It's August! I have to admit that I'm really not too excited to see August arrive. It seems that summer flies by, and then winter drags along. But, I guess I better just enjoy the weather right now. It's not snowing yet!
Here's what the first day of the month looked like for me.
I started the day with my usual summer breakfast -
refrigerator oatmeal. It's easy to grab and is good with most any fruit.
It was a peaceful, pretty morning. The horses down the street were out enjoying it too.
Here's my desk when I arrived at work at 7:30. I often find a lot of notes or papers left for me, but on this morning, there were only a few.
Our Physicians Assistant was coming later in the morning, so I started by getting charts ready for him. I have to pull labs, blood sugars, vital signs of the people he would be seeing.
Once I got that ready, I had to print a report of all the charting and orders that were done in the last 24 hours. I then go over it to prepare for our morning meeting.
That meeting is at 9:30. All the managers and department heads have to go to it. We discuss what our census is, any admissions, discharges, hospitalizations and how people are doing in therapy. We go over any other issues, and then I do the clinical report which is reviewing the report I had gone over earlier. This way we catch any problems that need to be addressed. I know these things are important but I'm not a fan of meetings! :) This one lasted until 10:30.
This is our PA, Tom. He arrived shortly after the meeting was done. He reviews the charts and then we go see those residents.
After he leaves, I put in orders and print med sheets, and call family members of people who can't make their own decisions to notify them of changes. I got done with this at about 1:30 and had lunch.
In the afternoon, I worked on some infection control things. Any residents that are sick or on antibiotics need to have that info entered into the computer and mapped out to be sure bugs aren't being passed from resident to resident or staff to resident.
I also made this sign to put out in our entry, reminding people to please not visit if they are sick, but if the need to come in, to use a mask.
Then I worked on some other assessments that need to be done on our admissions, and on vaccination reports that have to be done on anyone new.
I got done at 5:15. When I left, one of our residents was sitting outside with his wife. He can't talk well, but told me "It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood", and it was!
I took the back roads home. It was 80 degrees and the blue sky was beautiful! The corn is really growing.
Bob was already home when I got there. We had an easy supper - just leftovers to be warmed up.
After supper, Bob went out to work on the Dining room table he's making. I cleaned up the kitchen, made lunches and started some laundry.
I walked outside to see how he was doing.
Here he is putting a finish on the table top!
I left him and went for a little walk. This is our street.
I came across this cool feather. I wonder what kind of bird it belonged to.
I enjoyed the sun shining through the trees too.
When I got home, Bob was just coming in. I finished the laundry, took a shower and then we relaxed for the rest of the night. It was another good day!
