Spring Clean

14th March (Saturday) - When there's no doctors around, what do you do? Instead of sitting at counting down the minutes, it's spring cleaning time. :D Okay, on Saturdays there's only one doctor around, so one person have to attend to him, the rest of us have to do the spring cleaning. Tidy up the counter, tidy up the store, change the linen sheets,  make sure we have enough forms and papers... Stuff like that. I changed the linen, a little different from what I expected, but no biggie, Instead of fitted linen like last time, all I had were sheeted linen, pillow case and blanket. One of the beds has no pillow so I just changed the sheet, then I have to lay the sheet of paper on top as an added layer. Everytime someone lays on top, we just tear the sheet off and insert a new one, neatly reset it.
The thing that shocks me the most was the Director came to do rounds and I did not notice. Oh my dear Lord, when I got out, the others had just finished cleaning the counter, and were asking whether I had seen the Director. I went, "What on earth are you both talking about?" And they said the Director just left, after asking how many staff were on duty. It's a good thing we had more than two working otherwise there is going to be big trouble. Since they said the week before I joined, a patient ended up in a Code Blue. After that incident, we have to make sure there are at least two people on duty.
So the doctor came in later, cause he has some errands to do, once he came in, he said he got a patient coming in, referred by another doctor. A foreigner. Oh dear, he brought a kid along. Sigh, the kid is super active. It reminds me of the really out of control kids that I sometime saw in outside, like supermarkets or kids that you see in big events. The kind that go running around and touching everything out of inquisitive while the parents don't bother to control. This is the one thing that really irritates me. Especially in the hospital, where there's so many things that are sterile, medicines, equipments and needles lying around. Nowadays patients are looking around to blame people, especially in the private sector. Sad to say because now patients know their rights, and they are highly educated. Scary isn't it? I won't go into details in here but long story cut short, the patient was scheduled for op , and with the necessary documents handed in, he's cleared for admission and we can finally end our half-day shift.