Tuesday, January 11, 2011

work and other 4 letter words :(

work was AWFUL today. we did 25 + beds tonight.
let me explain: when i say we did "beds" that means discharges. When i started working afternoon turn a little over 2 years ago, an average night was anywhere between 10-15 beds. a busy night was about 18. Now, an average night is around 20 beds and busy is closer to if not more than, 30.
When we do these "beds" we have to empty the room of anything that was the discharged patient's. This includes but is not limited to: bedside commodes (which the aides are supposed to empty. sometimes they don't.), IV poles, feeding tube poles, leg machines, heating pads...and the list continues. We also take out the linens and garbage. Then we clean the bathroom, the furniture (nightstand, tray table, and chairs) and the bed. Then we make the bed, stock utensils, and mop.
try running to the trash chute 25+ times, with bags of trash, all this equipment, and then having to stop, leave all that at the door of the room with the chute so you can unlock the door. then pick it all back up again and dump all that stuff to run back to the room and clean like crazy.
it's exhausting. the worst part is that the daylight housekeepers say "25? why is that such a big deal?"
because there are only 2 of us on an afternoon shift. there are at least 5 times that many on daylight.
so yeah, work is a dirty 4 letter word.
so is snow: it's disgusting is what it is. hope it stops soon. otherwise i will probably throw up a whole lot...or run away to a tropical destination.
there are lot's of other 4 letter words. like hope, love, like, etc.
those can be good or bad...right now, i'm choosing bad lol :p
later gater's

another one is snow. what is up with all this white stuff?

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