Work never changes, I get there and find I am in charge with 3 RN's and 3 EN's there are 3 staff members leaving at 9pm... so I complain and I call and ask whether we are getting another staff member, they tell me there is no extra staff and that if we need help we need to think about calling our nightshift in early. BLEH!
So I think one of our RN's brains must have infarcted last night, she just didn't seem to be able to do the normal stuff we did for discharges. So I had her coming up to me, "this guy needs a taxi voucher to go home with." So I tell her okay, I will take care of it. So five minutes later we have the old guy that is leaving coming up to someone else letting them know he needed my boss to give him a taxi voucher. I tell him, its okay, I will bring the book down and sort it out shortly cause the boss is gone and I am in charge. So he goes away... for all of five minutes. Someone else comes up to me and tells me, "that guy is waiting for his taxi voucher". I get the taxi voucher book out to shove it up his arse ( can you tell I was kinda annoyed by this stage?), and he is back up at the desk pestering our ward clerk about his pills, argh... so I call the pharmacy and tell him it will be 10 minutes and I will bring everything down to his room and go through it with him. So he goes back to his room and I send for his drugs, and he is back up again within 5 minutes pestering someone else. ARGH! So I got all of his stuff together and as I am trying to tell him about it he is making multiple phone calls... I don't have time to wait for him to talk for 20 mins to whoever he is.
Okay, end rant.
gotta go.. work calls
Laters

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