When sending a greeting card to a hospital patient ..I put the patient's home address in the return box. If they go home or transfer to a different facility before the card gets to them, it will get sent to their home rather than back to you.
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When you send a get well card to a hospital, put the patient's home address in the return address place. Then if patient has gone home, it will be redirected to them.
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So, the last thing I wanted to do after work today was run to the gym. I spend most of my day being active caring for my patients at the hospital I googled how many calories I burn in spending roughly 2 hours per day actively involved with assisting patients: 272 calories per hour! This cannot be a daily excuse to hit the gym because moving patient's certainly does NOT elevate my heart rate like a trip to the gym, but it's nice to know I don't have to beat myself up if I don't make it either!