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it wasn't the case last night

LETMETELLYOUASTORYOFLASTNIGHTSSTORY

the day is 5/19/21

so i was in hospital at 3:00pm, ontime for duty

my co-workers leave at 7:00pm, so we had a meeting with medical director at around 5:00 pm, which lasted upto around 7:00pm, 

i had 4 platelets on our rotator (because platelets need constant movement to avoid early expiry/faulty platelets), which was suppose to expire at 5/20/21

the platelet had not been crossmatched yet for the patient, i planned on doing it ASAP after all ER patients were done for

so what happened was

ER kept recieving patients at 7:00pm (everyone already left, and i will be the only RMT in charge at night duty)

and, man, from 7:00pm to 10:00pm, PATIENTS KEPT FLODDING ME AND I COULDNT GIVE TIME TO CROSSMATCHING THE PLATELETS

and the panik i had was huge, couse if platelets expire, well, 

its not really easy to get platelets, so clearly i would get an IR for that, if it ever happened

so yea, lowkey, i PANIK but also CALM couse i need to be open minded when doing crossmatching, couse patient can really die if i f*ck up on crossmatching

and yea, nurse ended up helping me out by doing some CBG/RBS on patients that was suppose to be thrown onto me, and the radiologist next to our laboratory ended up helping me on recieption work, as patients kept pestering me for "results" or "swab" or "extraction" or "urine reading"

was really toxic

oh and, a senior of mine who lives near the laboratory came and visited, and double checked my crossmatch, along with what i did, and helped me on printing the results, since im not used to printing crossmatch results yet, so it would have taken me a bit to copy-paste format of crossmatching

and yea, finished everything at 12MN

after 12midnight, where it was benign, i still had work to do

my co-workers left everything to me, didn't log and or restock supplies

so yea, pretty much from 12 midnight to 4:50pm, i was doing logging work of results, restocking supplies, and et al, 

managed to sleep for 30minutes, before i went and extracted blood samples for morning pick patients (i had CBG/Sodium request at 6AM, toke them at 5:30AM to remove them from my workload/endorsement)

and yea, all in all, it was a really fun, albeit, toxic night >.>