during the month of june all of the hospital employees must complete our 'net learning'. On-line power point presentations about compliance, code pinks, & stroke team activation, each with a quiz at the end. the carrot they dangle in front of us is 'no christmas bonus if you don't complete all the modules!'
residents have a special module called SAFER which stands for something about sleep.... blah ..blah... residency.
in addition to recomending the impractical if not impossible (ie-you should never drive yourself home post call!) the SAFER module teaches that a person needs 8 hrs sleep per night, and when he does not get those 8 hours he incurs a 'sleep dept' that must be paid back!
well my debtor has come for payback for all of my intern year. My second year started on July first, and for my first month I work 8-5, M-F, no call. You'd think I'd be loving life and partying and using all that extra time for fun stuff. I feel just as, if not more exhausted now than I did all year! So apparently the time has come to begin paying back my sleep debt. I really have no idea how much I owe, but I've been getting about 9-10 hrs / night, so I've started to slowly may a dent in the surely massive sleep dept of internship.
off to bed with me!
