Y-so-Serious?

Went to 8 hours of "how to use a hospital computer charting" training. Tried to tell them I usually pick up computer charting in a matter of...well...minutes. The only thing that kept me sane was the fact that I was sitting next to a co-worker who had seen The Dark Knight with me Saturday night and we randomly quoted the movie in our medical "record".

So my patient, "Dodge Curveball", stated during his make-believe swallow evaluation, "why so serious?" when asked what his therapy goals were. Hehehehahahaheheehhe. Right before he pulled a knife on me. That would be a code "green" for all of you out there, or a code-whatever-the-hospital-calls-it. For some reason they didn't show us how to fill out incident reports today-- that would have been a good thing to play with while the respiratory therapists learned how to set vent norms and the Speech therapists were twiddling our electronic thumbs for 90 minutes.

There is a great hospital scene in The Dark Knight. I won't spoil it. But there is a moment when I think I was able to identify every healthcare worker in the theater-- we all snorted our drinks at the same time. That, and I was evaluating a certain injured character's ability to speak and swallow safely. Personally, I'm impressed with the function when acknowledging the amount of damage done to the oral-musculature. Enough. I don't want to spoil a good scene and/or reveal what level of nerd I am.

That's all gobbly-gook unless you've seen it-- and possibly still gobbly-gook if you are not an SLP.

That being said, sitting through a class on computer charting is lame. The Dark Knight- so not lame. It was a fun, fast paced movie that is certainly one of the better I've seen. Even if I watched part of it through my fingers. See Lately'sreview for a more intense description.

4 more hours of computer class tomorrow, followed by 3 days of "training exercises" and then the hospital goes live and all the paper charting I've just now gotten a hang of will change over to computer. Luckily, I type faster than I write.

Go see Batman. And don't be so serious.