Thankfully, the weekend was quiet. We never say the "q" word at work, but now the weekend is over, we can. It's fine and dandy when you sit and work in relatively equal proportions.
This was handy, since I was asked
One big bugaboo is that SuperGiganto Payroll people sent e-mails with passwords that expired pretty much after they left the mail server. Which means I had to teach people a) how to get their e-mail (some know how and some don't) and b) how to get through the maze that is SuperGiganto Payroll. As a former author of help documentation, there was way too much of it. One of our nurses totally violated the "green" part of getting into her payroll account by printing the help file, which had to be at least 100 pages. This task, in between call lights and actual work, took about two days.
I also had to complete the paperwork for some folks who missed our yearly competency reviews. The caveat: the forms said they all had to be reviewed by the nurse manager, so only about 20% of the competency could actually be completed over the weekend. Sorry, boss. I tried to help out...you'll just have to do the rest. You'd think our very own education nurse could work on this, but lately, the only thing she's working on is vacation and sitting in her office. I heard more than once that maybe I should be doing her job instead of her. Not a chance. Said nurse has more experience than I do and probably will never set foot back on the floor again.
Since I had some free time, I found a great free review for my next grad school class. I'll be looking at that in my spare time, since classes won't start for a couple of weeks.
Overall, it wasn't a bad weekend. We have more bookings coming up today at the Hotel, so we'll see how it goes.
Stay tuned. It's never a dull moment.
