I haven't written an update for a while and alot has been happening.
So I have found myself in a pretty awesome position. I'm currently just sitting here on holiday, between jobs in Perth. I have been on a road trip up the West Coast as far as Monkey Mia and caught up with an old friend Iain in the process. There's some beautiful places up there.
I have realised something I'm not sure a lot of other nurses know. There is a serious nursing shortage out there. Rural areas - it's the place to be. Forget the city. I have managed to resign my position at TPCH and get a short term contract for the exact dates that suit me in Mackay. Not a bad thing eh. All you nurses out there - I reckon you should all start spending a little time in the ED... the skills you learn you can take with you to any other nursing job and they will be very highly regarded!!!
Next week I leave Western Australia to spend a little time in the Snowy Mountains to do a short course in Expedition Medicine. I'm really looking forward to the course because even though it has an alpine focus, I'm sure I'll learn a lot of skills I can use and who knows what it might lead me to doing in the not so distant future!!! Mostly though I'm doing it because it sounds like some serious fun (and it has the added bonus of enabling me to keep the CPE hours up!)
When that finishes I have job lined up in Mackay Emergency Department. Seems like a friendly enough place and I'm looking forward to getting out of the hustle and bustle of Brisbane. Mackay is a rapidly growing centre with people constantly coming and going - sounds like they're pretty short staff and I'm sure i'll learn a lot of things working in the ED over there.
I finish up my contract on the 4th of December - just enough time to catch up with another old friend up in North Queensland and have some (more) fun. We're thinking it might end up being a dive holiday but nothings concrete just yet. Might end up being another road trip or a hike, we'll see what happens!
Home for Christmas and then somewhere around midnight on boxing day a plane is whisking me and my bike over to Cambodia for a few days... on the way back to Egypt to do it all again!!! If you're wondering why it's simply because it's a little more interesting and much more fun than the alternative which involves hanging out at the hospital all day!!!
