After a long day at school, Harold and I went to K & C's ten year anniversary drinkfest at Shanghai 1930. Lyle Snow was there, amazingly enough... We talked about Larry McMurtry and Million Dollar Baby and how we normally don't like boxing movies or Clint Eastwood. I miss seeing Lyle every day! I took some pictures of Lyle, but since he despises pictures so much, it would probably make him mad if I posted them. I had a delicious martini and then Harold and I went to Butterfly's new location at Pier 33 on Embarcadero. We were planning on going to Finding Neverland afterwards, but then I had a lychee martini at Butterfly and that was the end of that.
Fridays, our classes are at Laguna Honda Hospital in their cavernous auditorium. We could barely hear our miked professors and patients rolled in and out in their wheelchairs. We'll see how this goes... I think my critical care class is going to be fun. All the exams are take home or open book and she's regaling us wih anecdotes to illustrate her points... for example, we're studying legal issues in nursing, and to illustrate abandonment, she told us about a nurse at a hospital that had three nurses on duty for the floor during the night shift. Someone coded, and two nurses went to help with the coding patient, leaving the one nurse to oversee the whole floor. The one nurse thought that it was a convenient time to go eat dinner and left. Needless to say, the nurse was fired and is now facing all sorts of charges. Yikes. Sometimes it just takes some common sense...
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