Oh, it wasn't Monday, it was the day after a holiday and I could tell. People who were gone all week this week are buried on their return to the Hotel. (Yes, vacation is nice, and so is having that extra day until you return).
I hoped to get one of our patients set up for a clinic visit. I was greeted by the gentleman who waters the plants in my temporary home. "Don't get him upset" was what one of my coworkers said.
It's nice to know the volunteers rate higher than the actual employees here. Did I want to be in "his space"? No. Do I work here? Yes. Do I rate higher as an employee trying to do my job in a temporary location? I should! I take care of ALL my assigned patients, not just the plant guy.
Unfortunately, I'm not the only refugee in the building. Our boss has decided to move one of my cohorts, too. He/she is not happy.
To top off my day, I was working with a patient and found out he got his new stuff from the Hotel to work with us. He just needed to download one little thing. We also found out (in doing our test) that the one little thing was discontinued...on Labor Day. Ugh! Glad he can use his adaptive equipment in other ways, just not for what we intended.
Time to go to Plan B....stay tuned.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Thursday, February 9, 2012
How to have fun at work
I am so happy now most of our inspections are over for a while. Whew!
Now, I'm back to having fun doing other random stuff. Here's a few of the fun things I've gotten to do.
1. Keep the patient who wants to get me a plant for my office from getting in trouble with security. He keeps telling security he'll just borrow (er, steal) one or two from the lobby.
No thanks, I'm allergic to tropicals, especially ones that don't belong to me.
2. BLS class. Wow, things really have changed in the last couple of years.
3. Regular rehab groups. These support groups are arranged by our psychology staff and mediated by the presenters, which could be a physician one day, physical therapist another day or recently, yours truly.
I had the interesting class: I talked about education materials (like these) available at the Hotel's web portal. I even had handouts. To make it easier for patients to find information, the occupational therapists loaned me some laptops for patients to use.
I didn't have snacks, but it was a lot of fun.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Dr. X. is back in the house and she had me researching some equipment for the home health nurse to use. If we could get it, it would be very, very cool.
I won't hold my breath, but stay tuned...
Now, I'm back to having fun doing other random stuff. Here's a few of the fun things I've gotten to do.
1. Keep the patient who wants to get me a plant for my office from getting in trouble with security. He keeps telling security he'll just borrow (er, steal) one or two from the lobby.
No thanks, I'm allergic to tropicals, especially ones that don't belong to me.
2. BLS class. Wow, things really have changed in the last couple of years.
3. Regular rehab groups. These support groups are arranged by our psychology staff and mediated by the presenters, which could be a physician one day, physical therapist another day or recently, yours truly.
I had the interesting class: I talked about education materials (like these) available at the Hotel's web portal. I even had handouts. To make it easier for patients to find information, the occupational therapists loaned me some laptops for patients to use.
I didn't have snacks, but it was a lot of fun.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring. Dr. X. is back in the house and she had me researching some equipment for the home health nurse to use. If we could get it, it would be very, very cool.
I won't hold my breath, but stay tuned...
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