It's just stupid sometimes.

Some days I just do not understand the incompetence I must work with, and at a hospital where some situations are life and death. One situation that is quite critical is the Lifeflight, which is the helicopter flights that our hospital does. The area I work in fills the flight bags with the needed supplies. We have adult/pediatric and nursery bags.

Right now they are transitioning to new nursery bags, which means supplies are in new places and there are some added and deleted supplies. Currently, the flight time is not authorized to use the new bags and must use the old ones until Monday. They replaced two of the old bags already, which left us with one old bag and two news ones. A flight went out and came back with the old bag. Now, when a bag comes back to our area we go through the whole bag with a checklist of supplies to see what was used and then replace them.

A nursery bag was brought down to our area. We were not informed that the flight team was down to using one bag and since we are short staffed on the weekends, it was set aside for later. The flight team then calls down saying that they are going out on another run and need the nursery bag and wanted to know if it was finished. No, we said it isn't but can you use a new one. No, they couldn't. So, we frantically scrambled to find out what had been used on the last flight from the bag, tried to reorganize the bag, and rushed it out to the waiting helicopter.

This never should have happened. We should have been told there was only one bag. But mostly, there never should have only been one bag. While transitioning to the new bag, they could have left the supplies in the old one, completed the new bags, and then when the flight team started using the new bags remove the old ones. I do not understand what kind of "logic" was used to transition the bags. Bleh.

In other news, I like a boy. :) He's cute and he likes board games. Nothing gets better.