I wish..this week have been a downright horror...Monday was a horror...then I though Tuesday would be better..turned out to be another horror...then I thought today it would settle down...nope...same old horror...
was bombarded with discharges and new patients..it would have been okie if they had stayed a bit longer...give me time to catch up...they came in one day..and left the next..and they were on god knows how many tablets...
have no idea who is who...or what they are on..or what they came in for...it's absolutely horrible..came back from lunch yesterday to find a note left on my bench...discharge..urgent..ambo booked for 2pm..
I looked at the clock it was 150pm...had 10 minutes max... walked upstairs thinking I had 10 minutes...to find the 2 ambos standing there with their trolley..
I told them...no you can't have her yet...the nurses were like she's not ready...go grab a coffee....hehehee so off they went to the coffee shop...lucky she was an easy one...only a few tablets..and I had stocked her up on Monday...it went smoothly...
today was the same...came up to go see a patient..a transfer from another ward yesterday..to find his doctor standing there saying he can go home...I was...ummmm but I haven't even met him...no one has seen him ..how can you let him go home? ...
the doctor must have felt sorry for me so he updated me on what he's done to the drug regimen...just to give me a headstart...
it was so bad that I faxed through a medprof to a pharmacy for another patient....and the pharmacist rang back...asking about warfarin...told him not on it anymore..haven't been on it since he came in...I must have sounded incompetent..remembered I rang up the pharmacy and they said he was on it...somehow must have checked up on it or left it because I was going back to it...
said I would get back to him....ran upstairs got the history out..flipping through...and I found the answer..yes they had stopped it because he was bleeding....rang back to say yes...no he doesn't need it anymore...
what is really hard about this job is doing things quickly...you really need your wits about you...you can't be tired...you can't be unwell...a lapse in concentration might mean wrong tablets dispensed...some days I go home...and it is when I am in bed that I get anxious...oh no..have I dispensed the wrong thing? have I supplied? or have I forgotten anything?...
tomorrow is already Thursday...usually Thursday I stock up the ward..get ready for discharges for Friday...tidy up loose ends...
the pessimistic me can just see it...all those empty beds that I emptied out today will be filled with new faces and I have to start all over again...can already tell it is going to be another day of horror...
the optimistic me...new day...new start...who knows..may be they will run out of patients to admit...may be it will be a quiet day...
who knows...I can only hope...what I do know is that I am looking forward to a nice long weekend...since Monday is my ADO..yippee doo...:)
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