hot weather funny shift

The hot weather has really arrived, 38 degrees at 8pm. Evening shift. Nice ladies and cutie babies. We tape record our reports usually now as it is quicker and people get off in time but our Num has decided we should go back to giving reports at the bedside. We have tried this before and there were big problems with confidential info, which is just about everything esp in this town where everyone knows everyone and probably went out with them, even peoples names are private and mothers are very touchy about all that stuff (think of mother lions). We have a lot of DOCs issues, drug dependancy, depression and family problems. Everyone has pointed out to NUM the problems but she is determined to do it so I suppose they will have to when she is around. I tried to read the document from some high up committee about report giving. It was unbelievable, as if hand washing became the topic of a doctorate thesis, but then it probably is the amount of time and effort they have spent on bloody hand washing, as they still shove patients all over the place without regard to infection. The real issues that we have problems with just get no attention, I think those nutty committees arnt interested in the real problems we have things like "hand washing" "report giving" which fit into an advertising campaign model so they get hold of that like it was the meaning of our work.