Thursday June 23 2022

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Hi Tweety

Stars it has been some time since we've heard from Amo

Ado it is so easy to get distracted

NJ22 that is a good practice to have

A fairly good day at work.  Hopefully it'll continue

Did the grocery shopping last night,  got some things for coffee hour at church this  Sunday

Has been gradually cooling down here, will be in the upper 80s today

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

G'day

Joe, hope you have a good day.

I love my  phone and all the it does.  I use ot to buy groceries now   I rarely talk on ot and it'snoften turned off.

Had to take a patient away from witchy coworker not dealing with a demanding patient.  She says she's sick if this pace and today's her last day.  Don't let the door hot you on the way out.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Got up late, but still on time to turn the early Braves game today. I was awarded by seeing the Braves score 5 runs in the 2nd inning. Nice!

It's 'only' 94 degrees at the current moment, or so says one of my weather forecast sources, but it will probably be hotter in a few hours as the sun gets low and closer to sunset.

OMG, Nannie has started doing that dotty old-lady activity of saving her napkins, tearing them to separate them at the folds, and re-folding them, then saving them in a pile. Then she doesn't use them. Right now she is checking her pile to make sure they are all the same, in the same direction. I had a patient at a small nursing home who we would give hand and face towels to fold; it kept her busy and she was so happy when we would bring her another pile to fold....they were the ones she'd just folded, but she didn't know that!

Hubby informs me that our Cable/WiFi company is supposed to be coming by this afternoon to "fix" something (?) so I guess I'd better finish up here. Maybe they won't come until after the ballgame is over? Maybe? We'll see. But I'll probably stop by later ----

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Hubby just heard on the radio that the nursing home Nannie was in for 5 weeks after her hospitalization last year, has been shut down by the powers-that-be for NUMEROUS investigated complaints that turned out to be worse than was thought. 

They had actually tried to charge us for her time there, but it was already covered by her Medicare. They didn't get anything out of us, though! Anyway, the place has been cleared out and all the patients were farmed out to elsewhere. HA! GOOD!

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Nice day here, 59 degrees now, supposed to get up to 65! This weekend it may get into the 80s. Pollen count remains high, sniff, sniff. Just another wash, rinse, repeat day at work. Going to try to watch some of the hearing in a little bit. Our offices are going to move to a different building, and space is a premium. We are expected to work 1/2 time remote, 1/2 time in office which is an issue for my program because we still use paper charts. I will be getting a laptop to use at home that will go in a docking station when I am in the office. Very nice, OCD nurse is going to have to winnow down her collection of printed stuff and I think its going to be very hard for her. I think she prints and saves every email, every document. The crazy one, who I thought was retiring in June, will be here 'til August. Sigh. 

I use my phone way more for apps and internet access than actual phoning. I do enjoy texting silly memes to dd and grandsons. I like the calendar for appointment reminders and driving directions. 

Yup, I remember giving linens to the little old ladies in the nursing home to fold. One lady liked to take a rag and wipe down all the safety handrails that ran down the halls. She would greet everyone she encountered and introduce herself. Even if you had just talked to her. Her name was Grace, and it fit her. 

 

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I can still recite word-for-word the self-introduction made by a patient in a nursing home in 1968, and like you said, even if you just spoke w/ her, you'd hear all her info again. She delivered it in a monotone.

She was raised in a very privileged family and had that distinct Boarding School accent in which she gave her full name, her full address, the name of her dad and the titled job he held, who her husband was, and his job. It's too bad I can't write it out due to HIPAA, even though she's been gone for years. 

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

I'm not above giving Gma some towels and the like to fold. Keeps her busy, and that's one less thing I have to do. She would be stuffing the pile of napkins, etc. down her shirt (or her pants, you never know). 

I just made a poster for the skills fair. I really never thought this would be an important skill at my age. It is what it is. They may laugh, but at least they can take a piece of candy.

Allegedly it is 90 days until we move to the new hospital. But the new road construction will almost certainly delay that by at least a month. Administration is afraid to give a date to the public because it will have to change *again*. 

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Specializes in Private Duty Pediatrics.

When I worked as an aide in a nursing home - that was back in '74! - I remember the night nurse would mess up a drawer filled with pencils, paperclips, erasers, etc. and she would ask our little wanderer if she would help straighten things up. It kept her busy and happy for hours, and she felt such a sense of accomplishment when it was finished.

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