Learning How To Live Life

Didn't sleep great. Finally drifted off around 7ish.
It's supposed to be in the 70s til Sunday. WTH? It's mid November! I thought when they changed the dates on DST that was supposed to help with utilities. What good does it do if we're still getting summer temps in November?

No coffee this morning. Finishing off a diet Dr Pepper from last night. I think the supervisor said I have the Friday off after Thanksgiving. I never get Friday's off unless I'm on vacation. LOL! Maybe I'll buy an extra Thanksgiving meal to take home and eat on that Friday.

My favorite pie at Thanksgiving is pumpkin. And I do not enjoy mine with whipped cream but they always put a little dab on at work. I can suffer through. LMBO!

After today, 4 days to vacation. Woohoo!
 
I am officially enrolled in my Health Insurance plan for the new year. It went up $7 a paycheck. It is now gonna cost me $182 a month for coverage. ~Sighs~

I got registered for the Bed Bug class but I can't attend the live class so I'm waiting for the video version. Two hours! I will hafta sit and watch a two hour video on those stupid bugs. They're not even making the nursing staff do it and they need to. The live classes are 8-10 and 10-12. In the morning! No way. LOL

Just gotta call the pulmo doc about some med scripts and do some dishes, shower hang some washing to dry and the rest of the day is mine tomorrow. I am gonna order the meatloaf dinner from Perkins and splurge on the Strawberry & Cream Cheese Crispers. 😋🤤
 
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I remember when I was a kid spending a lot of time outside tromping around in whatever was in the yard. Brother and I would play Star Trek out there in this kind of setting and act like we were analyzing the dry leaves and whatnot.

I remember rolling around in the yard in various seasons and experiencing what nature had to offer. The sound of the dry leaves crunching under our shoes. The colors of fall were always a comfort to me. I don't know why though.

As of late I've been having a hard time sleeping. Part of it is medication related. It sucks. Maybe I'll doze off later while watching tv.
 
I worked in a large hospital for 15 years, in the ICU and OR. The housekeeping staff were, IMO, most important! I don't know what they were paid but whatever it was, it wasn't enough. We (the nursing staff) treated them with the utmost respect, which was well deserved.
 
GoodEnuff said:
I worked in a large hospital for 15 years, in the ICU and OR. The housekeeping staff were, IMO, most important! I don't know what they were paid but whatever it was, it wasn't enough. We (the nursing staff) treated them with the utmost respect, which was well deserved.
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Believe me it's always appreciated. They don't pay us near enough. Our facility pays us enough to barely get by. They don't consider us to be profit earning so they don't pay us much. They wouldn't have any profits without us though. They pay food service more than us.
 
I would like to take you through a day of work at my facility...I work in a very high traffic and busy ER.

A day in the life of dirty toilets and dust bunnies:
3pm Arrive at work and after clocking in we have a brief meeting to give us the patient count and other facility news. Also to get reminded to do our jobs or else. Such fun. :rolleyes:

At that point I grab my cleaning cart and toodle off to get cleaning rags and mops and to fill my cleaning buckets with chemical.

Then I have to check to make sure CT and the ambulance garage have linens and get those stocked if need be. Also twice a day I drag an almost 400 lb. cart of linens to the ER and fill the empty ones. However one fella likes to help with that cuz he knows how hard COPD is on the body. He's a sweetie.

I usually start in the waiting area because there's less people at that hour to try to work around. If the waiting area is full I don't dare mop the floor. I don't want someone to fall plus it is a waste of effort as they come and go and wander around and track the floor up anyway.

Then I head back to the triage and down the one corridor gathering trash and cleaning as I go. I hit a couple offices and the back 3 bathrooms before supper.

Then I go eat and it's back to the back half of the unit where I pull trash for the day shift side. Then I work my way over to my side and start cleaning rooms and all the other areas like the internal waiting room, the Radiology area, the ambulance bay and garage.

The nurses station sits until after shift change due to all the people and activity at that time. I get the other 3 bathrooms and I have 12 rooms to clean on my side plus the exam room for people who've been abused.

The doctors lounge, nursing break room, and the social workers office plus we have a pump room. I am also responsible for cleaning and UVing cdiff rooms and taking care of rooms that have been treated for bed bugs and also scabies and lice.

I get called to clean up spills and other various things I won't mention... :sick:

I get a 15 break at 8pm and 10pm if time allows. I am responsible for sweeping and dusting the entire unit as the others rarely do it if at all. I get left to replace all the paper products so people don't have to wipe their fannies with their hands and wipe their freshly washed hands on their pants.

Also when it's someone's day off or if people are out sick we have to go as a group and team out their areas. I think the most we've had in one night was 4 team outs plus our own areas. On those nights it's mostly trash and dash in our areas because of time constraints.

We are so short staffed that they finally had to bring in a contracted crew to help out. We just can't seem to keep help and ever be fully staffed. It's a sad state of affairs.

I also assist patients and visitors with directions to get places and on occasion I will walk a visitor to another floor to see a patient if security or nursing is too busy to do so. Sometimes I find patient items like glasses left behind when they transfer them to a room upstairs and I will take the glasses to them.

I sometimes will grab a warm blanket for a patient or help them with other small things that I'm capable of doing if the ER is super busy.

Sometimes the ER will strip a room for me so I can just go in and clean it. Sometimes if they're busy rather than wait for them to strip the room I will go in and do it and clean it and leave the clean bedding on the bed so they know it's done.

