Oh how time flies...

Wow, I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since I've updated my blog. Boy how time flies when you're busy.

Work has been hectic as we are preparing to open a new section at one of our 5 hospitals. Working in the IT Department, we have the duty of deploying the new PC's printers prior to the areas going live. But we also have to move the existing equipment from the old areas, clean it up and re-deploy it. Moving the old equipment isn't as easy as just unplugging it and plugging it back up. Some of the departments want a few machines moved, then they'll move a few patients, then a few more machines, etc... A process that can take several hours just to move 5 machines. UGH...

Now, working in a hospital, one would think the areas around the nursing stations would be neat, clean, and sanitary.....yea, right. Pick up a PC, and you'll see a coffee spill that's months old. Or dust bunnies that could eat a '75 Cadillac Eldorado. Then look under the desk, at the mess of cables, staples, dust, tape, and other stuff. Ewwwwwwww. I've pulled out cables that looked like they had on fur coats. Surge protectors that had soda, coffee, and other unknown fluids spilled on the, and then left to collect all kinds of nastiness. Infection control would go ape-sh*t if they saw some of this mess. Not only do we have to collect these cables and remove them from the area, but most of the time, we have to clean them and reuse them where the equipment is moving.

Ok, now that you would probably never set foot into a hospital again, let me just say that it's not all that bad. I've worked in the hospital for 10 years now, and not caught anything serious.... *cough* *cough*, and I've got this growth that still hasn't been identified yet.... JUST KIDDING. Seriously, these are just small areas, where there is no way to get in there and clean it on a daily r weekly basis. If we allowed housekeeping to move the machines every few days to clean under and around them, we'd have broken equipment all over the place. Many times the house keepers can't get to these areas to clean because the nurse or doctor won't move their lazy butt 6 inches to the left or right for even a minute. And the really dirty machines are the ones on or near the floor where the fans suck up any little speck of dust and after time it just builds up. Heck look around your own PC, see any dust around it, inside it.... Yea, inside it. How many of you actually open your PC up and vacuum it out? And how many of you smoke near your PC? All of that build up, and you're only one person for a few hours a week or day. Now imagine a nurses station with 8-10 nurses (or more) per shift (3 shifts), 5-20 doctors per day, 5-50 patients, 2-4 visitors per patient, plus other hospital staff going through that area on a daily basis. It doesn't take long to build up a lot of dust.

I don't know what made me write this post, I just started typing and there it is.