geee, was i on santa's naughty list?

so after staying up late last night enjoying time with friends after a long day at work trying to be supporting and there for all the people and i planned on sleeping in a bit today... so the phone rings before 8am with a question that was answered a few times in the past few days by at least three different people all of whom said the same thing, but the nurse somehow had no clue... resolved, and even thought happiness and curious were not liking the idea and i hate closing my bedroom door, i attempted to get back to sleep and almost did...

less than a half hour later another call, another client might be going to the hospital because the nurses (different nurse) could not re-insert a g-tube that somehow came out overnight (and not reported or noticed?) and being xmas, we won't have staff to do transportation to both hospital and visit... i get up to head in...

here we are more than twelve hours later and the client did not go to the hospital because one of the nurses figured out how to insert a g-tube (training, training, we need more training) and the other client went home and i got some work done on processes and trainings that will hopefully continue to reduce the need for emergencies and phone calls before and after hours and then i spent the afternoon visiting with everyone and seeing presents and having a grand old time wishing everyone merries and happies and all that sort of fun and finally headed home...

with a headache... not enough sleep, too much party last night, no food today, whatever... ate some dinner, salad and hot dogs (ok, half health) and fell asleep... and then, the phone rings again... a former employee visiting is disturbing the employees there by questioning their job skills (a former lpn resenting the rn, for one thing) and it's after bedtime and i tell them to instruct her that it is time to leave and if she refuses to leave, they will call the police...

an hour and a few phone calls later, my boss fills me in on the history behind this particular employee and the trouble she has caused by contacting families of clients and threatening lawsuits and media involvement... staff overreacted and called me before letting supervisors know what was going on... the visitor finally left and the supervisor and an older nurse who new the history said the visitor may have been drinking, though the staff said she was not... definitely could have been better communication... the nurse who was upset should have let the supervisor and other nurse know there was a problem, but he said there wasn't when they called... so... more training...

head still hurts... would have been great to sleep through the night... curious wants her evening petting, happiness wants another walk, tough sleeping with needy kids around... so watching the dr who xmas show sort of... might take a shower and try to fall back to sleep when it is over... and thanking santa for the most unusually busy and stressful holiday... imagine if i was heavily into celebrating, aye?...

narf :}