When I worked ICU, we had nurse techs who assisted with bed baths, but all nurses bathed their own pts. Since most of the pts were sedated/comatose/immobile, it took 2 people to do a bath, turn the pt and change the sheets. It was a good time to lis...
Stargazer replied to researchrabbit's topic in General Nursing
Well, that'll teach those girls that S-E-X is evil and bad and scary and they should give up any plans they have for using those naughty parts "down there" until they're safely married and even then it should be lights off, door locked, under the cov...
~sigh~ Apparently this needs to be stated yet again. I don't care what you do on an official break, whether that is a 15-minute break, a lunch break, or all your breaks for the shift combined into one, as long as this is accepted practice in your uni...
Very true. I once had a pt tell me at 3 AM that she "just didn't feel good." Because she was diabetic, she thought she was having an insulin reaction of some kind. After taking her history, I was about to call the doc when somewhere in the back of my...
You can see this on any episode of Survivor. Of course, with most of the Survivor contestants, it's not that they value philosophy more than food or shelter, it's that they're lazy, dumb, and/or easily distracted by shiny things.
I understand the impulse though. We can return SOME expired supplies for credit, but a lot of items can't be returned and we just eat the cost. It kills me to throw away perfectly good IV solution and ACLS drugs because they're, like, 1 minute expire...
I know that Doctors Without Borders won't take expired medical supplies as donations, so I suspect there are legitimate reasons for the product dating.
I know that our expired endotracheal tubes have to be replaced, even though they're just inactive latex or similar. When I asked our supplier (a trusted colleague for 13 years, not a sleazy company rep) why, she said that they are no longer guarantee...
Stargazer replied to roxannekkb's topic in International
Exactly, llg. I have enormous respect for her as an epidemiologist and researcher, but I think a lot of people don't know about that part of her work. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/nitegale.htm
Found this on a quickie Google search: http://www.va.gov/visns/visn02/network/pubs/homeoxygenrespiratorytherapy.pdf I presume the oxygen company has provided written instructions, or can fax some or direct you to their website. They should also have ...