Sarah the Nurse BC Travel Nurse

Landed. Sarah Hennings was safe and secure. But only after 1.5 hours in flight and the pilot announcing that we had to circle the area a few more times for the fog to clear before getting to ground level. The thick fog happens often in this valley. It can prevent the fly-in planes from coming on their twice weekly trips. This was problem during covid as it limited the available supplies and opportunities for travel into Prince George. This was the closet major centre anywhere near the community I just got to… in fact it was really the only other community within five hours on a logging road besides a neighbouring First Nations village. This place was the same size, with members living spread out among the trees and into the valley. I, Sarah Hennings, had never seen anything like that before. Sarah the Nurse was on a new adventure again and I hadn’t even returned back home yet.  Walking off the plane, I, Sarah Hennings noticed six pick-up trucks waiting around, all with at least fou...

Travel nursing in BC - Oh Sarah B the places you will go #4- blogged Sarah Hennings After a month in my cozy corner of the public health office, I, Sarah Hennings, was now on a plane to Prince George. The two hour drive in the morning in the cab back to the city had seemed a little more riskier than I liked. While naive to the roadways, everyone seemed overly confident for that heavy fogged up morning and narrow winding roads. The driver, however, assured me this is mountain driving and simply laughed at my concerns calling me a “flat lander”. He was right, we arrived safely without incident, just as everyone else on the road had that morning. This quickly made me wonder if it was my own anxiety creeping in telling me I couldn’t do it at a new location, or if people were crazy drivers out here?! Thoughts circled my head, making me panic, would they like me, would they accept me, are my skills really good enough enough for outpost nursing??! I am just a nurse, I have no critical care, o...