Even though our walls are down in the CT department, all is by no means finished. We had about five extra people in the control room today, and that's ten, counting the full staff that we had. I was on the console today, though, which is on the opposite side of the room from the printer... and communication was practically nil from one side of the room to the other, what with all the people in between... I really felt like I didn't have a clue to what was going on other than the particulars of the patient on the table.... Normally, we lay out our work according to a triage based on four or five factors. We try to do the scheduled patients as they arrive, as close as possible... then the ER patients, then the emergency floor patients (ICU, etc.) and then the floor patients. We used to have some time saved for doing floor patients, but that often left us sitting idle for a half-hour at a time, so we don't do that any more... they just push the scheduled patients back, it seems. So today it was kinda catch-as-catch-can, with the confounding and compounding confusion. I occasionally even had to go into the scan room and ask patients who they were, it was that bad.... But, of course, everything came out quite OK... we did have some grumbling patients when we had to do three ER/ICU patients in a row, though. Interestingly, my legs hurt just as much as the do when I'm running the scan room... it's not just being on them, it's that the tension seems to accumulate in my legs, too. There have been thunderstorms popping up this evening, with one that extends into Nebraska looking like it'll hit us in about an hour... I shall be safely in bed by then. However, it has produced some tornadic activity, even though we're not under a tornado watch, just a severe thunderstorm watch. I guess that tornados are covered under the "severe" part, heh.
lightning and thunder, no rain
water gives us life.
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