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25 November 2010

And the total has been reached!

To recap,

Taking the number of days in a year and deducting 42 days for holidays.
Divide the 323 by 9 which is the roster cycle, four on & five off giving you 35.88.
Multiply roster cycles by four comes to 143.55 or say 144 shifts per year.

The following is the 144th shift.

89M - Discharge to nursing home.
91F - Transport to hospital for a fracture review.
18M - Recently diagnosed with an inflamed appendix, given oral ABs and told to come back if pain didn't decrease or increased. It got worse.
29F - Gastro, for three days now.
39M - Same gastro.
62M - From Medical Centre after presenting three days after being dumped in the surf. Dr thought he may have a carotid aneurysm?
17F - At school, near faint. Mum was coming to collect her. That sounds good.
3M - Fall in playground onto the the tightly regulated absorbent material under the play equipment. Over protective parent maybe because the kid just wanted to get back to the playground. They went home for ice cream.
20M - Has a mental health Hx and wigged out on the public transport. we transported him to a controlled environment to calm down.
66F - Mechanical fall and resulting face lac that was going to need stitches.
91F - N/h staff called for SOB. Pt was chucking an anxiety attack and playing it to the max. We did transport but when I talked to the family they told me she's been doing it more and more frequently.

And so that was it for my theoretical year of work,

1104 pt's seen in 144 shift for an average of 7.67 pt's per shift.


See you at the big One.

Taz

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi. I'm enjoying the read. Of those 1104 patients in 144 shifts, how many were transports to hospital, how many were non-urgent transports somewhere else (drop patient off at nursing home, etc.) and how many did you turn up and not need to transport the patient?