Recent Thoughts and Events, Part One

I didn't get to this last night. I was exhausted from the week's events. My final official unofficial act yesterday was to remove 3 sutures, a week late, from a staff member's left eyebrow. Seems she was trying to shave her eyebrow near her piercing and sliced open her eyebrow. Rather than return to the ER or even to her doctor's office (God forbid my staff have a family physician to utilize rather than the ER.), she had tried to remove the sutures herself and could not. So she let them go until they were a week over-due in being removed and then mentioned to me yesterday that these needed to be taken out. So, it took me about 20 minutes, in less than ideal lighting to remove these. Gotta love what I do.

I had mentioned that you are never quite sure who your advocates may be in a given situation. The three people in our nursing department who I would have least suspected to be vocally and vehemently opposed to the reason why I was pulled from the schedule were the very people who voiced strong opinions to the powers that be for that decision. And, their reason which they gave to me when they cornered me this week to let me know this, was the same. I am the one person in the department who cares that the job is done right all the time. And, here I am often thinking to myself that absolutely no one notices what it is that I actually do in the nursing department. Guess you just never know.

I will have to follow up more with these thoughts in a bit, I've got a couple of errands to run and some work to do.