Amber took a deep breath and thought longingly of the sandwich and apple sitting safely in the staff refrigerator waiting for her to have a chance to take a break and eat them but that wasn’t going to be any time soon. Today has been hopping and it didn’t look like it was going to slow down any time soon. She finished getting one patient back into bed just in time to help them move in and set up a transfer from the hospital.
She’d seen the chart for just a second before she’d gone to help Mrs. Fuentes back into bed. The new guy, and it was a guy, was an MVA with a tib/fib fracture and several pins in the fibula, slowing healing and requiring more care than the average person could handle at home. At the same time, he didn’t need enough care to warrant taking up a bed in the hospital any l
