Saturday, January 18, 2014

fighting the flu

at work... the strongest strain of the h1n1 virus, also known as swine flu, invaded our corporate family last week and we've been pushing it away in every way possible ever since the first case was diagnosed... with 700 staff and 1100 people served each day, that is not an easy task... with the most medically frail people in my care, that makes the challenge even more challenging... and having to direct the nursing response because the don is too inexperienced to take the leadership initiative when necessary does not make it any easier... so i pushed for more nursing response and made some nursing decisions myself and we tested all and isolated two who tested positive and sent one to the hospital as it hit her much harder and moved people from house to house to create an uninfected house and we hope for the best... the one who went to the hospital is not in good shape, it is a very powerful flu strain... we will test again at the end of the week... or maybe that already happened...

anyway, the two tested clean a week later and all tested negative so we made it through the worst of the flu... the one who was sent to the hospital is not in good shape and will likely be in the hospital for several weeks, at least... the frail people living in our homes still have extremely high risk as the flu season continues and we just need to be extremely careful with infection control precautions... complacency kills...

yeah, that's the work life these days... living on the edge... saving lives... and so far, staff are healthy... me too, though i feel the bugs trying to get in...

never give up, never surrender, aye? :)

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