They understood that our primary focus is the patient and his care is our priority. We work as a team to reach our goal in keeping it as such. We are all dedicated, compassionate, professionals that have a reputation for giving unsurpassable care. For those thirty-six hours, over the next three days, both the traveler and her buddy are tied at the hip, so to speak. When she reaches her comfort level, she begins to stop observing, and starts doing.
Questions are ongoing, and if the orientor doesn t know the answer, so much the better.
Because they have so little time to fit in, the travelers themselves have come up with ways to ease their own transitions. They have brought a little something from each place they have worked, be it an idea, a saying, a hint or just a story to share. Travelers are unique individuals who possess different backgrounds culturally, intellectually, spiritually and socially. Their values, beliefs and integrity are what adds to the diversity in a workforce. Last year a traveler shared a report sheet that she had put together.