Hump day!!

Another long day of classes. Almost done with the last administrative week. Today we learned about The Joint Commission, our attitudes, diversity, Healthy Eating Tip of the Month, literature reviews, etc. LOTS of stuff. 

Turns out each month, an intern is in charge of the Healthy Eating Tip of the Month. It's not just a little tip that's thrown out in a department-wide email every month, but instead a hospital-wide initiative that includes displays, bulletin boards, handouts, and creating a website. Yea. No big deal! So, of course, whose name is first alphabetically in the intern list? MINE! That means that I get one month from today to create all of this. While other interns get 3, 4, heck! 8 months to finish theirs. Is this unfair? Mm...debatable. But - will I get it done early and not have to worry about it and have it come at more inconvenient times? Probably. I'm going to be the optimistic pessimist for today.

But I really can't complain. I'm here. I'm getting it done. I'm going to be an RD soon. And, today we got to put our sweet acting skills to use by role playing tough situations for communication. 

Today was loads better than yesterday. Yesterday we slowly trudged through the intensely slow afternoon of learning about how the hospital disposes of medical waste. Get this - U of M hospital has a state-of-the-art autoclave which is attached to a grinder. All medical waste (sharps, rubber gloves, etc.) goes down into the grinder and gets grinded until it's unrecognizable. Then, it goes up a conveyor until it's put into this MASSSSIVE autoclave that seals and heats everything inside with 280 degrees of steam. This kills all the germs on it so it would be safe to go to a landfill. Then, it goes down a chute into the everyday garbage. Cool, but completely unnecessary for us to know. Not to mention the guy had a super monotone voice and didn't move around the classroom at all. The tour of the autoclave area was neat, but...

a) smelled beyond disgusting, a possible mix of a sewage plant, wet dog, and rotting eggs

b) we had the tour directly before lunch

c) the guy overstayed his tour time by 10 minutes, cutting into recovery/lunch mode

So. Needless to say, good information, just didn't need to be 2 hours worth. 

But then today the entire hospital staff (including us!) was invited to an ice cream social outside in the courtyard where personally treated myself to some vanilla frozen yogurt with strawberries and Oreo crumbles. Yay hump day.

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