Super CPNE vets--about the wound

I didn't move the wound. Remember, it's attached to an imaginary human.

It was on my right, as if someone were opposite me and reaching out their left arm, wound towards the front.

There's a top and a bottom to the stump on which you dress the wound. It's a piece of an arm. A pretend arm.

Beats me, AC. Seriously.

Is there a pointy tip towards what I am assuming was the elbow? Try it with that on top.

You can move the wound around. There is not rule that says it has to stay in a certain spot.

I totally flipped the fake arm around to orient the wound the way I wanted -- with the pointiest end of the wound towards the top. In a real patient, you could orient them any way you like, so they allow this during the lab.

At the CPNE we specifically asked if we could re-position the arm if we wanted to and the CEs and CA said yes.


There is no real top or bottom of the wound. There is a narrower gash on one end and a wider one on the other end.


I did find that the 4x4 gauze in the cube that comes with the CPNE skills kit seemed not as thick as the one at the CPNE, SO that actually worked to an advantage - being thicker helped cover the wound more.


One more thing - You can practice and practice wound packing but each time you will never be able to repeat the same exact way you just did it - you kinda just "go with it...", other wise you will drive your self crasy.


Good luck!


gail

Hiya!! At least at Grady you could move the wound any way you wanted it. Ask during the orientation to the labs. My understanding is you can position it to your comfort. I worried over the wound more than any other station, because I felt like it was the one station where you need a natural talent, dexterity to be good at it, but from my experience at the CPNE, they sat in a chair on the opposite side while I packed the wound and they did not get up and look at it after it was packed. It was soooo much more about sterile technique than packing. I used the modified rope version, (I twisted the end a little bit, but nothing else) and it was fine. Good luck, hope this helps!!!