Didn’t I say things are rapidly changing? Yesterday was my first day working from home. As a clinical pharmacist, I’d never imagined having the ability to work from home, but as the COVID situation has evolved, so has the way I do my job. I was able to login remotely, work up patients, call in to rounds, precept my resident, verify chemotherapy orders, and follow up on clinical issues with the rest of my team. In the afternoon I had some issues accessing my drives, but after about 45 minutes on the phone with the IT department we were up and running.
Working from the couch, with dogs begging for attention all day was a bit of an adjustment, but having Shawn and Liesel around for lunchtime and a couple quick sanity breaks made it all worth while. I do miss my dual monitors and it’s only been one day, but I’ll get by without that luxury if it means keeping my family and coworkers safe. I wish it could be every day, but I will be alternating weekly to keep one person from each disease group on site during business hours. It may not be exactly what we had hoped for, but it is a huge step forward in protecting our workforce to hopefully stagger those out sick instead of risking everyone getting sick at once.
In other news, completely unrelated to COVID, Liesel sprouted her first tooth yesterday! Our little monkey is growing so fast!