Some Differences Between Our Hospital and Yours…

You have electronic medical records, and documentation is done on the computers.

We have patient charts and they are paper, and handwritten!

Your patients have private rooms with a toilet or commode in each room.

Our patients have to use the outhouse…and it’s not much more than a hole in the ground.

The hospital you work at is probably one big building, or maybe a few large buildings attached to each other.

Our hospital is made up of many small buildings that you have to walk between.

You have a designated med room for all the medicine. 

Our patients medicine is in the room with the patients (in a locked drawer, however)

You have multiple choices of food at your cafeteria.

We get only item of food for lunch.

Your patients don't give each other advice on what they should be doing.

Our patients advise and correct each other on a daily basis.

If you need to get the OR team together for an emergency surgery, you call them on the phone.

We have to send someone to pick them up at their houses…because the phone isn’t working.

Your patients’ beds have sheets on them.

Ours don’t.

Your OB delivery area has several beds. 

Ours has two.

If it’s raining, you can get from the OR to post-op without going outside.

We get soaked just traveling between the bathroom and the Med-Surg wards.

SO BE THANKFUL, have fun, and COME HELP us if you get the chance. :) 

For more info visit www.congohospital.org