6 August 2010
Teh Float Pool!
So Today I accepted a position in the float pool of the hospital I work at.
The float pool is the best “unit” in the hospital for a variety of wonderful and magical reasons, in which, this, my first blog post, I will list, inappropriately using commas as much as possible.
1) No unit politics. Every workplace has this. As people work with each other for longer and longer periods of time, they develop strong feelings about each other and there seem to be invisible yet calcified rules of relation. . . and invariably people desire to express these feelings, colloquially known as “gossip” to fellow co-workers. Being in the float pool allows me some altitude over this situation, as I will never be deemed an “insider”. thusly, I go to the unit assigned to me that day, do my job, and leave. Voila. Nice and clean.
2) If a float pool person were to be assigned to a busy unit, or have an assignment that they dislike, the chances are good that they will not have the same assigment on the next shift, or even be on the same unit.
3) A float pool person never worries about what is going to happen tomorrow, because they are denied knowledge of tomorrow. A float pool person does not know where they are going to work until about twenty minutes before the shift starts. Thus one cannot worry about the huge amount of admissions the next day, or similiar things.
4) Float pool staff are the cavalry of the hospital. They ride in on white steeds and rescue the unit from chaos. (most of the time anyway 
) We are seen as heroes, as helpers, as saviours.
Man. I love it. I just love the varied day to day experience, the fact that I will get to know most everyone in the house. . . I could go on and on.
as the Heavy Weapons Guy would have it, GOOD TIMES!!!
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