A Day in my Life

 I'm a little late in posting this, but here's how the first day of the month went for me.

We are once again missing 11-7 nurses.  This seems to be a chronic issue, actually in our area it's a chronic shortage of nurses everywhere.

So - on March 1 I started my day early.  I was up at 3 am, and here's the clock as I left the house at 3:40 am.  I'm lucky I live close to work.  It's a 10 minute drive and I was there, ready to take over on our long term side shortly before 4.

You may think it's all quiet during the night, but it's not.  There are several people who are awake and like to be up during the night, others that are confused and are trying to get out of bed.  There are calls for pain meds and at 5 am there is a med pass.  We have to give all thyroid meds, stomach meds... early on an empty stomach.  There are also meds that are given every 6 hours and in our building, that means 6-12-6-12.

When that's done there is charting to do, and a med cart to get cleaned off and set up for the next shift.

Here's the long term nurses station.  My replacement was there at 7 and then I headed to my office.

This is my office door.  One of the residents colored these pictures for me and wrote sweet messages on the back.

One thing I have to do every Monday morning is file a report with our county health department.  It tells how many residents we had in the building on the Saturday before, and goes through several infectious diseases, where I have to enter how many people in the building had them. I'm happy to say we had none.

Because I started so early, I hadn't had breakfast.  So, after filing the report with the health department, I had 2 boiled eggs!

Covid testing continues.  Our staff has to be tested weekly, so I have this set up in my office, and people pop in during the day to have their test.  No covid in our building!

Monday is a day when I have to do a lot of assessments.  Each resident has to have a pain and fall assessment done every 3 months, so I did several of those.  We also have online training that comes out the beginning of each month.  This is one I was working on that was on different virus/infections/bacteria's. 

Because I came in early, I got to leave a little before 2.

The sky was blue, the sun was shining!  I saw these grasses on my way home.  They were about 7 feet tall and were almost glowing in the sun.

And this little stream which had been frozen the week before is thawing!

I stopped to get groceries on my way home, put them away and started some laundry.  Then I took a nap for about an hour because I was going away in the evening.

Bob came home and had supper.  I didn't eat because we had a women's event at church.

This was on my drive to church, about 6:15 in the evening.

We had a wonderful pasta supper, the men served us and then had a speaker talking about life - unborn life and the way it had impacted her life.  It was a very moving night and we really enjoyed the evening.

I got home a little before 9 and relaxed for a while.  This is a digital photo frame our kids gave us.  They can email a photo to an address connected to the frame and pictures pop up for us.  We really enjoy seeing the pictures of the kids and grandkids!

I went to bed about 10:30.  The end of another good day.