I am awake at the crack of dawn, but my ass is not heading to any mall or store for shit! I briefly thought about but then I could not think of one thing that I needed bad enough to deal with all the stores packed with inbreds. So I may surf the internet and check out some things on cyber monday.
There are a few items I am shopping for like a new laptop and I want to replace my GPS with a newer bigger one - maybe a 5 inch touch screen!! They are dirt cheap and I do not need one but I want one.
The laptop may wait until my home closes. I have been looking for about a month and sort of know what I want and what I want to spend. Maybe nextweek I will head out to the stores and poke around a bit.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
The search
So the complex I am being housed in plastered a flyer to my door over the weekend. It seems that the annual fire inspection will take place this week. This involves the maintenance people inspecting the apartment to ensure all the fire alarms are in working order and the extinguisher is working and stuff like that.
We have our dogs here for the last few weeks of my contract and have not paid the fee to the complex. So this little inspection throws a wrench into our arrangement. So, today we will hide all evidence of the critters. We will take them to the park and hide out until the fire inspections are complete.
I am more than sure these inspections are also to root our any proplems within the complex such as illegal dogs, messy people or apartment destruction. This is why I hate apartments - because they find a way into your home and snoop around.
We have our dogs here for the last few weeks of my contract and have not paid the fee to the complex. So this little inspection throws a wrench into our arrangement. So, today we will hide all evidence of the critters. We will take them to the park and hide out until the fire inspections are complete.
I am more than sure these inspections are also to root our any proplems within the complex such as illegal dogs, messy people or apartment destruction. This is why I hate apartments - because they find a way into your home and snoop around.
The final stretch
Less than three weeks left in Texas! Thirteen days until the house closes - I am not holding my breath on that one. We still have no work on the second appraisal and it seems like it is dragging by. If it takes them three weeks to even obtain an appraisal then what are the chances all the approvals will be done in under two weeks? I am trying not to think about it too much!
I have a total of 11 shifts remaining. I am betting that more than half of them I am going to be floating to other units. Floating to another critical care area is not a bad thing, but floating to one of the horrid step-downs or telemetry units is just a miserable day.
I am trying to keep an open mind, but it is all I can do to stay positive in one of those wretched areas.
It seems that the unit I was contracted to has dwindling census and the hospital organization has decided to shift some of the overflow to the main hospital causing lower census and thus causing contracted labor to be dumped in the float pool. Not what I signed up for and I have no problem cutting a running if it appears I will be floated in excess.
The fun starts tomorrow!!
I have a total of 11 shifts remaining. I am betting that more than half of them I am going to be floating to other units. Floating to another critical care area is not a bad thing, but floating to one of the horrid step-downs or telemetry units is just a miserable day.
I am trying to keep an open mind, but it is all I can do to stay positive in one of those wretched areas.
It seems that the unit I was contracted to has dwindling census and the hospital organization has decided to shift some of the overflow to the main hospital causing lower census and thus causing contracted labor to be dumped in the float pool. Not what I signed up for and I have no problem cutting a running if it appears I will be floated in excess.
The fun starts tomorrow!!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
What Time It..
This daylight saving time has screwed me up. That along with my recent travel has my sleep to wake inner clocked all screwed up.
Last night I went to be at 8pm and am wide awake at 3am. Some of that is thanks to the dogs! I saw one of them out of bed with that, 'I should pee here on the floor' look in her eyes. So I get up and walk her all around the complex.
I am starting to focus on their bowel movements. She did not poop yesterday. This is unusual because the dogs usually poop multiple times per day. So for her to go an entire day without pooping it is cause for concern.
Maybe I will try sleep one more time..
Last night I went to be at 8pm and am wide awake at 3am. Some of that is thanks to the dogs! I saw one of them out of bed with that, 'I should pee here on the floor' look in her eyes. So I get up and walk her all around the complex.
I am starting to focus on their bowel movements. She did not poop yesterday. This is unusual because the dogs usually poop multiple times per day. So for her to go an entire day without pooping it is cause for concern.
Maybe I will try sleep one more time..
Monday, November 8, 2010
fat nasty troll two
One more little gem from the fat nasty troll manager.
It seems one of the pool nurses was searching for something online. The chubby manager called this nurse out where she was sitting. She said, "I will have no online shopping on my unit."
I did not witness this little exibition, but I was told about it later. It seems the nurse online was looking up a diagnosis or something medical that she wanted more information about and chubs had to stick her fat nose in it.
