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Work finally let me actually come in and work yesterday after being budgeted the last 4 or 5 times I was scheduled. All in all, a fairly lackadaisical day. We started out with 7 stress tests, but that got shortened to 5 due to one no-show and one reschedule. So by noon, we were completely done.
The way our schedule is set up, I work long enough to cover the other two gals' lunch and then I go home. They had decided to stick around until I was scheduled to leave in case any other orders came through and then leave themselves. Off they went to lunch and since there was nothing else to do, I popped over to general to see if they needed help and to see how to process a renal scan since we don't do those very often.
I should note here that I was checking the computer every so often for new orders. This is important. When the other two got back from lunch (let's say 1230ish), there was a message from the floor asking when were we gonna do PatentWe'veNeverHeardOf's stress test.
Wait, what?
There were no outstanding orders in the computer. I checked. N checked while on the phone with the floor. Nope, no order.
But, the floor whines, PWNHO has been NPO this whole tiiiiiiimmmme.
Well, when are you going to put the order in so that we, I dunno, KNOW ABOUT IT?!
And here's the real kicker. The order was written on THURSDAY and signed off at 4am on FRIDAY.
The floor got lucky on a couple things. One, we still had tracers we could use. If we hadn't, they might have been SOL. Second, Awesome Cardiologist was willing to drive in from Next Town Over to supervise. I really hope he was coming anyway to read the other scans done that day cuz I would hate for him to drive all that way just to supervise a 4 minute stress.
Now, if this kind of thing happened occasionally, it wouldn't be so bad. We're all human and stuff happens. But this crap happens All. The. Time. Write-ups are pending for the floor because this needs to stop.
The way our schedule is set up, I work long enough to cover the other two gals' lunch and then I go home. They had decided to stick around until I was scheduled to leave in case any other orders came through and then leave themselves. Off they went to lunch and since there was nothing else to do, I popped over to general to see if they needed help and to see how to process a renal scan since we don't do those very often.
I should note here that I was checking the computer every so often for new orders. This is important. When the other two got back from lunch (let's say 1230ish), there was a message from the floor asking when were we gonna do PatentWe'veNeverHeardOf's stress test.
Wait, what?
There were no outstanding orders in the computer. I checked. N checked while on the phone with the floor. Nope, no order.
But, the floor whines, PWNHO has been NPO this whole tiiiiiiimmmme.
Well, when are you going to put the order in so that we, I dunno, KNOW ABOUT IT?!
And here's the real kicker. The order was written on THURSDAY and signed off at 4am on FRIDAY.
The floor got lucky on a couple things. One, we still had tracers we could use. If we hadn't, they might have been SOL. Second, Awesome Cardiologist was willing to drive in from Next Town Over to supervise. I really hope he was coming anyway to read the other scans done that day cuz I would hate for him to drive all that way just to supervise a 4 minute stress.
Now, if this kind of thing happened occasionally, it wouldn't be so bad. We're all human and stuff happens. But this crap happens All. The. Time. Write-ups are pending for the floor because this needs to stop.
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