Continuing on her province-wide tour MNU President Sandi Mowat accepted the invitation of Seven Oaks Local 72 members to see the renovations to the Emergency Department and to tour the facility. Mowat has pledged to visit every Region by the April 2009 AGM. She continues to be impressed by the way in which nurses across Manitoba meet the challenge of delivering quality health care.

Touring the new Seven Oaks General Hospital ER Department. Redesigned – inside and out!

(At left) Terri Gobeil, Vice-President of the Seven Oaks Nurses Local 72, guides Sandi and the group through the new ER; (centre) Glen Stobbe, President of the Seven Oaks Nurses Local 72, and Sandi Mowat are impressed at the changes; including “The Seasons”, a contemporary art installation which hangs in the ER waiting room (far right).

(At left) Sandi is taken through Seven Oaks Wellness Institute by Cathy Rippin-Sisler, Chief Nursing Officer; and (at right) the tour moves on to the ICU, meeting with Kendra Gierys, the newly hired Program Educator (left) and Chris Gomez, Program Team Manager (centre).

(At left) The tour continues on the SOGH Dialysis Unit (left to right) Terri Gobeil Vice-President Seven Oaks Nurses Local 72, Sandi Mowat, Colleen Johanson, MNU Board member for Seven Oaks, and Dialysis Unit RN, Fred Atkin; and (at right) on the Peritoneal Dialysis Unit (left to right) Sandi Mowat, Cindy Sludmore, RN, Venesa Zelenitsky, SW, Irmy Friesen, RN and Louise McBeth, RN.

(At Left) Sandi Mowat continues her tour on the 14-bed Post Acute Neurological Surgery Unit, accompanied here by Maria Jonker RN, Secretary/Treasurer of Seven Oaks Nurses Local 72; (at centre) on the Orthopaedic Unit with (left to right) Dianne Steel RN, Sandi, Susan Andrews and new grad Bonnie Frankenberger; and (at right) on the General Surgery ward, where she encounters nursing students from the University of Manitoba’s BN program and encourages them to continue nursing in Manitoba.