Welcome week

Yes, that's what they should be calling this week. People who were gone are returning and people we haven't seen in a while have come back. If only the Hotel wasn't such a great place to stay!

My day went well. I had the choice of assignment, so in the interest of simplicity for me today and the next time I work, I asked for my two characters from last week back. Yes, maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, or I've finally got them working with me. All went well, so that was nice.

I found I learned a few new things today. The docs are impressed that I read notes. I talked to one of the residents running around with the doc there and they were talking about someone's recent surgery. I told them what I knew about it, asked a couple of questions and got a quick 101 from the specialist. They seemed impressed that I knew what type of surgery it was.

After that, I was rooting around in some lab results and ran into this new bug: Providencia stuartii. eMedicine has a great overview of this family of enterobacter-type infections, which is really interesting.

The rest of my day was taking care of my people, admitting one of the regulars, troubleshooting some tech issues for some other staff, and passing pills for our nurse who was getting a little hypoglycemic from not eating. Ahh, what fun!

The folks on this end were getting restless looking for pills (since they were a few minutes late) until they found out I was delivering them. I've pushed pills down there for so long, I can almost read their minds...and they know I'll bring them what they want. (After the first 100 times, it's pretty easy to remember...I just look and bring the stuff along).

Finally, I passed all the meds, finished my paperwork, helped another person with theirs, and escaped on my merry way.

More to come...stay tuned!