A mandatory class is coming up where one of the things we have to be familiarized with, is called "Fall Risk Management". It stands to reason that this is appropriate, because summer will be over soon, and we better be ready for the risk of Fall.

Fall Risk Management

I'm glad to see that my superiors
Are finally on the ball,
It's the middle of the summer
And the coming of the Fall,
And although it's risky business
It still happens every year,
Fall shall follow summer
'Tis really nothing there to fear.

But in business, there is caution
And in Healthcare, even moreso,
Risky yearly seasons
Cause a tremor of the torso,
You might call it intuition
Gut-feelings, sense of danger,
Perhaps a childhood experience
With a dark and sinister stranger,
Led to feelings of inadequacy
Every summer of each year,
Prompting Fall Risk Management
To mediate the fear.

Fibril_late;
7/27/08

We're also supposed to learn about the "Patient Classification System". Now if that isn't some classic office-speak, then I don't know what is. Hello!!, what in the heck is wrong with our current system. Well anyways, I think I figured it out:

Patient Classification System

Patient Classification System
Or P. C. S.,
Is another veiled attempt
To clean up the mess,
Left by a predecessor
Whom I'd rather not mention,
Uncontrolled gossip
Is bound to bring attention.

Patient Classification System
Or Pat-Class-Sys,
Is bound to be successful
No more hit and miss,
With objectives left floundering
Like a fish out of water,
All of our problems will disappear
Like lambs led to slaughter.

Fibril-late;
7/28/08

And last but not least, apparently there is "new" information about sepsis and stroke. I have made a recommendation to see that we also address the inclusion of humor, and the recognition of emotion, in regards to the needs of bedside caregivers.

A Balance of Emotion

Early recognition of sepsis

Early recognition of stroke,

Early recognition of the necessity

To accommodate room for a joke.

No matter how stressful the moment

When chaos and calamity prevail,

Medical decisions that change by the second

Must allow for the chance they might fail,

And where the long-term survival of caregivers

May be overlooked in the sea of commotion,

We must allow room for laughing and crying

As our lives hang in a balance of emotion.

Fibril_late;

7/28/08