Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Goat roping

I've told you about a lot of things this summer. However, I've somehow always forgotten to mention these subjects.

Let me tell you about some of the people who work on Fr4C.

Our main housekeeper is an amazingly sweet woman. She bakes a cake for every single person on the floor for their birthday.

There are about 6 or 7 guys who work on our floor full time. They.....add personality. There's a small conference room on the floor with a TV that the guys claimed as the Boy's Room. They eat their lunch in there even though everyone else sits in the actual break room. It smells bad.
For whatever reason, if there are 3 or 4 guys working at the same time, they will often all be down the same hallway. Even if they aren't assigned to that hallway, they'll try to do most of their charting and 'hanging out' down with the rest of the guys. Sometimes a girl will be stuck down that hallway with them and will come seeking refuge with the other females whenever possible.
The guys like to speak in German. They don't know German. They don't care that they don't know German. They have a few favorite words that is their go-to response to everything. I don't get it.
There is one murse in particular who enjoys causing trouble. He once stuck a dry erase marker to the bottom of the housekeeping cart. The poor woman wheeled it down the hall, leaving a long black streak behind her. He will unscrew the top to your water bottle so the next time you take a drink, you get a nice surprise. He will put signs on the patient's doors that don't apply to them. He'll hide your chair in some random room. He turns off the lights to the nurse's station every time he walks by. He throws dirty gloves at you. When I came this summer, the Summer III's filled out a sheet that had the basic questions like 'where do you live?' 'do you have pets?' 'what do you like to do?'. This guy wrote under my interests that I loved goat roping.
I thought I graduated from middle school?

On my first day on the floor, I was told that our secretaries were the ones on our floor who worked the hardest. There are days when I believe it. They are wonderful. They know the floor inside and out. There have been a few days where we have a sub and you can tell.

I've been so spoiled on my floor. The nurses are fantastic. I'm not exaggerating when I say that I got one of the best floors in the hospital. If someone sees something that needs to be done, they do it. You might ask yourself, "Shouldn't all nurses do this?" Yes, they should, but they don't. Call lights are answered by anyone, there are usually 3-4 nurses in a room when a patient gets transferred back from procedure and needs extra help, they are willing to answer questions, and they work together really well. I'm going to miss them.

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