Neither rainy days nor Mondays ever get me down. The combination, however, is another story. It was raining a few Mondays ago when I arrived at the hospital. I got there at my normal time and made the walk from the employee's parking lot to the entrance in a light rain. I walked fairly swiftly and with my head tilted slightly forward in an irrational but natural position. I reached for the door of the side entrance when I felt a presence behind me. A quick glance confirmed that it was a female and so I opened the door for her as I'm accustom to doing for women. As she passed, I noticed the letters “RN” on her employee badge so I wasn't at all surprised when she didn't acknowledge me in any way.
Had I been carrying a load of firewood and dropped it on both feet in order to open the door for her, she still would not have acknowledged me. Open a door for a woman in “Housekeeping” or “Foodservice” and she'll react as if you've just handed her cash. Open the door for nearly any other woman and she'll respond with a “thank you” or a nod. The RN, however, expects the door to open. In my 18 months in healthcare I've come to a couple of conclusions. One is that medical profession is not unlike any other profession in that there is something of a caste system within. And I've also concluded that men who fantasize about nurses most likely have never worked with any.
I dressed out in the locker room and began my day. I generally stay within the confines of my department, but there are days that I have to attend to my “Code Cart” duties. They used to call those things “Crash Carts” but I figure someone thought the word “crash” had a little too negative connotation and “code” simply sounded better. Wikipedia describes it as “a set of trays/drawers/shelves on wheels used in-hospital/emergency rooms for transportation and dispensing of emergency medication/equipment at site of medical/surgical emergency for ACLS/ALS protocols and potentially save someone's life.” I couldn't have written it better myself. I have nearly fifty of those carts throughout the hospital to attend to. My aim is to make sure the non-pharmacy items have not reached their expiration date. I took a cart from the department and loaded it with the supplies I needed to fill the code carts. I exited the department and headed out with my code cart cart.
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