One shift week

I was supposed to work thursday night but we played a stroke round of golf for a ridiculous 51/2 hrs, I dont know why it was so slow and I was too tired so I had a sickie, also I'd done zumba on tuesday night which was really good but exhausting. I wish they wouldnt put me down to work on thursdays I can hardly walk after golf but I dont want to miss it because I've missed so much this year and I will loose the fitness to do it. I was supposed to work friday night but they rang just as I went for a sleep before work to say would I like to work the afternoon instead, yes yes yes. So I just did my afternoon shift. Our ward is the winter bed plan they give us extra staff so we get filled up with general patients so I had a cancer patient and a girl with an infection as well as the maternity  patients. They said about the ca lady if she gets a temp do the something protocol I said the what?? They said ring the cancer ward and ask them. Its weird to go from babies to someone with cancer through funny enough the Mums are much more stressy than the general patients.

My husband is telling me a funny story about depression amongst his nursing home people. If you diagnose depression in a patient you get more money for their care so they go round doing depression assessments on them and if they score they send of the results to their doctors to get them to sign them up as depressed. So tonight one of the doctors rushed in to see his patient who was supposed to be depressed, an emergency situation! To make matters worse they had sent him the details of the wrong patient something no one realized till later. He duly visited his patient who was very cheerful and seemed to have recovered from her depression and was very pleased to see him. This is the mad micromanagement of Canberra in action. 

I think hospitals are the maddest places ever.