The new math

Manglement sure hasn't figured out how to do math, although they are really good at subtraction and negative numbers.

Here's how.

If you say you need to save money and "rightsize", why are you hiring, not one, but two administrative "management team leaders" who cost nearly $200,000?

If you let nurses leave units, don't hire anyone to replace them, then have a couple die, retire, or just plain quit, you will start to have negative staffing patterns.

And finally, if you nitpick every single solitary person who knows how to do their job, and scrutinize every second of extra time they put in when their management says "do it", they can and will subtract themselves from your department.

You have it folks, the new Manglement math.

The story of the numbers

I read in the paper today that if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2, there will be lots of trouble, according to economists. As a Govermint employee, I'm thinking I may need to beef up the emergency fund and plan a staycation for this summer, instead of that cross-country trek for Bubba to see Uncle Ray and his kids out East.

Ahem...back to the interesting numbers. As an escaped business person, I'm always looking at numbers, and as a rehab nurse, too. We got labs, input, output, pressure ulcer sizes, TED hose sizes, you name it.

For fun, I always read the stats of this blog. Some of them are not entirely numeric.
Since this lil' blog has kept stats (about 6 months after I started) here are the numbers:

Total    33,273     
Average Per Day    35     
Average Visit Length    1:19     
Last Hour    1     
Today    13     
This Week    245    

I am also fascinated by the places my visitors come from. Here's a recent sample:

State of Ohio (state.oh.us)

Federal Aviation Administration in beautiful downtown Atlantic City, NJ (www.faa.gov)
No wiseguys...looks like they just came over from my friend Maha's place (pakazoid.blogspot.com)

Kuwait National Petroleum Company (www.knpc.net)
Did my bro-in-law tell them about me? He's a FOBbit now, so maybe he did that while waiting for his food at TGI Fridays.

Last but not least...
Some nice person in Adelaide, South Australia using on.net found this blog on google by typing in label bubbling.

No matter the numbers, no matter where you are, thank you for stopping by. Come on back whenever...you never know what I'll serve up next!

Stay tuned...

I don't want to clean...

The house really needs it, though. Yesterday was the crazy day (with a capital C) of the week and I'm so happy I'm off today and tomorrow.

Here are a few snippets of my Friday.

1. Get Mr. Colo ready for his close-up (yes, the colonoscopy was yesterday). Mr. Colo gets taken to the test only to find out one of his labs are out of whack and they won't do it.

What does he win, Pat? Well, I saved Mr. Colo some pizza from the Marine luncheon today, but I told the charge nurse to give it to someone else, since Mr. Colo will be on a liquid diet until they can try again Monday (assuming his numbers are better).Yuck!

2. Boss says I need to show one of the new nurses how I pass meds. Yes, I had the med cart again and the new nurse got my general AM rundown of how I do things (print a sheet, highlight, talk to people, etc.) At 1130, I ask new nurse to help me pass the pills. New nurse says I'll be right there. New nurse doesn't show up for 15 minutes. This nurse is behind with pills and perturbed. New nurse complains to another new nurse (we have a few right now) about not being compensated for previous degree. This nurse quashes urge to strangle New Nurse or run over with med cart.

3. The Slug, sitting on her derriere as usual, reminds me that I didn't update ALL of my PRN docs for the PRN pills yesterday. Literally, out of her mouth (in front of New Nurse, of course), "You had a lot left over last night, so you better fix that." (She followed me on the evening shift--working--or slacking--another double) Reality: I left exactly two, for two meds given within 15 minutes of the end of shift. It didn't help that I was busy and the regs say we should do them at 30 minutes AFTER the drugs are given.

and the topper....

4. While all of this was going on, I get a call from School Nurse that Bubba has a "contagious disease" and must be picked up immediately. Yes, as I'm passing the pills and halfway down the hall. Bubba apparently got itchy at lunch time and someone saw him scratching and reported him to the nurse.

Thankfully, Dahey was available to go get Bubba from school. Bubba has a rash on his leg that I have been treating (with a doctor's advice and good ol' Lotrimin for several days) that is apparently a reportable (only in our school district) that requires a note stating he's been on meds for 24 hours before returning to school. We didn't know about the note part, so that was a blast, considering that we didn't notice it on him until he returned from school one day last week.

Bubba has his note, still itches a little and had a great half a day with dad. He'll be back to school on Monday.

Needless to say, I was so happy to go home at 1600. More later...I'm really going to clean now!