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COUNT · Sep 2 — South Wing stores, week opening
SOUTH WING — STORES, WEEK OPENING
Beds made up: 24
Beds occupied: 19
Beds occupied same week last year: 11
Linen: adequate
Dressings: adequate
Feeding stores: adequate
Nurse’s note at the foot, in a different pen: ask about the five.
LOG · Sep 2 — Pharmacy, shelving
PHARMACY — SHELVING
48 units moved to ward store, south wing, second cupboard, as usual.
Cart wheel gone again. Reported again.
Left the ward store key with the night nurse because there was nobody else on the desk at that hour, which is not procedure and I have written it down so that it is not a secret.
LOG · Sep 3 — Emergency department, night
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT — NIGHT
Six in.
Two lacerations. One wrist, splinted, referred. One chest pain that was not chest pain, sent home with a paper bag and a number to call.
Woman, 71, brought in by her son off the Kellerman road. Temp 102.9. No injury. No cough, no rash, no abdomen, nothing to find on her anywhere.
She asked me twice what my name was. The second time she asked me what hers was.
Son says she was fine on Sunday.
NOTE · Sep 3 — Admitting note
ADMITTING NOTE — DEEL, IRIS. F/71.
Presenting: fever, 102.9. Onset per family: 36 hours, possibly less.
Chest clear. Abdomen soft. No focal neurology. No rash. No bite, sting, wound or break in the skin anywhere I could find, and I looked twice because there was nothing else to look at.
Labs sent. Fluids up. Admitted South Wing for observation.
No cause identified. I do not like writing that and I have written it.
LETTER · Sep 4 — correspondence
Ken —
Took Mom down to Delmont last night. Don’t panic. She’s got a temperature and they’re keeping her in to be sure, which is what they say when they haven’t got the faintest.
I feel a bit silly about it now. She was talking rubbish in the car and I put my foot down and I think I frightened her more than the fever did.
They’ve put her in the south wing. Big windows. Better than the last time.
I’ll call you Thursday either way.
— Alan
COUNT · Sep 4 — Emergency department, admissions by presenting complaint
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT — ADMISSIONS BY PRESENTING COMPLAINT, 24 HOURS
Injury — 4
Chest — 3
Abdominal — 2
Obstetric — 1
Fever, no other findings — 6
Other — 2
Note appended by the charge nurse: the fever six are from five different addresses and none of them know each other. Flagging because it looks tidy and it isn’t.
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