A Day in my Life

It's March!  For a month that only has 28 days, February seemed long.
Here's how I spent the first day of March.

 I left for work about 7:10 and was greeted with this sunrise!

I started at 7:30.   One of the first things I do every day is go onto our pharmacy website and check for notifications of meds that the insurance company isn't going to cover.  It's really quite frustrating. They can cover something for months, and then suddenly it isn't covered.  Then I have to fill out paperwork explaining why the patient needs it, or talk to the Dr if there is something else that is covered and will work.  There is usually one or two of these a week.  On Friday there was one, so I got the paperwork printed off and filled out for the Dr to sign, and faxed it to him.

 This is a fun little pad of awesome citations that I picked up somewhere.  I try to put these out anonymously every once in a while.  I stuck one on someone's door so they would find it when they came to work. (They don't read this, so they won't know where it came from!)

I also print off all the orders and nurses notes from the last day so we can go over them, I check the nurses on both wings to make sure all is going well.

We have a managers meeting at 9:30 - Director of Nursing, Unit managers, Administrator, Social Worker,  Dietician, Activities Director, Maintenance, Admissions Coordinator.  We review any issues, potential admissions, Insurance cuts, infections, falls...  This lasts until about 10:30.

One of my jobs is Infection Control.  I track all infections - did they come in with it, or develop it after they came?  What type of bug, where was it, what antibiotic was used, is anyone on isolation precautions, are there any trends indicating it is being spread in the building?  It's all put together into monthly sections and kept in a book for the year.  On this day, I started wrapping up February, so it could be reviewed with the other managers next week.
It's been very busy - one nurse had a surprise surgery, another fell and broke her wrist so I've had to work extra on the floor.  That meant that my 40 hours were done by 2pm and I had to leave early, which didn't bother me at all!

 I went to Meijer to pick up a few groceries.

 And then had a manicure!

Here's the drive back home.  After that pretty sunrise, it got quite cloudy out.

I got home at 4 and Bob arrived shortly after.

 Bob and I went out to the Outback for supper and had a yummy meal!


Then we went and picked up Alaina and Ruby for an overnight stay.

Remember the playhouse?  We picked up some artificial flowers and put them in the window boxes.  After we got them in, I went to take a picture of Bob and the girls and they wanted a "crazy" picture.

 I had picked up some fun things for the playhouse so the girls were checking them out.  Here's Ruby in a chef hat and apron...

And Alaina with a cash register.

The girls had something for me too!  Alaina drew the bird picture and made me a necklace.  Ruby made a necklace too - the one with the yellow beads.  So sweet!

 Alaina had to show us something new she learned - the Macarena!  Do you remember that craze?  She did it pretty well.

Then they asked Alexa to play disco music and did a little dance.  I have no idea where they even heard of disco music, but they had fun.

They settled down to watch a movie, and I made this stew, because I knew the next day was going to be busy.  When I got it going in the oven I joined them.
We had a nice evening together.  The girls wen to bed about 9:30, I went around 11.
Such a nice day.  Welcome March!