A Fun Monday

25th August (Monday) - Mondays are never really fun, according to most people. Sure, I'm half asleep in the mornings, even if I sleep at 10 sharp, I'll always end up half asleep. God knows maybe I'll have to sleep at 9, like how I used to prepare myself for my government exams. Hm. 25th is the day where the government servants get their payday. I have't get mine yet, sadly. I really want mo-neh (money) to come into my account so that I can use it to buy my beloved books. So many books I really want: Kalona's Fall, House of Night final book: Redeemed, Shopaholic to the Stars, and coming in 2015, The Mediator Book #7 : Remembrance, Princess Diaries #11 : Royal Wedding... Oh, I really want them so bad. Not to mention Final Fantasy Artbooks from Kinokuniya. Ahhhh.
Ahem, where was I before getting sidetracked? Oh yes, Monday. Well, today was a little short-staffed, so we were sent to  help out in sponging and shower. Can you believe we only done two patients and it took two hours? How I sometime love Mondays til Wednesdays because time flies super fast so that you don't have to keep looking at your watch. Today is also rather funny because many patients gave us tons of tidbits: Cupcakes and fruits. Stuff like that.
We were suppose to do discussions today, but because of short-staffed, we ended up being runners. In between, when we have time, we discuss about the hospital SOP (Standards of Practice). Every hospital has a SOP to ensure the standards of their organization are met. Same goes for major companies. Last week I had a chance to send a patient to the DSU on the opposite building via van, so my friend gets the chance to send a patient via ambulance. Nice right? The funny thing was we actually past these group of paramedics who went by us with a stretcher. The ambulance with its red and blue lights flashing outside. So I went to the ambulance to try get the driver's attention. The driver is already at the lobby and he looked stunned to see us. Then he said that the paramedics had already went up. Oh my goodness, we ran all the way down while they went all the way up. There was nothing for us to do except to wait for them to come back down. When they got back down, they transferred the patient over to their stretcher and then she followed her, leaving me and the other girl to become runners in the ward.
Then we moved went back to our discussions of SOP and posting schedules. I hope I'll get to go to other departments soon.