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Part 2: A registered nurse, an architect of the redesign and a nursing professor weigh in Christopher Sun News staff
Kelley Charters starts her shift at 7:30 a.m. If she’s lucky, none of her registered nurse co-workers will call in sick, otherwise she could be asked to work more than her scheduled 12-hour shift, a common occurrence for frontline health-care staff. On arrival, Charters huddled with night shift nurses to get information on patients on the ward, which allowed her to prioritize the four or five patients under her care. “I look at the patients, learn about their care plan, prioritize them, figure out who needs to get what tests, who needs to be seen first,” said Charters, an RN at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital, and shop steward for the B.C. Nurses’ Union. “I would do a head-to-toe assessment on each patient, check for any pain, get to know the patient and pick up on any changes throughout the day.” Charters’ said her routine and workload has changed since September 2013, when Island Health implemented a new patient care system called care delivery model redesign (CDMR). PLeASe See: Complex patient needs, Page A3
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Students shuttle from West Shore Edward Hill News staff
No crowding, no pass-ups, free Wi-Fi and no cost. Could there be a sweeter bus ride for a starving student? It’s not going to dent B.C. Transit ridership or eliminate the need for parking lots, but Camosun College has launched a small shuttle bus service for staff and students, running between the West Shore and the two Saanichbased campuses. On Tuesday, two days into operation, half a dozen people waited patiently for the 4:06 p.m. Camosun Express pickup from the Lansdowne campus, offering a 50 minute ride to a drop off near the Six Mile Pub. Laura Rechwan, 18, visual arts student who lives in Colwood, discovered the shuttle existed on Monday as it drove by. Giving up two long, jampacked bus rides, while often carting large canvases to campus, wasn’t a hard decision. “I almost screamed for joy,” she said. “The seats are so comfortable and its relaxing. Now I won’t have to take two buses and be passed up because they’re full all the time.” “I was so excited to find out about it,” added Doreen Provencher, assistant to the dean of aboriginal education. “I live in View Royal so a ride
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Camosun College student Laura Rechwan, 18, is happy the college is experimenting with a free shuttle that launched Monday and runs between the Saanich campuses and the West Shore. to the Six Mile pub is perfect.” Camosun launched the service based on surveys that indicated more than half the college staff and 34 per cent of faculty regularly travel between the Lansdowne and Interurban campuses, and a healthy number live on the West Shore. Camosun director of ancillary services Kathryn LeGros, who spearheaded the service, was happy to see people boarding the shuttle, despite limited publicity of the rollout. “It hasn’t had a lot
of communication before classes started,” she said. “I’m happy the word is spreading.” The shuttle starts at 7 a.m. at City Centre Park in Langford, and makes stops at Six Mile Pub, Interurban campus and then Landowne. It does a trip between campuses midday and returns to Langford in the evening. Camosun has an agreement for shuttle users to park at Six Mile Pub or Eagle Ridge Centre for free. Camosun staff will monitor ridership and survey shuttle users
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to gauge its uptake. The project has about $50,000 to keep it running until March 31, but after that LeGros said it will need to find a way to become “self sustaining.” Whether that is by charging a fee or finding grant funding isn’t clear. Surveys indicate student and staff support the shuttle concept, but LeGros said they’ve see what happens when rubber hits the road. PLeASe See: Future funding needed, Page A7