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Sitrep: 1/15-1/16 and beyond
So I had to grab my gear and run out the door just as we were starting the raid on Wednesday. This made me sad (and angry) so I might as well explain.
So some wet behind the ears nurse gets rattled by a sudden increase in patient load and tells the house supervisor to call a code triage. A code triage is for something like a meningitis breakout or maybe a fire that has engulfed half the town. Its basically an "OH $H!T!" button with set procedures to deal with large scale disasters and treating massive numbers of people. The operators recieves a code triage and then starts to call in all senior and management staff to deal with the incident as well as shutting off normal phone lines and shunting them through a call service to deal with the eventual tidal wave of calls from media and the community.
So there I am sitting in the personel pool for code triage...and nothing is happening. An hour later the senior management makes heads and tails of the situation (phone lockout isn't too helpful when the call goes out while they're on the way home and they can't figure things out till they arrive in person). A few shootings, suicide attempts, and car accidents is NOT a code triage. That's a normal day in America. Granted, with the county on full saturation (all ER and Inpatient beds in all hospitals are occupied) it made things dicey, but it was far from a code triage. I wager the nurse got kicked out of the hospital for her mistake so fast there was a sonic boom.
So since we clocked in for a call back that was a total false alarm we all had to stick around for 2 hours (3 hours total including the one hours to figure out what happened) to get paid. After that my shift on Graveyard was coming up anyways so I just stuck around and did my shift and went home the next morning.
Then I get a call to attend a manditory debriefing on the incident. I spend another 8 hours listening to endless repeats of "This is a code triage ("Picture of volcano errupting in the middle of the city") this isn't ("Patient beds lined up in the hallway while patients whine at nurses in the ED because they didn't get the magic medicine")" I get to write a nice incident report on what I did and what I thought could be improved then stuck around again to do my shift on graveyard. I was not happy.
I think I slept through Friday and some of Saturday.
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My sanity is not in question...
It was a confirmed casualty some time ago.
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