“A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.” ~George S. Patton
This is going to be a roller coaster of a week. Lots of stuff to look forward to …
Tomorrow is the first day that the nurses supposedly will give Pearlsky her amino acid! They have not told me so, the Assistant Superintendent, who had a conversation with the Attorney General in charge of Civil Rights for the state, told me. I am sending it in, pre-mixed, in a jar that does have an official label on it, from a manufacturer who does not make it anymore. Most of me hopes they just start giving it to her. Part of me hopes they don’t, because she will be sooooo nailed.
The Nursing Complaint that I submitted to the Department of Public Health has been acknowledged and is in review. The timing is great, I think the head nurse will get wind of it just about in time to totally ruin her Thanksgiving holiday. Not my plan, nor my timing, but schadenfreude once again raises its ugly head. I should hear from the assigned investigator this week.
Pearlsky has a doctor’s appointment and will get a flu shot on Thursday. Sucky 18th birthday present for her, no?
I turn some really big number on Friday. Hopefully no one will notice due to her birthday overshadowing mine.
You may notice that I call the Coordinator of School Health Services “head nurse.” That is actually an old fashioned term, typically not used anymore, and replaced by the more contemporary “nurse manager.” I use it with a hint of disdain. One principle reason the term is out of fashion is a very well known adolescent joke …
What do you call a nurse with dirty knees?
A head nurse.
For those not familiar … at least in American Slang … “head” = fellatio … or so I am told. Hence, the title of a recent post …
oh…OOHHH….
What do you think the *real* reason is that she’s refused to give Pearlsky the amino acid? I mean, I know she told you it’s because it’s not in a sealed container, it’s not really medicine and also not really food, blah blah blah…but why do you think she’s really been putting up so much of a stink? Just being a bitch?
I actually knew that head nurse thing…I just was off my game. Bennett had flu Thu-Fri. I have it Sat-today. Sucks.
I have a theory on Nurse Ratched…it has nothing to do with anything to do except with the fact that she believes that SHE is the authority and when someone challenges that she takes it as an affront to her ego. Nothing more. It’s a shame because it is always the patient who suffers when you get a person with this type of psychological deficiency in a position of authority.
Just popping in to wish you both a very happy birthday.
Stick it to that nurse. I don’t have words for what I’ve endured at the hands of nurses: when they are good, they’re very very good… and when they are bad they’re neglectful, abusive, controlling bastards.
Rivka-
My assumption was that the nurse was like someone else we both know, who takes “the rules,” puts their own spin on it, sticks to that interpretation and insists everyone else does also, but refuses to ask a higher authority (in this case, for example, someone from the state nursing board or whatever) to find out how she REALLY is supposed to apply the rule.
If that’s true, then the nurse’s problem is an unfortunate combination of not wanting to break rules, not wanting to admit she doesn’t fully understand the rules, and taking some pleasure in forcing hardship to other people in order to make them follow the rules too.
On a more sinister note, maybe she doesn’t like Pearlsky. Or maybe (less sinister) she’s been in trouble before for breaking rules and is now hyper-sensitive to following the letter of the law.
Or maybe she’s just a bi-otch.