pfongk

pfongk

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pfongk has 20ish years experience and specializes in Aged care, disability, community.


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  1. What are the chances of people needing CPR on the floor and not a bed? The reason I ask this is the last time I did my CPR update the guy that ran it was an ex paramedic and rode bikes, he taught us how to do chest compressions with our feet so if we...
  2. Bending and Breaking the Rules in Nursing

    I got permission from the CN the other day to give a resident on a minced diet pancakes and maple syrup for breakfast. I ended up cutting them up as small as I can so that they were essentially minced and feeding them to her. Our facility is fantasti...
  3. Ranch dressing in a breast milk container

    I've currently got a sterile water bottle in the fridge that's filled with home made tomato sauce.
  4. What do you wear to work, fellow aides?

    whatever we pick from the company uniform catalogue that's acceptable for our area, we also have to wear enclosed shoes. I personally wear the navy blue polo and cargo shorts with black leather sneakers.
  5. Now THAT'S a lab result

    INR of 17. Onery old man in his late 90s. He lived for at least the time he was in the LCF I worked at for. I'm assuming he's dead though as he left there 11 years ago. B/P of 60/40. Unable to stand and the ER was a funny grey colour. I don't know ...
  6. I got played by a kindergartner My

    We used to put the tooth in a cup of water on the windowsill and when we woke up in the morning there was a coin in the cup. I remember one year when I was a camp firstaider, we had a kid lose a tooth and they were quite upset about the toothfairy no...
  7. Tools for opening medication packets?

    I used to use a thing called a pillbob when I was handing out meds. I used to wipe it over between each person with an alcowipe.
  8. Average "Wait Time" For A Parent?

    It takes me 40 minutes minimum to get from my workplace to my son's school due to fact I work that far away from the school. Some of the kids travel up to an hour and live on properties out of town, I have no idea what those parents do as if you're i...
  9. red and raw bottom

    I've previously used a chux heavy duty dish cloth in the nappy, covered the child's butt in amolin (almond oil, calamine and zinc) nappy rash cream and when I've changed the nappy, blow dried before applying the cream with a hair dryer on cool. This ...
  10. Medication Disposal

    We have something in Australia called the R.U.M. (return unwanted medicines) project. Basically we throw all drugs into a large yellow bucket that a lot of staff call a rum bucket and then it is taken to a pharmacy and they dispose of it for you.
  11. How do you sign your name?

    first initial surname all in cursive then my role and in brackets my surname printed afterwards. Unless it's for TAFE in which case I have a scanned "signature" on my computer I can insert in, it's basically the same but at a different angle and smil...
  12. Fentanyl patch

    Ours are covered with an adhesive dressing similar to the sticky stuff on primapore (blank on name sorry) with a hole cut in the middle so we can see what type of patch it is and the dressing is dated with when the patch was applied. The patch is the...
  13. Breast milk pumping at school student

    There was no meds in this fridge as such, it was all tetra packs of novasource or similar so if by some chance my milk had spilt, all that would've happened is it would've been wiped up and I would've cried.
  14. Breast milk pumping at school student

    Red Kryptonite the World Health Organisation actually. WHO | Breast is always best, even for HIV-positive mothers
  15. Breast milk pumping at school student

    Actually according to the CDC breast-milk is not classed as a body fluid. Breastfeeding: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | DNPAO | CDC I pumped at the nursing home I worked at and my milk was never segregated. It just had to be well labelled so as ...