As I have mentioned before, I like to get to work early to prep for the day. This morning was no exception. Got all my charts prep and exam room ready for action!
Now let me back up. I know my tech is suppose to get here 8am, but occasionally I notice she strolls in a few mins late, 8:05...or 8:10...but no big deal, as long as she still gets her work done.
So knowing this, since she usually comes in later than 8am, I start my patient care before I even see her in the morning, I just assumes to comes into work on time sometimes because I get so busy, I don't have time to micromanage her schedule.
So this morning was like all the other mornings, I start patient care without seeing her come in. I'm pretty much on my third patient before I realize I haven't seen her yet. But I look over and the technician room is opened and the lights are on...that usually means she's here. WEIRD. So I've got three people waiting for her that needs some sort of auxiliary test or help with an order. So by now I'm a little concerned that she didn't show up to work or is just chit chatting with someone in clinic somewhere. So I run around clinic looking for her and I was shocked when I found her! SHOCKED!
She was getting strapped onto a stretcher by two EMT guys and then wheeled out of the building. O_O YES! My thoughts exactly! "WHAT HAPPENED???"
So I guess the story was that she was feeling dizzy and then she had chest pains and she wanted to faint. Probably some blood pressure or heart issue. OH MY GOSH, I felt terrible! Here I was getting all angry at her for not doing her job and then I find her getting wheeled off to the emergency room! I'm such a terrible person! Ugh.
So after wallowing for a little bit, I snapped back into clinic mode. Let me remind you that I still had THREE people waiting for me, and two more people I needed to see! This part of the morning I really don't remember how I did everything so quickly...but somehow I managed to run all the auxiliary tests, diagnosis someone with advance disease (patient consultation, education, prescribe medication), give two other exams and send someone off to the medical hospital because they probably needed surgery. I somehow pulled all of this off only being about 10 mins late for ONE patient and I still somehow finished 15mins early. CRAZY right?
But because I did everything so fast, I didn't have time to chart, so I had to spend my entire lunch time recalling everything I saw and charting it down for every patient. My charts are starting to blend together and really suck. I've got to devise a better system to prevent this from happening. I have such a terrible memory, why do I always think I don't need to write things down because I saw it and I'll remember to chart it later??? I need to hire a scribe. They just sit there and write down my findings as I call them out during the exam. That would be really nice.
Anyone want to be my scribe? I don't have money to pay you. LoL.
Actually, just having a tech would be really nice right about now. *sighs
I hope she's doing ok and I wish her a speedy recovery.
I'm not looking forward to more days without her :( It's going to be chaos! If conditions like this persist, I'm just going to quit. This is too stressful for me to handle!
This is me at work without my tech:
not a pretty picture........
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