Day 1:
So,
today was my first face to face meeting with the Volunteer coordinator at St.
Elizabeth East hospital. We both seemed
to hit it off really well. We sat down
and filled out paper work together to make sure everything was done quickly and
properly. The meeting was very casual,
but it gave me a very good insight to what I would be doing at the hospital
during my service hours. From previous phone
calls and conversations, the coordinator knew that I was on a time constraint
due to being pregnant and she was super excited to work with me. She wanted to get my hours started as soon as
possible, which meant I had to go through orientation and my health screening
rather quickly. Now, orientation was
going to be a problem. Normally, the
hospital only offers volunteer orientation like once a month on Saturday
mornings. Well, the orientation for that
month had already past and I work on Saturday mornings. Even through those two difficulties, she was
determined that we would figure something else out. She said she would look into it and get back
to me with some information. Indeed she
did get back to me, and rather quickly.
We set up another meeting and that would be two hours long for me to
complete an online orientation. The
online orientation, consisted of me reading through and watching power points
of basic information about the hospital, then taking a couple quizzes to show
that I knew the material. For the health
screening, I had to prove that I recently had a rubella titer, a flu shot, and
I also had to have a current TB test.
Luckily through my blood work for my prenatal health I had a rubella
titer and my doctor had recently given me a flu shot, so the only thing left
was to get an updated TB test then I was all set. Was my TB test was complete, she called me in
and took me down to the Women’s Center Registration Desk to introduce me to
Tammi. This would be were she placed me
to complete my service hours, which I was pumped about because I soon would be
checking into this part of the hospital myself.
