Your no friend of mine

Everyday, guaranteed, I recieve bleeps from wards to review patient I don’t look after.

Why?

It’s because these wards don’t know who their buddy is!

Let me start from the beginning.

For a long time in my hospital, and also other hospitals, medical outliers on surgical wards have a habit of being missed for several days or longer. So they’ve started something called a buddy system, which is where assigned medical wards look after medical outliers on surgical wards. Is the system working- is it fuck!

The main problem is, only the consultants have been emailed about the new buddy system and not any of the ward managers or staff nurses. Who came up with that brainstorm? So everyday, I get bleeped from a ward I don’t cover and have to fob the nurse off.

Another good idea ballsed up. Well done guys

 nhsdr

Still alive and kickin in 2007….

I’m being a bit sad now as i’m watching the 1st episode of Celeb BB 2007.

Just had a busy few weeks. I worked Xmas day and did nights over the New Year weekend, which was busy but manageable. Our team was on-call for 2 days and therefore we had loads of patients when we returned to the ward on Tuesday. Thankfully we’ve managed to whittle down the numbers, thankfully by discharging them and not killing them off a la MG ward.

By working Xmas day i got an extra day of holiday, so i need to start using the days of A/L.

My future plans this month consist of: job applications for ST1, MRCP Part 1 exam in Jan 23rd and maybe go on holiday sometime soon. Oh yeah! and to get the DSLR camera i want and maybe do some locum work in my last job!

Dirk Benedict from the A-Team is in the celeb BB house— so cool!