I spent the last week doing general staff relief and seeing a little bit of everything. Doing lots of diet eds and seeing interesting patients while trying to go a little quicker and get my patient numbers up for the day. That's been a challenge for me- moving faster through the prepping and charting (and our charting is quite extensive and somewhat inefficient) so that I can see more people. I think I've been making good progress on this, until last week when our census was way down and there just weren't enough patients to go around. Looks like that's been resolved as of today.

Couple of interesting things from last week... I worked on Saturday to get a feel for what a weekend was like here. On Saturdays the general plan is 2 RDs, and only new high risk patients are seen. We don't set up any follow-up assessments for Saturdays but we will see Monday follow ups if it is slow. It was a pretty mellow day but we did get to see a couple of traumas.

I went in to do a DM diet ed for a patient last week, who turned out to be an old friend of my father's. So that was awkward. I guess that's the trouble with working close to your hometown. Speaking of home, there's a lot of homeless people that come into this hospital-- is anyone else finding that to be true? Sometimes diet eds are ordered from the MDs, which I'm finding very difficult to do with this population.

Hope you all had a good weekend! 3 weeks......