Viola goes to work.

I thought that maybe Viola needed some extra money to help pay for her trip to Texas.  So I brought her into work today.  I work at a local hospital in Sterile Processing.  That's the department where the instruments that get used in the operating rooms come back to be reprocessed.  For obvious reasons, I didn't take Viola into decontam where the instruments are cleaned because everything is really dirty.

Once the instruments are put through the washers, they are re-assembled in trays. Like this one.......

Poor Viola thought I was going to use it on her until I told her that she was too small for it.  I told her that the tray she was in is called the Stereotatic Arc Tray and that it was used for a neurology case.

Of course, I don't know everything about the trays I have to assemble and have to rely on information on the computer.  Most times the write ups are correct but every now and then one of them is wrong.  I showed Viola the program we use to do up trays.

 Then the trays go into a sterilizer.  Which pretty much "cooks" the instruments. Then they sit to cool  for a couple hours.

 Once they're cooled they get put away on shelfs until needed for surgery again.

That's a day in SPD.  Viola doesn't think it's a job for her, too much heavy lifting.