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[disneydream06]

sparky955 was wondering about my new station, so I thought I would try and paint a picture of what it's all about.
I work in the Mary Brigh building, 7th floor, on the D/E unit.
The hospital is/was a Catholic hospital and so all the buildings, until the newest one, were named after nuns that ran the place. The newest one was "sold" to the highest bidder, aka somebody donated a buttload of money and got his name on the new building. :o
MB7DE is an ICU/Intensive Care Unit station that takes care of Vascular and other surgical patients. It also gets overflow from the MICU, Medical ICU station.
The station has 18 beds and is kind of shaped like a big C. It is divided into two sub units D and E. The biggest thing that does is it allows them to close one side down when we don't have enough patients. Otherwise there isn't any difference between them, and they are only divided by a set of "fire" doors. lol...
We have 3 supply rooms and I would love to meet the idiot that set them up. We have one medication/supply room on each end and then we have the third room kind of located in the middle. As for the idiot, the first thing that comes to mind, in the central room we have the suction containers, but the tubing you use with the suction containers are in the other two rooms.
The hospital is in the process of putting locked entrance doors on all the ICUs, but for some reason 7DE still doesn't have theirs. 

Not sure what more to tell you about the new station.
Any questions, ask away. :)

I think I mentioned getting a PIA email at work Friday night.

I got an email from the nurse manager from another station. Somebody I have never met.She wrote me to TELL me, not ASK me that I was going to help orientate one of her new aides.
EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What would be wrong with being polite and asking me to do it.
Personally I HATE orientating people. I have been there forever and I know what I am doing, but it's hard to translate into orientating somebody else. :o I get my work done, do I always follow the letter of the law, not necessarily, how do you teach around that. LOL...
Oh, and she did stroke me ego by saying when she was discussing with somebody about needing somebody to help do some orientation in the ICU my name was the first to be mentioned. So I guess I am honored, but...
Anyway, her new aide is pretty much done with her orientation and will be able to float to other stations soon, and so the manager wants to get her some orientation to other parts of the hospital before she has to. Isn't that nice? I never got anything like that throughout my career. :o
She understands that I might have to float off my unit and 99% of the time when that happens you sit with confused patients some where, but that's okay because the new aide needs some orientation on how to take care of confused patients.
Again, I have never gotten that throughout my career.
Anyway, that's fine and dandy, but when you are taking care of a confused patients, one of the things you want is a quiet room, but teaching somebody is not a quiet thing. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!
I am praying that my station does not float me. :o
Oh and one little stumbling block, I don't remember how the nurse manage worded it, English is not the new aide's first language. She can carry on a conversation fairly well, but she has trouble with medical terminology and such things.
So in other words she has trouble doing her job. :o :o :o
I am all for Equal Opportunities, but when you are dealing with medical care in an English dominated country, you should be able to speak/understand enough English to do your job smoothly.
The Mayo Clinic is all about Inclusion and the majority of aides they hire come from the immigrant populations in Rochester. Frustratingly, many of them barely speak English. I just really question how they can do the job if they don't understand most of what is being talked about around them or if they can't communicate what is happening around them.
I hope I don't sound horrible saying this, but it is really a safety issue in a hospital setting. :o

Comments

[thewayne]

I agree. In a medical setting, you need to have extreme fluency in English for the medical terminology. Absolutely. Too risky otherwise. Mistakes happen regardless, but to risk compounding them?

[disneydream06]

Thank you for the support. :)

[kaishin108]

Suction and tubing in two separate supply areas, that is bonkers.

I wish you could get extra pay for training someone. How nice for her, sighh. She really could have asked you, jeez.

[disneydream06]

There really should be bonus pay for orientating people. :o

[kaishin108]

There should be, or at LEAST a polite asking you to do it, sigh.

[disneydream06]

There should also be bonus pay when you have to sit with confused patients. :o

[kaishin108]

Yes! How draining.

Speaking of that, I hope your Dad is okay...

hugs, helen

[disneydream06]

He has had some good days and some bad days.

[kaishin108]

Ahh right. It is so hard to get old, sigh.

[disneydream06]

His big problem seems to not being able to remember things some days.

[kaishin108]

Oh how sad, and hard on you!

[disneydream06]

Selfishly, many days I just want my old life back. :(

[kaishin108]

Awe yes. You are due for something great to happen.

hugs, helen

[disneydream06]

Thank you. :)