Deep sea tomorrow, then 3 straight weeks of the kids being home for Christmas vacation...

Morro Bay?

It's not working. Gonna delay the inevitable another 10 minutes with a shower, but I'm ready for bed.

Gonna be a wild day at work today. 11 bed unit, 11 patients none up for transfer or discharge. Two open hearts and two smaller surgeries scheduled this morning. All 4 need to come to us. With no open beds. None of them can hang out in PACU, they need to directly to us immediately from the OR table. Usually we'd just pester for transfer orders on the most stable patients. But there's zero beds available in the building. For a month now they've been running double beds in any room big enough to hold two beds. About 50 patients over capacity and at 100% surge cap. Been on bypass (not accepting transfers or non-critical ambulance) for 3 weeks.

So. I don't know what they're gonna do but I'm damn sure glad I work night shift. Hopefully they figure out something (helicopters were flying all night moving people around and still closed out net zero) before I return.

Sounds like they had the same issues as you. I was in icu this days instead of two late felt due to lack of beds. I think I would have had 3 due to afib but the other 2 were no beds.

I could also tell the regular nurses from the hired guns. It was obvious there was a team and then there were the others.

That might drive up the give a damn meter. It might not, but then it would be in the open.

=;

Your turn!

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