WHAT Time Is It?

The band on my nurse Minnie Mouse watch broke at work, so I stuck it in my pocket. There are three clocks on the walls, so I just relied upon them for the time.

What I didn't know is that there had been a power failure earlier in the day and the generator and back-up generator both failed. Two of the wall clocks stopped working when the power failed. The third clock ran on batteries. The battery clock with the correct time was facing another direction, so I was relying upon the clocks that were 40 minutes slow.

It wasn't until after 10 pm that I saw the correct clock and panicked. I hadn't even started passing out the 10 o'clock meds and usually, I'm just about done by then. That may not sound like much, but all of my patients got their medications late and I had to frantically rush around to just barely finish on time. For someone who practically lives and dies by the clock, it was most unpleasant.

This is the third time I know of that both of the generators failed. There is a third generator that supplies power to only the critical sections of the hospital, such as OR and ICU. If the third and last generator had failed, you would have heard about it in the news.