Pandemonium

14th August (Thursday) - Wow. Look at how the time flies. Soon I'll be entering my third week. Oh... I just feel that I'm not ready yet. >< Today started off okay, but when it came to 9, ohhh, the discharges just kept coming. One, two, three, four. And each had to be sorted out into their own individuality. I had to shuffle them rapidly and staple the pages together, then carry tons of files with the papers on top to be sent for billing. I ran to the pharmacy to drop off the prescription slips, then to billing to drop of the files so that both side can total up the grand amount. Then I have to run to the computer system and make sure I discharge the patient fully so that housekeeping can come and clean the room for new admissions. It does not help that tons of professors had also chose this moment to drop in. Mayhem.
Let's just say after hammering down tons of filing and documenting later, I begin to suffer from fatigue, not from.lack of sleep but due to exhaustion. How do I know this? I tripped over the chair God knows how many times, and I dropped several things many times, like empty folders that I need to tidy. Everyone was like, "Oh, do be careful." It was when I was tidying things with the clerk that I ended up getting knocked on the head by stacks of paper. Thank God it wasn't heavy, if it is, I would've been KOed. Can you imagine it making it into the CNE talk? Issue in Nursing Practice : Do not go under the cupboard, otherwise you will end up getting KOed by falling stacks of paper. That's when the clerk told me to get a rest.
Speaking of KO, my friend escorted one client down to radiography. She was asked to send him down and then come back up. Instead, what happened was, the patient was asked to get up, and he fainted. YES! He really did! It was drama and the doctors and senior nurses rushed the boy the Emergency Room (ER) and gave him drips. Apparently the poor boy fasted from midnight and his body couldn't take it. No wonder she didn't came back up right away. If she had, she would've ended up in big trouble, leaving a patient behind.
After lunch, everything was back to normal, or so it seems. When I came back at two, the four discharges were taken by another four admissions. One of which is a regular customer whom I met few weeks back. So there was another mad rush on admissions and the computer system. And it did not help with the lightning and rain, causing the power to jump a little and the internet system to become slow, causing several crash on our system. Yikes. Then there's the whole mouse unable to move, no matter how much I get down on all fours and went to adjust the wires. Eeesh, could this day get any more nuts like pandemonium? At least I managed to nail down the whole OT thing by grabbing the patient's file, set it in front of me and flip to find the right info while answering the OT folks on the phone. Yay, at least I got something right.