Monday, November 01, 2010

VA Nurses and a HAUNTED FOREST!!!!

I'm soooo scared.  .into the haunted forest!
Last week’s travels took me to DC to see my family AND perform comedy for the nurses who work in Veterans Administration hospitals. What a dedicated group of people AND nice . . .of course as I pointed out, “of course you’re nice. All of your patients know how to shoot guns!” Okay, what they agree on is that the most dangerous thing about nursing is actually. . . .the hospital food (drum tap please!).

In preparation for the event, I read the book “Best Care Anywhere” - check it out - it’s an easy read and very, very surprising at how far in the forefront the VA hospitals really are! They’re the first ones to do bar coding on the patients’ wristbands to track meds. Yeah, bar codes - the first people to treat patients like they’re a sack of groceries!

VA hospitals ALSO already have an electronic records system. While “regular” hospitals are struggling with this, the VA’s have done it! This dinner was for the foundation and the other thing to support the foundation was to run the Marine Corps Marathon. . .good choice on eating and drinking as opposed to running 26 miles. Of course to a nurse, 26 miles is nothing. . . They walk that in a day!

ALSO, I went to the funnest Haunted Forest on the planet. . . Rated as one of the top 10 in the nation. . .www.MarkoffsHauntedForest.com . . .it’s 30 minutes of being scared toooooo death! MarkOffs Haunted Forest. . . They have a holding pen in which you can do all sorts of games and fun, scary stuff, and they have 2 trails into the forest. Our trail had a “planet of the apes” room, a crashed airplane, and of course, no haunting would be complete without being chased by a maniac with a chainsaw. More video will be up soon, but here’s us getting in the haunting mood!

The rest of the weekend was quiet. . .especially since the Redskins LOST! But so did the Cowboys, so it’s still a happy day!

Jan

www.ComedyWriterBlog.com

See us prepare to go to the haunted forest!



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