Let's play I Remember When.....

JillR, I sugar in the wound was for"nourishment" to the tissues and the oxygen mask was to deliver concentrated O2 to the tissues, which is basically why they use hyperbaric oxygen(HBO)chambers today for wounds. The responses to my post have been great! Today I remembered some other good ones. I remember when...after giving an injection we had to cut the needle, then the hub, and then dispose the ruined syringe in a cardboard box. We had a little tool for sitting on the med room counter, similar to what the labs used not too long ago to remove the needle from the needle holder. Well, we only had the one tool, so when it was full, we had to clean it out. Inside the the tool was a plastic stool speciman cup. The cut needles would be stuck to the bottom in dried medication and blood. We picked out each little piece of broken needle with our fingers, NO GLOVES! and then rinsed it out. I can't believe we did this and it never occurred to us to just get another stool speciman cup and replace it!! ...when patients had sterling silver trachs,(I have one in my curio cabinet), I also remember glass IV bottles....when there was too many staff and we had the option of staying or going home, most of us stayed because we knew it was going to be an easy shift!!...when it was an absolute no-no to walk by a wet spot on the hall floor!...when I thought that I was making big bucks at my first LPN job when I started out at $4.29/ hour and that included my $.50/hour night shift differential! I can't wait to read more!!!