Re: "Other duties as assigned"

[Delores234]

Holly, I have to tell you my best experience a couple of months after my first DON position.  I was called on New Year's Day just before I was to service 14 people dinner [about 1PM].  A resident had drowned in one of my sister facilities and they could not find the administrator or the DON so.....yep, they called me.  I arrived to the HD, the coroner and the police.  During the investigation a charge nurse called me aside and said they were missing one resident. He wandered off.  Remember this was not my facility so I asked for a description and was told he had a large scrotum that was noticeable.

The facility was close to a mall and he went there frequently.  So... I went to the mall [everyone present during the drowning were not allowed to leave] and tried to find a 75 year old man with dementia and a large scrotum.  I found him and brought him back.  Can you see me talking to all of the homeless men in the mall on New Year's Day and checking out their scrotum?  Close your eyes it will come to you.  Not a pretty picture.

Oh, you want to know how the resident drowned?  Sitting in a wheel chair he turned on the water in a bathtub in a private room [low tub] and must have leaned over the tub, the wheel chair tipped and the back rest pinned his neck and head under 4 inches of warm water.  I had told the sister facility to disable the tub as it was not used and they said I was too fussy; it had been there for years and no problems.
Delores

Did I mention this snake was quite active?
 
I stood in front of it and tried to look as menacing as possible when one really wants to climb up onto the roof.  I yelled at it, and it turned around and slithered away.
 
We have 2 maintenance men, a full housekeeping staff... why did they call me???????
 
For those of you keeping score, in my tenure as interim DON (which began 3/19) I have had a DHEC visit, a fracture of unknown origin, a missing fentanyl patch from a hospice patient, my staffing coordinator was hospitalized Thursday night with appendicitis, and I had the thrill of chasing a snake. 

Gee I can't wait until next week.

Delores L. Galias, RN, RHIT

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