Sometimes you need to hear an encouraging word, or know that someone is saying something good about you.
‘Cause nurses do enough to doubt themselves.
(Source: whoanursing)
Not to be a wet blanket, but be safe as you party for St. Patrick’s day.
Spare yourself the reason to visit me in the ED.
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…even if some are common occurrences, they are frightening enough in the moment to cause the nurse’s heart to race.
1. Blood exploding out from arterial line site, when you peek in after holding pressure for some time.
2. When you roll a patient to check their back after they arrive from recovery room, only to discover they are covered in an enormous pool of blood
3. A patient talking to you, alert and oriented, and then a moment later witnessing cardiac arrest
4. Watching a patient fall from across the unit – as fast as you scamper across; you still don’t make it in time, and you hear and see the very loud thud.
5. Patient waving an IV pole above head and threatening any staff that comes nearby. And security asking why you paged them for help
6. Traumatic injuries that include object still in patient, either sliced through or holding vital organs in place
7. In Pacu, eviscerated abdominal contents when you lift the sheet.
8. Also in Pacu, femoral sheath pops – and an enormous hematoma develops the size of a football within seconds before you can apply pressure
9. When the patient extubates themselves, or tracheostomy pops out – even worse when an intrepid intern pops the trach back in a major subcutaneous emphysema develops.
10. Observing a nurse/nurses aid glance up at call bell light and look away. Apathy is the scariest of all
Numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 (without the intern intervention. Changed trachs doing home care pts. ), 10; all in a ‘day-in-the-life’ of a nurse.
Number 10 is scary.
"— IdleDancer: Nursing: 10 OF THE SCARIEST THINGS SEEN IN A HOSPITAL
Yesterday, I looked at the…I guess that it’s the statistics for this and found out that I had 100 followers. Which is a bit of a shock, because I hadn’t been thinking of that aspect of it.
But now I feel kind of
So
Thank you for making my Monday.
Dr. Eric Topol describes how your cellphone has the potential to become:
- an ECG,
- sonogram,
- glucose meter,
- used for serum and urology analysis,
- in conjunction with nano sensors indicating damage to artery linings,
- all of the monitors you’d encounter in an ICU on a wrist unit.
Then he describes how 1/3 of prescriptions are not effective (don’t get stated results, have too many side-effects and therefore need further intervention), mass screenings wasting money. AND…he says patients need to take ownership of their health.
Welcome to his view of medicine in the near future, how it will change the way it is delivered, and its focus.
Potential troubles with electronic medical records and patient communication.
I work at a major medical center. This is an email I received at work this week. Still considering a career in healthcare?
Email Subject: Just as a head’s up.
Email Body: If RN’s try to return used leeches to the pharmacy, do NOT accept them. There is a misconception among the RNs that pharmacy has been disposing of used leeches once they have been removed from the patient’s body; this is not correct.
Pharmacy is merely dispensing the leeches prior to their use; once the leech has been used, it is a blood product (thus pharmacy does not deal with it further). The RN is supposed to kill and then dispose of the leech in her biohazard waste (from my understanding). If they need further clarification on disposal, perhaps they could talk with their nursing supervisor, or the previous shift’s nurse. But bottom line: once the leech has been used, do NOT under any circumstances accept the leech from the nurse, regardless of what they say.
Anyone have a policy and procedure on medical leeches????
