Patient Progress

I love seeing how patients progress, whether it's medically or mentally. It's the main reasons why I love E4. The A.T. keeps me in tune with what's going on with the patients. In the morning, I charted the patient activities while listening to the A.T. read the newspaper to the patients. It was sort of like current events since she made them share comments. In the afternoon, we had a community meeting, meaning the patients got to get together and share what could be improved on the ward. I scribbled down notes for the charge nurse, since she had another meeting to attend. The ones that had complaints had a lot to complain about, but most of them thought the service was fine. I stayed after the meeting to review my notes with the A.T. She then let me write down how each patient was doing while she dictated. All day she insisted that I come back tomorrow so the ward could give me a treat. I kept telling her that she didn't since I'll come back to her unit once summer school is over. If she wasn't off on vacation the past two weeks I bet she would have planned something big for today. She's the type of person to do that to get the residents willing to interact and participate. Before I left, she gave me a souvenir from her trip.

During my two and half hour break, I went over to Mollie Stone's to visit Theresa. Unfortunately, her lunch break wasn't until 3, but she took a 15 minute walk with me when I came. Her line wasn't as busy like the last time I came. I think I'm going to go to LLH a little earlier tomorrow so I can drop by again. Ughh, I should have checked in at Moran Hall to see if there's going to be art tomorrow. Oh well, I can spend more time on E4 if there isn't.