Fort MacMurray Nurses I need help!!

FYI, some nurses only check into this forum once a week.

Fort Mac seems to be sending most of their patients down to CH lately. I'm actually beginning to wonder if the hospital up there does any surgeries or deliveries.

This should be an edit, but it won't let me.

Capital Health has a hard time with enough nurses wanting to act as preceptors for local students. Currently on my unit there are four RN and two LPNs acting as preceptors. I believe the theory is preceptor locally before trying to find preceptors for out of towners.

I second what Fiona59 says about Capital Health. Our unit currently has five senior practicum students and our usual half dozen new staff orientees. The pool of people deemed suitable to preceptor by our CNE and management and those willing to take on the responsibility of preceptoring new staff is small, and shrinking fast. They're trying to have only junior staff preceptoring (what sense there is in that escapes me) so the quality of the experience (and by extension the quality of care from these new staffers) is being watered down continually. The rationale is that our census and acuity are always so high that senior staff have to take the really complex patients and those aren't suitable for students or new staff. I often do a single "buddy" shift with a new staff nurse or student when their assigned preceptor isn't available. For awhile I was getting a reputation as the Orientee Killer... my assessment of the person's skills, knowledge base and potential for success in the unit was usually vastly different from their preceptor's and the person would end up being let go. That hasn't happened for a while, but the possibility is aways there.