ER Volunteer “Floater”
Okay, so it’s another Monday morning and since I don’t have an Acting job right now (or any job, sadly) I just called Charlayne and told her I’d be okay with “volunteering” to be a “Floater.” A Floater is someone who gets called in when a regular Volunteer has something going on in his/her life and since I don’t have much going on —
I’ll Float For Now —
When I can–
Till things pick up —
Which’ll hopefully be soon.
I’m already having second thoughts though–
Apparently now I have to go to the Annual Volunteer Meeting. Noooo! Next Saturday morning! (Good Times, right?)
ALL the Volunteers on ALL the ER shifts get forced to go and apparently some people use it as a suck-up session (like those kids in school who drove us all nuts) or a venting session, so it can go on and on (ugh!)
Supposedly at the meeting Charlayne will tell us all the new rules. What for? Hospital rules always change, so why give up several hours on a weekend to find out the latest rules that’ll probably change before the next weekend? Don’t get me started on rules for Volunteers. I mean, they want us to help people, but they keep coming up with rules that make it impossible to help people.
But fine – I’ll try to be open and non-judgmental (ha!) until I, at least experience one of these meetings myself. Maybe there’ll be some cute boys there, although I seriously doubt it.
Volunteers tend to be pretty much limited to:
- Med students, who need the hours,
- Nursing students, who need the hours.
- Empty-nesters whose kids have left for college.
- Oldies (with brains and bodies that still work) looking for purpose.
Don’t get me wrong, there are rewards to volunteering in the hospital like SUPER CUTE DOCTORS (one in particular) and FRIENDS like Mira and Tyrell who make even the most stressful shifts tolerable and GRATEFUL PATIENTS who tell me I’m an “Angel” (LUV when that happens). I mean, I wouldn’t sign up to be a Floater if there wasn’t some feeling of satisfaction.
Still, I wish I could skip the meeting…
(What do you wish you could skip this week? Share in the comments.)
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I remember those days. I worked in a hospital years ago….meetings are borrrring. But hey it’s better than nothing right:) enjoy the week babe!
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Exactly! I’m gonna take notes and write a post. “Patient Confidentiality” doesn’t apply here. Ahaha!
Work, only if I can go on an amazing vacation instead.
An amazing vacation would be amazing right now…