I so wish it had been me! I would have cruicified the fat bitch! I have a few weeks left and God help me if I land there on my last day! I will personally make it my goal to bait this fat woman and take great pleasure in putting her right!
I know I am being petty, but I hate these underqualified people who are placed in a semi-management position and feel they deserve to talk down to staff. It serves no purpose and I will be happy to release my venting on one who clearly deserves it!.
It seems one of the pool nurses was searching for something online. The chubby manager called this nurse out where she was sitting. She said, "I will have no online shopping on my unit."
I did not witness this little exibition, but I was told about it later. It seems the nurse online was looking up a diagnosis or something medical that she wanted more information about and chubs had to stick her fat nose in it.
I so wish it had been me! I would have cruicified the fat bitch! I have a few weeks left and God help me if I land there on my last day! I will personally make it my goal to bait this fat woman and take great pleasure in putting her right!
I know I am being petty, but I hate these underqualified people who are placed in a semi-management position and feel they deserve to talk down to staff. It serves no purpose and I will be happy to release my venting on one who clearly deserves it!.
fat troll manager
I am filled with dread! I have had a full seven days off and my return to work looms near. I don't hate the unit where I work, I hate the floating to another unit. The step-down units are horrid and as bad as I remember from my last assignment with this hospital.
The units are unorganized and poorly staffed. The charting system has been bloated with so many mandated requirements that it takes forever. Equipment does not work and the whole system there is flawed.
A week ago I was working in one of the nasty step-down areas. I arrived late because there were mixups in the staffing department. Anyway, I am there working a few hours when this woman approaches me. I amtold later she was the manager of the unit.
This woman says, "do you have room XX?"
me, "yes I do, what cha need?"
her: "we seem to have a problem."
me: "okay?"
her: "you have failed to fill out your hourly rounding sheets!"
me: "what is that?"
her: "Excuse me! We had a meeting about this just this morning where all of YOU were instructed of the importance of completing the hourly rounding sheets!"
Unit Secretary: "He was not here this morning - staffing had him all over the place"
her: "oh! Well you should still know about the forms they are required throughout the hospital."
me: "I am not from this hospital. I am a traveller and I floated here and we do not use them in the unit where I come from."
her: (in a very condesending tone) "and just where would that be?"
Me: "I am ICU we pretty much are in the rooms more often than every hour."
It was all I could do not to get up in this plump woman's face and tell her to get the fuck away from me. The hourly rounds are a fucking joke! The stupid rounding is just another idea of lazy administration thinking they are being proactive. The truth is the nurses fill the form in at one time at the end of the shift - effective!
The form itself has every hour listed to the left and about 10 boxes to be completed each hour. The first box is initial, the second is time! WTF? The time is preprinted.
So, after talking to this frumpy ass woman I went back and placed little smiley faces on my forms - if I am floated on my last day I will spell out fuck you on each line!
The units are unorganized and poorly staffed. The charting system has been bloated with so many mandated requirements that it takes forever. Equipment does not work and the whole system there is flawed.
A week ago I was working in one of the nasty step-down areas. I arrived late because there were mixups in the staffing department. Anyway, I am there working a few hours when this woman approaches me. I amtold later she was the manager of the unit.
This woman says, "do you have room XX?"
me, "yes I do, what cha need?"
her: "we seem to have a problem."
me: "okay?"
her: "you have failed to fill out your hourly rounding sheets!"
me: "what is that?"
her: "Excuse me! We had a meeting about this just this morning where all of YOU were instructed of the importance of completing the hourly rounding sheets!"
Unit Secretary: "He was not here this morning - staffing had him all over the place"
her: "oh! Well you should still know about the forms they are required throughout the hospital."
me: "I am not from this hospital. I am a traveller and I floated here and we do not use them in the unit where I come from."
her: (in a very condesending tone) "and just where would that be?"
Me: "I am ICU we pretty much are in the rooms more often than every hour."
It was all I could do not to get up in this plump woman's face and tell her to get the fuck away from me. The hourly rounds are a fucking joke! The stupid rounding is just another idea of lazy administration thinking they are being proactive. The truth is the nurses fill the form in at one time at the end of the shift - effective!
The form itself has every hour listed to the left and about 10 boxes to be completed each hour. The first box is initial, the second is time! WTF? The time is preprinted.
So, after talking to this frumpy ass woman I went back and placed little smiley faces on my forms - if I am floated on my last day I will spell out fuck you on each line!
Sunday, November 7, 2010
mello sunday..
I sit on the sofa watching television with two snoring dogs next to me. Life is good today!
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