If I see a patient might be in trouble I will go for help on their behalf. I have often comforted family members or offered to get them a glass of water and tissues and whatever I can do to help. I've even dolled out a hug or two when it was needed.

I am always quietly working in the background but I try to be present for the patients and their families and I try to take care of the staff as best I can. On top of cleaning. I try to bring a little humor where I can to the staff to help ease their day as well. There's a lot that goes into it but that's what I'm there for.
 
I was doing the free trial for Pogo and decided they no longer have enough games there to warrant having a membership. They did away with a lot of them.
 
Fritz said:
I would like to take you through a day of work at my facility...I work in a very high traffic and busy ER.

A day in the life of dirty toilets and dust bunnies:
3pm Arrive at work and after clocking in we have a brief meeting to give us the patient count and other facility news. Also to get reminded to do our jobs or else. Such fun. :rolleyes:

At that point I grab my cleaning cart and toodle off to get cleaning rags and mops and to fill my cleaning buckets with chemical.

Then I have to check to make sure CT and the ambulance garage have linens and get those stocked if need be. Also twice a day I drag an almost 400 lb. cart of linens to the ER and fill the empty ones. However one fella likes to help with that cuz he knows how hard COPD is on the body. He's a sweetie.

I usually start in the waiting area because there's less people at that hour to try to work around. If the waiting area is full I don't dare mop the floor. I don't want someone to fall plus it is a waste of effort as they come and go and wander around and track the floor up anyway.

Then I head back to the triage and down the one corridor gathering trash and cleaning as I go. I hit a couple offices and the back 3 bathrooms before supper.

Then I go eat and it's back to the back half of the unit where I pull trash for the day shift side. Then I work my way over to my side and start cleaning rooms and all the other areas like the internal waiting room, the Radiology area, the ambulance bay and garage.

The nurses station sits until after shift change due to all the people and activity at that time. I get the other 3 bathrooms and I have 12 rooms to clean on my side plus the exam room for people who've been abused.

The doctors lounge, nursing break room, and the social workers office plus we have a pump room. I am also responsible for cleaning and UVing cdiff rooms and taking care of rooms that have been treated for bed bugs and also scabies and lice.

I get called to clean up spills and other various things I won't mention... :sick:

I get a 15 break at 8pm and 10pm if time allows. I am responsible for sweeping and dusting the entire unit as the others rarely do it if at all. I get left to replace all the paper products so people don't have to wipe their fannies with their hands and wipe their freshly washed hands on their pants.

Also when it's someone's day off or if people are out sick we have to go as a group and team out their areas. I think the most we've had in one night was 4 team outs plus our own areas. On those nights it's mostly trash and dash in our areas because of time constraints.

We are so short staffed that they finally had to bring in a contracted crew to help out. We just can't seem to keep help and ever be fully staffed. It's a sad state of affairs.

I also assist patients and visitors with directions to get places and on occasion I will walk a visitor to another floor to see a patient if security or nursing is too busy to do so. Sometimes I find patient items like glasses left behind when they transfer them to a room upstairs and I will take the glasses to them.

I sometimes will grab a warm blanket for a patient or help them with other small things that I'm capable of doing if the ER is super busy.

Sometimes the ER will strip a room for me so I can just go in and clean it. Sometimes if they're busy rather than wait for them to strip the room I will go in and do it and clean it and leave the clean bedding on the bed so they know it's done.

If I see a patient might be in trouble I will go for help on their behalf. I have often comforted family members or offered to get them a glass of water and tissues and whatever I can do to help. I've even dolled out a hug or two when it was needed.

I am always quietly working in the background but I try to be present for the patients and their families and I try to take care of the staff as best I can. On top of cleaning. I try to bring a little humor where I can to the staff to help ease their day as well. There's a lot that goes into it but that's what I'm there for.
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Fritz, your labor is important, undervalued, and often underappreciated. Your efforts make both patients and healthcare workers safer. Not to mention that you must deal with a lot of crap on a regular basis in more ways than one. My hat's off to you, dear girl! 🤗
 
Fritz said:
I was doing the free trial for Pogo and decided they no longer have enough games there to warrant having a membership. They did away with a lot of them.
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it's a good thing because Pogo fills your computer with so many bugs, and they're almost impossible to get rid of without proffesional help...

I used play pogo all the time years ago.. you should have heard the X swearing when he had to try and clear that out of all the bugs it leaves behind, and even afterwards it still leaves fragments behind..terrible...
 
hollydolly said:
it's a good thing because Pogo fills your computer with so many bugs, and they're almost impossible to get rid of without proffesional help...

I used play pogo all the time years ago.. you should have heard the X swearing when he had to try and clear that out of all the bugs it leaves behind, and even afterwards it still leaves fragments behind..terrible...
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I had it years ago when the games were still Java. They got rid of the majority and brought in HD games. I don't think it's as bad anymore.
 
After today, 2 more days til vacation. I'm so looking forward to this. I'm about to head into the kitchen for some coffee. The past few days at work the unit has been full so I can't get a lot done. Trying my best to stay masked up and away from everyone so I might not get sick so much this winter.

I even eat by myself most of the time. There's a little telesitter gal that likes to eat with me. I told her she could as long as she isn't sick or having symptoms of being sick. I did tell her if Covid starts to pick up in the ER I would be eating by myself for my own safety. She was very understanding. She's a nice gal.

It looks like when I get home tonight I will be doing the bed bug class online. It's a 2 hour class I think. I want to get it done and out of the way before vacation. I sure hope they make nursing do it too.
 

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