A day in my life - May!

Another month has flown by!  In our area we were happy to see April, with all the snow, wind and cold gone.  May came and with it a beautiful day!
Here's how my day went.

 The morning started out clear and sunny.  I left for work about 7:40, it was 55 degrees when I left the house which felt so good I almost left my jacket behind.

Here's my desk when I arrived.  I always have a few things people leave for me to take care of. There wasn't much this morning!

I started by running a report of any new orders and progress notes written in the last day.  I print it and then read over it, highlighting any concerns.  We have a meeting at 9:30 which is attended by the Administrator, Director of Nursing, Social Worker, head of PT, Dietician, Maintenance...  We talk about census, any new admits, discharges, any maintenance concerns, and I go over any nursing issues that have come up on the report I ran earlier.
At about 10:30 our Physicians Assistant came in.  He sees any residents that we feel needs to be seen, and reviews recent labs.
He was done around noon, and after he left I inputted new orders and printed new med sheets and notified families of changes.
I took a lunch break, then worked on getting vaccination records on some of our new admissions.  I also worked on infection control reports and put in orders for a new resident who was arriving later in the afternoon.
We have a new Director of Nursing and I showed her how to do a few things that I had been doing while we were without someone in that position.

Before I knew it, it was 5pm and time for me to leave.  I had subs ready to go, so I called Bob and asked him to pop them in the oven.

 When I left work it was 80 degrees!  What a gorgeous day.  I saw this pretty sight on my way home.


We had our subs for supper and then did a little walking in the yard.

We almost missed this toad sitting on our garden gate.  He blended in and almost looked like a rock sitting there.

 Bob's been doing some work in the back of our yard.  We have a lot of tall, skinny pine trees which are in poor condition.  There are power lines back there and we've been concerned they would fall on the lines.  So, he's been taking them down.  He took advantage of the nice evening to cut a few more down.

Timber!

The tree is down, and cut up.  A little more firewood!


We spent the rest of the evening just relaxing.  It was another good day!