!
I admit I was a skeptical at first because everybody I knew told me how bad Bankstown was but I gotta say it is way better than the others I've been in.
The only issue is probably the lack of equipment in the Emergency ward. One would expect the ward to be full of equipment and supplies because we are the frontline health professionals patients see upon admission, but alas; thermometers, stethoscopes and other basic obs equipment are always a rarity.

This experience would not be possible without my great friend Marlo, who had changed from a hospital placement 3 minutes drive away from his house in order to accompany and drive me to Bankstown hospital single day and night.
My appreciation increased even more when one day his car battery went flat when we were on the way home after a shift. I had to call another close friend Jem to help come up and connect up the cars to start it up. If Marlo had been stuck in Bankstown it would have all been my fault!

I feel that clinical placements allow me to learn heaps more than the paperwork mass offered by university. Somehow I think I have regained my passion in nursing. What a miracle.