 Today I had a question that was posed to me specifically about like where am I on my 24 hour shift essentially so like what am I doing am I in the doctor's lounge am I in my own office space um so that is what this video is going to be about what's up you guys alright so we are back um the video question was posed to me um by Chan uh I don't know how to pronounce the last name but I'm gonna have the question up for you to read with me okay so it's this question do you have your own office at work in the hospital can you hang out in the doctor's lounge so kind of like a two-part question or two questions in one um but uh yeah so no I don't have like my well I wouldn't really call it my office um I guess it is kind of our office because we do have like a desk in that area um but no we do have our own space and it's not like my own space because I share it with like the other colleagues that work with me because on my 24 hour shift there are typically three PAs that are doing trauma and acute care surgery so we're covering trauma general surgery and vascular surgery in a 24 hour shift so because there's three of us there are three different call rooms that we will be in each call room is different there's a call room that I'm typically in um because that's the call room that I was in when I started as a general surgery PA um slash cross-training in trauma but yeah so I do have like my own officey space in terms of I have a desk and a computer there and so like paper and stuff that you would have in an office space but beyond that we have a place for us to sleep and eat and a place where our lockers are where we put all of our items because we are in the hospital for 24 hours all right so this is the bathroom so here we have the bathroom really simple um this little thing right here uh is actually um like a shower so I believe like you can like turn like these knobs right here over here and put the shower on uh don't do that though because I think it's kind of gross to like just shower in here so there is a shower that we do have outside of the room um across the hall that you can use um so we have that um this right here is actually our little like closet that we keep all of our supplies because we do have like a lot of like emergent things that we may have to do like and get called for in the night so we have like you know different types of catheter trays so like different lines right and catheter trays I don't know if you can see this but catheters and these are you know like all of our various different things that we have here um gowns and such right uh just some more things here that we'll use from time to time I have some tape obviously like we need tape for various different stuff and then this is like all of our lidocaine because we use like lidocaine for all of our various different procedures like chest tubes and central lines and things like that that we may be putting in so we do have that um but yeah this is our our little closet that of goodies I guess you can call it so that is that this is the actual room my computer where I'm actually like going to get some work done shortly for all of our things um and then this bed actually this is where like when the residents would stay like kind of with us they would sleep here um at night and we're like on the bed uh I've never been in that position but this was like before our whole merger of teams to become like an acute care surgery team when it was just general surgery they would sleep there and we would sleep on the bed over there this is a bed we have like two computers we usually have three computers in the room um but have two computers a little fan because sometimes it gets hot in here um here's the microwave so there's always like like little you know things that we have in here so sugar and some flies and there's always a secret stach of candy down here so fridge and you guys saw that's my meal prep that I showed you all this morning um my water is frozen up there in here this is mine so put that over there and then you know you gotta have like a curig everybody has a curig so we have like coffee here for those coffee drinkers I know there are lots of you that need coffee I don't drink coffee so I have my tea apart from that can we stay in the doctor's lounge yes we can we can go down in the doctor's lounge the doctor's lounge is downstairs in our particular hospital close to the operating room it's there because and it's close to the cafeteria as well because you know our physicians are coming in and then you know maybe they go and eat and then they do their dictations or they just did surgery and they come in and they do their dictations there as well um can I stay there yeah it's like open it's open to us as PAs and the residents as well and then you're just general physicians and the NPs however I mean why would I I don't want to I mean and the doctor's lounge like it's just like the coffee machine and you know like water and drinks and stuff and then a bunch of computers it's not like your own like comfortable space where you can just kind of be sitting down like I can sit down on my bed if I want I can sit down on the couch in my call room if I want I can lay out wherever and just be in my own space and have my own time to myself so typically when I'm doing like my call I'm upstairs in my call room if I'm not like running around on the floor trying to check on patients or you know doing a consult or you know running a trauma so that is essentially like what I'm doing so that's where we're at on our 24-hour shift and yes I can be in the the doctor's lounge but I don't want to so thank you so much for that question um great question please continue to leave your questions and comments in the comment section below subscribe like this video and follow me on instagram and down the pa thank you guys I will talk to you guys next time bye I don't know I didn't like that one