Hooray, it's Friday and I got out on time. The boss wanted me to stay over another four hours, but Dahey already had plans, since this is my off weekend. I'm sitting here with a nice glass of wine and all of my administrative tasks at home are pretty much done. That holiday paycheck was nice!
My patients were good. Both got up and went to therapy and got evaluations for various stuff, like Aspen seating. One patient got a new loaner chair, so we had to work with him on driving it (the other had a neck-controlled drive system which was great, except when you had to lift in and out of it!).
The medication administration IT team was on the floor again, because those new med carts we got are actually the first ones for our hospital system period, not just for Madison. We gave the sales rep a lot of ideas for stuff we wanted, particularly for locking up controlled substances.
The big problem: rehab units tend to have a lot of people walking and/or rolling around in them, so having a cart that only uses a simple code to get into it is not a good thing. The company's answer was, "Don't leave the cart unattended." and while it may not be unattended, a nurse may need to turn his/her back. Lots of things can happen when you turn your back. Happily, the bigwigs are working on getting us a controls drawer that requires us each to have a special user ID to unlock it. Personally, I won't be storing my controls on the cart until they do. I may just do like one of my coworkers said today and put them in my pocket in a Ziploc, so they're in my possession!
Happy weekend all! Stay tuned...more next week!
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