Kaiser Volunteering / Nurse Shadowing: The Second Session (#1)

This was my second time volunteering and Christina and I volunteered for 4 hours. This time we volunteered during the usual hospital hours so it was a lot different and shorter from the last time we volunteered. This time we got a tour of the second floor which is where the radiology rooms are. This is where patients go when they are in crucial need of getting an x-ray, cat scan, and MRI before they rush into surgery. If the patient for some reason cant move from their gurney a radiology nurse can bring a portable x-ray machine to the gurney. This time the nurses, hospital staff, and our mentors were not working at a slow pace because the hospital was very busy during the day. I really like how they work as a team while assisting patients and how well they worked together. When they were finished with their patients you could tell how they were happy and felt accomplished because everything went smooth and nothing went wrong.