Day 8

This morning I got up ready for my first day of volunteering at Piedmont. Once I got there I went and got my TB test read... It was negative. Then I walked up to the admission area and helped them out assembling different packets. On Monday when I started Mr. Brown told me that this week was volunteer appreciation week and Wednesday they had a little party planned in the cafeteria. I was pretty excited that I chose to come on this week (haha). Well I headed over there grabbed a snack and then listen to the coral performance by the Peach Pipes. I got to the cafeteria a little bit early so as I was sitting there waiting for the party a voice came over the loud speaker. It said, "this is a code silver. A white man 5'8" wearing khaki pants a black shirt and a yellow vest about 170 pounds" or something like that.  I immediately looked down at my badge to see what a code silver was, I quickly discovered that a code silver was an active shooter in the building. I freaked out a little bit then the voice came back over the intercom and announced it was just a drill. That was great to hear. Shortly after this the Peach Pipes arrived and began their performance. I was pleasantly surprised by it. They sang some good songs, a bunch of classics. Then Mr. Brown and I met briefly and discussed the up coming week. After that he sent me up to the cardiovascular unit where I sent the rest of my day. It was a long day I sat at the desk where someone monitored the patient heart beats and the other nurse, Shanty, discharged and admitted patients. She also sat next to two screen one that allowed her to answer the calls from the patient room and one that allowed her to answers calls from other side the hospital. I helped out by answer the phone when they weren't around, discharging people's binders, making people admit binders, and cleaning medical supplies that came out of patients rooms. It was pretty interesting I had fun sitting at the nurses table with all the action going on around me. I liked the environment and the pace of everything around me plus everyone seemed pretty happy doing their job no one was obviously very miserable.