u/sweetdreamspootypie

Hiya

I need help working out what tool to use to track equipment at my work

I'm a nurse on a hospital ward - I've been put in charge of keeping an eye on our equipment and that it's all working.

The hospital at large has an engineering department who have their own tracking system but they only really track for the annual service dates of equipment and the work orders when someone puts in a ticket for something not working

But that means they are not going to do anything about the equipment shoved in a back corner with a post-it note on it saying "broken" because no nurses have time to submit a maintenance request.

There's stuff the hospital owns generally and there's stuff my ward owns as an independent thing that was bought for us only with our budget.

So I need a way of auditing "we are supposed to have 5 of xyz but how many can I actually find?" And "when was the last time I checked all the abc are working"

I made up a huge excell spreadsheet and tried to do an audit of things sighted, counted, and work orders submitted

But it was way too manual to do monthly, or even kinda at all.

I looked into Microsoft Access databases but I don't think I could realistically put together what I need

There must be tools out there for equipment tracking?

Is there a subreddit for people to suggest tools? Or find a computer person to build a database? I was thinking of maybe putting up a message for my local uni computing students suggesting it as a project

(ramble post)

I simply do not look at tattoos.

With my patients, I'm watching their breathing, how their veins are, bruising, wounds, pressure areas, cognition, mobility gait.

Tattoos are of zero interest to me when I am looking at someone as a patient.

It's usually not til like 3 days later after a patient discharges that I go "oh... That was probably a really big really obvious nazi tattoo on every limb if I had looked closer."

But like. What do I do with that information? Nothing? I'm a healthcare worker so that kind of "demographic" information should (and does) have no bearing on how they are treated as a patient.

And having tattoos doesn't necessarily track with being abusive to the staff - the majority of nursing staff are non white (though I'm white passing) and I've actually found (of my sample size of 3) that obvious Nazis are less overtly racist to the staff than many people. So there is no role for warning other staff members unless actual behavioural issues occur.

One of the people with obvious tattoos always started any interaction with jokes, I guess to put people at ease. Though with that particular person apparently the tattoos were not his choice, they were put on him in prison as an abuse tactic, so assuming that's true we discount him. But that information only came up because I guess someone asked him about the tattoos rather than ignoring them?

As I'm hospital based, my patient population is mostly 60+ years old. A 70 year old today would have been 20yo around 1970. So assuming they learned from 50+ year olds, or maybe their own parents, then they could plausibly have directly inherited from actual WW2 Nazis (though I don't think many came to my country).

Idk

There's just. Nothing to do with this information. My job is my job, and while someone is a patient, they are just human and nothing else. But it's just information I am re-confronted with every once in a while.

(Afterthought - the only time I've actually been confronted with intense casual antisemitism at work has been pleasantly confused Christian grannies conversationally rambling about bible stories)

When I search for "wellington activities", Google only wants to tell me about tourist stuff. I want to find stuff for a local having a fun night with friends

- there are a few indoor mini golf places

- escape rooms?

- there is an axe throwing place now?

- karaoke places

- there are some classing arcade game type places but I don't love those

- bowling

- is there still Lazer tag?

What else is there along these lines?