I worked in admitting at Mountainview Hospital as a temp job. My job was to tell people to wait for the next representative for regular suregery admitting procedures as well as aid people with their check in at the walk-in ER. To check into the ER, people had to fill out a small form with their name and what was wrong. I would aid them if necessary. Then enter the information into a computer, print out a couple of "official" sheets and a wrist band. I would put the wrist band on the patient. I was told to alert the nurse if there were any serious conditions like chest pain. One time, a guy came in and was having violent seizures. The person with them was in a panic and very upset. I went in to tell the admitting nurse and she got mad at me for bothering her. Then it seemed like she took extra long to get to the patient. The whole place was really unprofessional and the systems that they had in place were very inefficient. Of course, they asked me to become full time and I said "goodbye suckers".
It seemed like their were theme days in the ER. For example, one day we would get a lot of head wounds. Another day, we would get whiny people with the flu. There was open wound day and my personal favorite, missing digit day.
