yep...it's monday...

for some reason Monday's are always crazy, mainly at work, but today was the worst day ever. It first started with our day care provider called in sick. That really wasn't a big deal because Craig was here to get Jessie off the bus. But it went down hill from there. I showed up to work and not even 5 minutes there the computers went down. The new EMR program we got lost my schedule for the day. I couldn't print out my nurses sheets. We could do nothing. I was lucky that someone on Friday printed a schedule so I went to the copy machine and that stupid thing broke. They brought in a man to fix the machine but he couldn't fix it right away. The hard drive on the copy machine was fried. So, no copies for half the day and when you work in a doctors office you need a copy machine.

I had some patients come in for testing follow ups and when I brought them back their tests where not in their charts. I had to hunt someone down to read their tests. I had one patient that wasn't even supposed to be seen by my doctor. They were supposed to see an Electrophysiologist. I figured this out after I spent my time doing an EKG, blood pressure, heart rate and history.

I had another patient that had labs done and no labs in his chart. So I called the lab company for results. When I finally reached someone from the lab he said it would take some extra time because his computers were down.

I had to work through my lunch because of all the delays. So no lunch for me. I can go without one meal too, but it's nice to have a small break. I don't even think I had time for a potty break. Can't remember.

In the afternoon I had a deaf patient come in for an event monitor. The patient will wear this monitor for 21 days to evaluate their heart. I made arrangements for him to come into the office after clinic so I can help him get started with the event monitor. I called the interrupter last week to come help us. As the patient arrived the girls from the front told me..."oh yea Jody, there will not be an interrupter coming." "They couldn't find anyone to come to help us." At this point I was ready for anything else to go wrong. It worked out ok with the deaf patient. I was lucky the friend he was with could read lips and with my little sign we muddled through. All I knew was sorry and thank you.

I wasn't so sure I could drive home safely, but I did. After looking back I guess my day wasn't so bad, but when things don't fall just right you may have a doctor up set at you. Working with doctors is like working with a different breed. They have rules and moods of their own. Their way or no way.

I am already looking forward to the weekend and can't wait for the next holiday so I can have a few days off.