Astrology, Spirituality & Alternative Healing
In reply to the discussion: I have seldom seen such chaos amongst the planets [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)same for me. don't want to get out of bed in the morning and definitely hate to leave my little island of peace.
It's crazy out there. At the hospital, suddenly the seriously ill are having major crises. Trying to get through the chaos is a nightmare. Example: assigned to blood bank for a day, which is usually a peaceful assignment. Had not 1, but 2 transfusion crises. One patient needs special blood ordered from from Red Cross and they wanted to transfuse next morning, then that night, then at our sister hospital, and then ended up moving him to a totally different hospital system. Notes on his medical records hard to read.Dates between card and log didn't line up. I arrange shipment of blood through parent lab. Call parent lab to let them know blood is coming from ARC and specimen is coming from us for pre-transfusion workup. Parent lab says they got specimen yesterday for workup. My records show workup was 3 days ago so expiring at midnight. They insist they don't need it. Then we decide I'll send it down to be held just in case. Then I find out he was drawn yesterday, but patient removed his band. So now he does need another work up. Then I'm informed we don't have space to transfuse at our hospital, so they're going to do it at sister hospital 1/2 hour away. So I have to arrange from shipment of blood from parent lab to our lab for type confirmation and crossmatch, then move it to sister hospital. Then at the last minute, they decide to send him outside our hospital system, so now we have to coordinate shipment of his blood from parent lab to outside hospital if they want it (which also involved the ARC to make sure the paperwork is done properly). Plus it means the new hospital will have to draw him again -- 3rd draw in 2 days for a critically anemic patient who is apparently bleeding internally from...somewhere. And that was just *one* of the transfusion nightmares. I spent the entire day on the phone, either that blood or the other patient's platelets. It got to where when the phone rang, the lab assistants didn't bother to pick it up.They just turned to me and said, "It's for you!"
It's been like this daily. Either the patients or the instruments.