Week 2 Journal

Monday (5/17/2021): 7: 33 am -4:00pm; 8 hours

Worked on computer until 8:30 then went down to Environmental Services where, David,

one of the EVS supervisors took me to third floor medical to shadow with Mrs. Jacqueline from

8:40-12:00. She did mostly active patient room cleaning, where she went in and only did touch

up cleaning for them. We had one full discharge clean that I was able to observe. At noon we

stopped for lunch for 30 minutes. I went back to my desk and ate lunch while I began to write

down all my observations that must be addressed by infection prevention and EVS along with

the hospital as a whole. At 12:35 I met back up with Mrs. Jackie and continued observing her

until around 3:30. I stopped by Maggie and Krystle’s office to report back to her about my day,

and then went back up to my office around 4 and left for the day. 8hrs 27mins

Tuesday (5/18/2021): 7: 37am - 4:00pm; 8 hours

Today I was in Outpatient with Lanora. I met with David around 7:45 and he took me up

to Outpatient care where we had 28 surgeries scheduled for today. I followed her and another

nice lady from EVS, who agreed to help with the high volume of patients, from 8am-12pm. At

noon I had to go get a TB blood work-up done and that took a while due to the high volume of

surgeries they had today. After my blood work I went down to Krystle’s office where I got PPE

certified and then helped with setting up and re-training donning and doffing with covid contact

employees from 1pm-2:30pm and then helped her clean up. I went back up to my office where

Maria asked Elizabeth and I to help set up classroom A for an HR class/training exercise

happening tomorrow until 4 and then we went home. 8hrs 23mins

Wednesday (5/19/2021): 7: 30 am -4:00pm; 8 hours

 Today I was up on Labor and Delivery and NICU from 8am until 1:20pm with Kim. I

watched her clean staff facilities then watched her clean the C-Section OR after a procedure,

which was very interesting to watch. Kim and I worked past the lunch hour due to the couple of

discharges from LND so we only had a 20 minute lunch break from 1:25-1:45. I then went back

to Labor and Delivery and Mother Baby where I worked from 2:00pm to 4:00pm and then

headed home. 8hrs 30mins

Thursday (5/20/2021): 7: 21 am -4:00pm; 8 hours

I got in at 7:21 this morning and dropped my stuff off like I always do then headed down

to EVS to meet David. I observed as David and two other men on the EVS team terminal cleaned

the new ORs from 8:00am-9:30am. David then took me to the Emergency Department where I

observed Irma from 9:30am to 12:00. I had a working lunch meeting with Elizabeth and Maria

from 12:15pm to 1:00pm. I then headed to my office where I worked on the computer writing

my findings and things that need to be addressed in my project from 1:00pm to 4pm. I then

headed home. 8hrs 39mins

Friday (5/21/2021): 7: 20 am - 3:00pm 7 hours

I came in and sat at my desk and checked my email until 7:45 then headed down to

Classroom A for the EJCH Care Transformation & Culture Retreat. In this retreat we were

shown the patient surveys and the data out of those surveys. We were then given reasons why

rankings might be what they are and the correlations between the different reasons. We received

our ADIETH certification so that we could better interact with patients allowing for better

scores. The meeting went from 7:45am until 3:00pm. Maria let us go an hour early due to it

being Friday and having been sitting for the last 7 hours. I will regain this hour at a later date

during my internship. 7hrs 40mins

What I gained from This Week:

Being able to shadow the different floors and see the actual process of the EVS staff

helped tremendously in identifying the issues within their system. I got a lot of good data that

needs to be addressed and concluded the key issue that EJCH is having when it comes to

cleaning protocols and their EVS staff. I am looking forward to helping them grow forward and

develop a concrete system.

Total hours for the week: 39

Total hours thus far: 79