Goodbye – a long time coming…

Since I have a little break I want to spend some time in reflection. I know it has been a while since I wrote, but it has been a long few months!  
Well, the day has come. My life for the past two years, at least work wise, has all been in preparation for today! Starting [...]

The countdown has begun!

And the count down begins…  So in the spare time I have between finalizing punch lists for the new facility and matching keys with locks and locks with doors, I have come up with the official countdown for the activation of the new hospital. Which will be the focus of my days for the next [...]

And I am back once again –

So it has been a while since I have talked with any of you. Life has seemingly taken the best of me. The NEW hospital is 120 days from taking patients, which means the remaining months are nuts. In the past month, in the midst of my absence from blogging, there has been no shortage [...]

All in a days work…

As the work week has kicked off, it is amazing to me how much stuff has to happen in the time period of 8 hours. Well technically it is more like 10 now a days…  Most of you know that I am a self diagnosed OCD sufferer. I plan everything, every meeting is on my [...]

A nap and a meeting…

Well, I know everyone has done this at least once… everyone has fallen asleep in some class throughout their life. And if they tell you that they haven’t, well, then they are perfect, and perfect people are no fun! J So I am still suffering from the heavy head syndrome, not enough sleep, being sick [...]

Terminology

Life in construction and the medical world revolves around terminology… I just spent a rather long 4 hours at the site learning all of the new terminology… I have included what I learned incase you ever need to know anything about hospitals and construction…  
Head Walls – The electrical and gas hook ups that are [...]

Busy Day!

How to determine if your day will be busy…   ICU is packed with all patients on ventilators.  Four critical ER transfers before 10am.   Two flight for life choppers before 11 am.  Reconfiguration Meeting for the elevators within the new facility at 12pm.  New Facility Construction Site tour and evaluation at 1pm. Security procedure and policy [...]

We have toilet paper!

Yes I know that most facilities do have toilet paper – however – I have spent the last 3 weeks negotiating with the contractors regarding the toilet paper and paper towels dispensers in the new hospital. You see, the placement/construction plans did not a lot for the 2 inch distance between the personnel using the [...]

Long Days and Even Longer Nights…

So tell me this… why is it that work is the only thing that seems uncomplicated at the moment. It is the place that I can be consumed with other things rather than my personal life, I am completely overwhelmed with deadlines, installation of new hospital equipment and the little details such as artwork with [...]