A Day in my Life

Happy May!   Here's how the 1st day of the month went for me.

Today was a work day for me, but I wasn't working the floor.  Every Monday I have a "paperwork" day.  It's a day that I work on things like infection control, vaccinations, labs, schedules...  and all sorts of other things that need to be done.  On these days I start at 7:30, so I get to sleep 30 minutes later too!

5:30 am - time to get up and hit the treadmill for 30 minutes.
Then a shower, get dressed and have breakfast.

7:10 - I'm out the door, heading in to work.  This is my corner of my street.  You can see it looks a little dreary.  It rained all day yesterday, all night and was drizzling as I drove in.

You probably remember that we have been having all sorts of renovations at work.  Our addition is done. One wing is complete and the residents moved into it last week.  Now they are starting on the office area, which includes the nurses station.  The little office I usually use on Mondays had to be emptied out, as well as this whole area. 

 This was our nurses station.  I spent many years behind that desk and it's strange to see it looking like this.

Across from the desk is this area that used to have a big screen tv and more furniture - it's another area that looks really strange!

I was working on emptying the rest of the things from my office and was moving them to the new wing, where I will be sharing an office with my Director of Nursing for about a month.  As I was pushing a cart of things over there, my DON came to find me to tell me that the State was in the building for our annual meeting!

(the sign says Survey in Progress)

If you've been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know this is never a fun time.  Inspectors with clipboards watching your every move, asking lots of questions and often being quite intimidating are no fun.  After hearing this I went over to the new section to help.
The group we have this year seems to have common sense and is acting quite normal - hopefully that will continue.
The day was a hard one though - one of our residents suddenly took a turn for the worse and was placed on Hospice, there were several doctor appointments with new orders, lots of extra phone calls to make, orders to put in and questions to answer.  I was ready to leave at 5 when we got a lab report back that meant another resident had to go to the hospital.
When I finished that and left work it was 6pm

 In the meantime - it rained most of the day and was pretty wet!  This is a field I saw on the way home.

 But then the sun peeked out and let these trees show off the new leaves that are popping.

When I got home, my supper was waiting for me.  This is a spaghetti casserole that I had made and frozen.  Bob had the day off so he had popped it in the oven.  (I'll share the recipe on Thursday

After supper, Bob had to go to a board meeting at church, and I went downstairs to do a little cleaning.  We are having central air installed tomorrow and I didn't want the furnace room to be too cluttered.

 When I finished that I went outside, where it was quite cold, but the sun was shining!  These dwarf lilacs will be opening soon.

It was nice seeing the sun rays hit this area.  Do you see the red bud tree behind the gate?

Then it was time to relax and watch The Voice!
It was a busy day, but another good day!