TGIF Meeting hijack

I usually don't have a lot of meetings at the end of the week, but this week was unusual.

One meeting was short and sweet. The doc took notes, assigned the tasks, and away it went. Elapsed time: 20 minutes.

The next one, the token MD at our other hospital, Washington, decided to hijack a pressure ulcer prevention meeting by talking about getting all of our patients these items and getting "some good publicity finally." in the local media.

Ahem, the dander was standing on my neck. The dander was standing up on almost everyone else's neck. I told the doc (since I was only a meeting interloper anyway), "It may not be appropriate for everyone. Come on down to Madison. We can show you this exoskeleton in person (assuming one of our patients is in a trial)."

What I really wanted to say (and everyone else did, too, but didn't) was STFU. Hijacking the meeting for purposes other than what you're supposed to be there for is decidedly rude.

Happily, I did get to escape for a bit. Bubba had one of these ceremonies today at school.  I just wish I could have stayed for the cookies afterward.

TGIF all! Enjoy your weekend (long for some of you) wherever you are.

Not exactly appropriate

Ah, I LOVE being in charge of the Hotel Rehab (yes, I say that with much, much irony). Thankfully, my last spate of being at the wheel were relatively busy, then boring. Boring is not bad when one is in charge.

So much fun. Got to do a lot of education. One, why does Nurse X disappear with Patient Y, asked one of our newer to us nurses? And the  answer is ...she always does when Patient Y comes in for his annual checkup. Is it appropriate that she leaves her other patients to take care of this one? Not really, but since she's a fave of the nurse manager, it happens.


Mr. D., one of our newest rehabbers is doing really well, now that he realizes that we are in the business of getting you to function to your highest ability. He's going out with the therapists and doing more every day. I'm just crossing my fingers that this continues, because he's getting to the A student status among our patients really fast.

I love it when people realize a) we are not really a hotel,  b) inpatient rehab is merely a stop on the journey, and c) we can really help you help yourself if you listen and do what we ask.

You only get as much out of rehab as you put into it.

More to come....