May 2 - May 8 Hottest Topics
Even though I graduated from nursing school in 1975, I still remember every one of my nursing instructors. I can't say I remember every last bit of information they tried to teach, but I do remember something about each one of them. Allow me to share what I remember about Miss Tander.
Am I the only one that thinks whomever started hospital week purposefully made it the same week as nurses week to avoid having to recognize nurses? Or am I just a crazed conspiracy theorist?
How is your Nurses Week going so far? Get any cards?
Here is a story for Nurses' Week that takes you on a fantasy voyage to the Good Place, where you encounter several patients you took care of in your earthly life....including one whom you'd never expect to run into in the hereafter.
All the technological advancements, all the miracles of modern medicine, all the scientific innovation. And ultimately we can't save people from themselves.
A former facility thought they could multi task the housekeepers by having them be lab techs. If they were in a room cleaning, they could drop their mops and get a few vials of blood for us. That lasted about a month before it was thankfully stopped.
Our NICU has limited wall space and counter space to place hand sanitizers. Our solution was to attach hand sanitizers with brackets to our Giraffe Omnibeds, cribs, and isolettes for easier access and less " disappearing" of sanitizers from counter tops. Does anyone know of other units attaching the sanitizer to the beds? Our engineering dept. will do this for us, but would like feedback from other units.
Alright, so I need to vent (I seem to need to do this a lot, maybe I shouldn't work every day). EMS brings me a 93 year old man from a nursing home who fell from his chair and hit his head. Non-urgent, head lac, no biggie. Until, of course, I get him undressed.
This poor old guy was totally AAO and coherent. He had been moved to the nursing home because his wife couldn't take care of him alone any longer and they have no family.
Treatment with assistive reproductive technology is associated with an increased risk of birth defects, but it is not clear whether this risk is due to the infertility treatments or the underlying biology preventing conception, according to a study published online May 5 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with presentation at the annual clinical meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, held from May 5 to 9 in San Diego.
Yesterday at work, I was taking the blood sugar on a patient and after putting the blood on the strip and waiting the 8 years for our ancient, piece of c r a p glucometer to read the results, it read "error" so I grabbed another strip, reset the glucometer and instead of poking the guy again, attempted to just squeeze out another drop from where I already stabbed his finger - BIG MISTAKE.
Not too long ago, I had an assignment in our fast track area, working with a notoriously slow provider. Folks were waiting longer than usual for their non-emergent and often not-even-urgent complaints, and getting more upset than usual. I had one family start to carry on...
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