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RP: A Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.

Jan 10, 2011 13:35

Date: 10 January
Characters: Peter Crawford, Adison Quinn, Jen (NPC)
Location: JPS hospital
Status: Private
Summary: Peter's got his hands full
Completion: Complete

( As if it weren't already bad enough... )

character: peter crawford, location: jps hospital, character: adison quinn, january 2011

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adison_quinn January 10 2011, 21:58:54 UTC

Adison bites her lip, concentrating hard. It's a tough draw; the vein is easily visible, but the patient is elderly so there's nothing anchoring it in place. If she can make this draw on the first try, maybe she can start proving herself to the older phlebs.

She's done this enough times that she can feel the needle slide home: inside the lumen of the vein, not transfixed. She pops the first tube on and grins as it begins to fill.

Her pager goes off. She manages not to jump this time and sighs in relief; last time she'd been paged during a draw, she'd jostled the needle in the patient's arm and... well, no one had been happy with her that day.

She finishes the draw as quickly as she can and pulls the pager out of her pocket on her way out of the room. There are eight STAT INRs to draw on the ortho floor? What the hell is going on ( ... )

peter_crawford January 10 2011, 22:10:54 UTC

"Just one tube," Peter reassured the young man with the pins. "Just double-checking your blood-thinners. We can't adjust your meds if there might be an error with the lab, so just to be on the safe side..." He pressed his gloved thumb to the spot where the needle came out, holding it for a good minute to make sure that it stopped bleeding. "You let me know if this starts bleeding again, okay ( ... )

adison_quinn January 10 2011, 22:27:11 UTC

"Despite the fact it's my department, I'd rather a lab screwup than a med disaster," Adison said, accepting the tubes and tucking them into an empty rack marked STAT/ASAP. "Thanks. Which two...?" She compared the names on the tubes to her reqs, tore away the two the nurse already drew, and accepted the additional order from him. "Type and cross, got it. I'll take care of them.

"And I'm Adison. I'll probably forget your name," she added, walking backward toward the first patients' room. "Easier for a couple hundred older employees to remember me than it is for me to remember a couple hundred of you." She smiled, gave a little half-wave half-salute, and turned to knock on the door. "Hi there, I'm from the lab, I'm here to take some blood. How are you today?"

peter_crawford January 11 2011, 01:08:28 UTC

Peter chuckled. How right it was. It'd taken him weeks to learn just the nurses on ortho. He turned to the stack of charts and picked up the first one, flipping to the orders section to write the telephone order from his notes. It didn't take long to document the orders, note them on the kardex, then find Jen and retrieve his keys ( ... )

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peter_crawford January 11 2011, 18:14:08 UTC

Peter returned her salute with a grin. "Yes ma'am. Have a good one..." Nice enough girl, he thought, turning and tucking the blood under his arm long enough to open the coke. Screw no drinks at the station today. If there was ever a day that warranted breaking rules, this was it.

He paused at the desk to page House, then grabbed the blood orders and Jen. They made quick work of the double check, signing off on the transfusion, and Peter hung the blood set and took Mrs. Ames's vitals. "I'll be back about a hundred times to do those again," he said, taping the sheet to record them onto her IV pole. "If you feel anything odd, you call me. Itching, foggy head, dizzy, anything at all." He pressed the call light into her hand before turning to go. No sense having a transfusion reaction piled onto the current disaster.

He reached the station to find Jen on the phone. House, she mouthed, handing him the receiver, and he took a breath before taking it. "Peter Crawford ( ... )