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Name: Billy
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Knoxville
Gender: Male
Interests: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Invader Zim, The Angry Beavers, Magic: the gathering, Liberty Meadows, dragons, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Halloween, vampires, gay studies, proving doctors wrong, cats
Expertise: most I can't list here
Occupation: LPN
Industry: healthcare
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Member Since:
4/3/2005
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| I know, I know...but it's my favorite line from Sideshow Bob. You guys are getting sick of hearing my tales of woe from the office. I'm tired of having tales of woe from the office. Still have 1 lone nurse practitioner doing the work of 2 doctors, then they complain 'cause we don't see enough patients, then the patients complain 'cause she has no time to look at lab results, medicine refills, etc. We can't even see sick walk-ins. True she could do a lot to speed up (quit talking so much about non-office work, for one) but at the same time there's only so much she can do. It's like you've got 2 horses pulling a wagon, and then 1 of the horses dies and there's no way the 1 horse left can pull the wagon but you keep abusing it because you're mad the other horse dies and then you act surprised when the 2nd one dies. It's the only analogy I can think of. Meanwhile, I'm still having to deal with all this crap even though I'm working on the psych side now. Somedays it sucks being the only competent person. It also sucks to be able to see an arguement from both sides and simutaneously agree & disagree with the opposing views. I read somewhere once that the reason some people never get promoted is because they are so good at what they do that the company is afraid of trying to find someone else who could possibly do their work. I understand the Pope feels the same way. | | |
| Sometimes it just comes out of left field..... I didn't have time to take anything with me for lunch yesterday. By and large, I'd rather pack my own lunch as a way to use leftovers, save money, and show off my culinary skills. But yesterday I was forced to go out. Maynardville doesn't have much to offer so I was thinking about where to go. And the strangest craving came over me. I wanted a Big Mac. Now understand, the last burger I had from McDonald's was around 4-5 years ago. It was nothing but a grease ball on a bun, turned my stomach. I can count on one hand the times I've not finished food 'cause it wasn't edible. If I'm taken to the Arches I'll get grilled chicken, it's the only thing that's not swimming in grease. But this desire was overwhelming. So I get my order & I'm thinking "This is gonna turn my stomach, they can't make a burger to save their lives." And I took a bite, kinda like Squidward trying a Krabby Patty for the first time. (Come on people, if you don't watch Spongebob, you're just sad, pathetic little puppets.) Oh...my.... I swear I don't remember them tasting that damn GOOD! Maybe 'cause it's been years, I don't know. What I do know is that I fell in love with it all over again. And that scares me a little 'cause I had a Whopper addiction before they took out Burger King in town. Is there a support group for people like me? | | |
| I find myself with some actual downtime here in the other office. It's times like this I wish I had signed up for Twitter. I now realize the reason people are blurbing about their day is because they have nothing else going on at that moment & need something to fill the time.
The psych nurse training period is over at the end of this week, thank ya Jebus. It was supposed to extend until the 1st of November, but the girl who I am gonna cover for has to go in for a C-section on the 19th of this month, so I get to go back to the home office early. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed being with some of these people over here but I'm over the drive & I'm over just dealing with it here.
Currently we're discussing healthcare overhaul. Myself, I'm ready to turn the whole ball of wax over to the feds & say "have at it, you can run it like Brittan & Canada." For those who scream the evils of socialism, I would point you to the 2 biggest aspects of American healthcare: Medicare & the Veterans Administration. Who runs them? Why the federal government, of course! And most insurances base what they pay for services ON WHAT MEDICARE SETS AS THEIR PAY GUIDELINES. It's already socialized for heavens sake. If the protesters to healthcare overhaul had to wade through all the crap I do just trying to get a non-preferred medicine approved, they'd change their tune in a heartbeat. (Although, I will admit I don't know what effects [if any] this would have on pathologists in South Dakota.)
Ok, time to move away from such trivial matters and on to the important stuff. We would've liked to have gone to North Carolina for Halloween but due to my work schedule that's not gonna happen. Fortunately, one of Jason's work cohorts is one of these out there witchy-woman types who throws a mega party & we have snagged an invite. Mandatory costumes, zombie tag, scavenger hunt in the haunted house by candlelight & all that sort of thing. Speaking of snagging an invite, Cristie's connection to the local theater troupe has just dropped tickets to a dinner theater production next weekend. Once again, it's not what you know, but who you know.
Now if I can just get in good with Brad & Angelina.... | | |
| Actually, it's more of they really need me. Was on my way to the glass mansion (i.e. the head office) in Knoxville this morning for some tele-med training when my 2nd in command calls. Our part time nurse had to stay home with the sick grandbaby that she's having to raise 'cause her daughter is a lazy mother. They tried to get another nurse from some of the other offices, but people are either out sick or already covering for other areas. So, I had to turn around and drive aaaaalllllllllllllllll the way back to New Tazewell 'cause being the head cheese means I gotta do the work when no one else can. But I really didn't mind. It felt good to be doin' something other than sitting around fielding phone messages. Seriously, that's about all I've done so far with this psych nurse training crap. I could've learned all the procedures & charting practices in a week, but the state in all their glorious wisdom (ha!) has decreed that LPNs working with the behavioral population have to prove they have the educational background, i.e. all this training crap. Right. Like I didn't get a year's worth of theory crammed down my throat in 10 months back in nursing school. Ay yi yi. Anywho, everyone was so thrilled to have me back in the office. But I've been there longer than the other nurses, I know how to make things run, and then there's my sparkling personality. I think that's been missed the most. Some days it's hard being the entertainment. Bad news though...my cute medical supply guy left for another job in South Carolina. Now I'll never find out if his butt really was tight enough to bounce a quarter off...... | | |
| It's funny, I have stuff to talk about all day long, and then when I get home it's like I don't have the heart to sit down & blog. Sometimes I think the stuff just isn't that interesting, or the story is too long, or sometimes I think, "Am I getting tired of Xanga?" It's not that I'm tired with the people, heck no, I talk about you guys with not only other Xangains but those in other areas of my life as well. I just feel like I'm shirking a responsibility to sit down & blog. I even had something private to write about but it's more or less past, so it's not even worth bringing up. And I know I don't have the pics up yet, I need to sit down & do that too. Of note, I'm doing my psych nurse training now. First LPN in Cherokee to do it, far as I know. Apparently the psych people have only wanted RNs to do it (why? I've yet to see a single thing they do that an LPN can't do, and in certain cases I'm much more qualified than they are) but with the budget squeeze they've come to the bitter truth that they've been overpaying a position for years. Meanwhile, it's very, very interesting. The head coordinator is the one doing my training. She's nice & all, I like her...but she's very anal & kinda micro-managy. Anyone who knows me knows I've got an independant streak a mile wide so I kinda bristle over certain things but I have to keep tellin' myself, "don't let it bother you, she's not used to LPNs, make it through this & then you're back on your own turf doin' your own thing." It will be nice to get back to my office too. They've been having chaotic days, which is not surprising considering the time of year but sometimes it's due to me not being there to make the decisions & call some of the shots. In all fairness, they can do without me, but I don't want them to know that, lol. The flu is raising its head here very early. I know we've had several positive cases in our office & multiple reports of flu-like symptoms where people have been told to just stay home & treat symptomatically. How's it going in your areas? | | |
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