When I redid the pharmacy map where I worked, I had to colour code everything so it was easy to see where things were. In my rebellious band 4 youth (one up from slave status
) I coded the suppository and enema section brown and had a 'Code Brown' section for all such meds.
It was great because my line manager had the humour capability of burnt Weetabix and never questioned it...but all the trainee techs and still human staff saw it instantly and had a good chuckle
I remember similar fun being had in our new stores at the general when things got moved around. It was done over a weekend before we went to weekend working (as we spoke about before!) so it was double time, which was better than a kick in the crotch for a prereg who were almost slaves too!
It was decided that the a-z orals would be alphabetical by the first three letters of the generic, which led to so many opportunities....
The ends of each rolling shelf unit had a big three letter sign on it after things got moved by us, as we weren't making the signs, that was our darling innocent secretary at the time doing that and laminating them...
So we made the list of the signs needed, and Janet bless her silly old heart laminated the signs to go up, innocent to the idea that nonpermanent marker pen could be added to complete the prefix words for other slightly ruder ones....
The normal one to get "added to" (and iirc the only one I can really write here) was MIN where we had set the minocycline to go across two ends. It was beautiful engineering it has to be said.
Anyway, when our chief came in on Monday and had a look, he noticed that two signs said MIN-J and MIN-ge but with the grace that David had, he blissfully ignored it pretending he hadn't seen!
I can honestly say that none of us who had set up the new racks had done it, but rest assured there were many times that we did, even myself as a C grade!
I wish I could say some of the others too, but put clindamycin into the allegory of its three letter prefix, and you begin to get the idea...!
I think we would have had a LOT of fun working together in the hospital environment mate, I honestly do - and I don't mean it to sound like a bromance is building!
