They can put a man on the moon. Why Can't They....

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To me, it would seem that they could improve the quality of life for the Inpatient in so many ways. I think if they could put a man on the moon, surely they could....

* Invent a smaller K pill?

* Invent a tastier po K elixir

* Invent a "burnless" K rider

* Find an easier-to-take bowel prep than GoLytely

What are some of your ideas?

Specializes in floor to ICU.

I would like an invention that is hooked up to the doc on call and if he/she doesn't call back within a certain amount of time the get a little "shock" to remind them!! Nothing deadly, just a little jolt...

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I deal with pain management constantly in trauma, which is why I stated that should you not receive satisfaction in med orders from some certain MDs suggest your next step to be contact with the hospital ethics committee since the pt is in such agony.

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Elevators in which the patient, their bed, their IV pole, their vent, their monitor, their nurse and their RT can fit????? I am so sick of getting so bungled up in the d**n elevators cause some genius who has never used one with patient refuses to design with equipment and ease of use in mind

This is a beef about my personal facility:

PICC's can ONLY be inserted by radiologist. Well guess what, the radiologists won't come up to our floor and use U/S to do it cause they are too lazy to walk to the (SMALL) elevator and do it. So my patient who is 500+ pounds, on a vent, nitric, pressors, and bariatric bed CAN NOT fit on the elevator to come to the million dollar radiologist. And so my patient goes without a PICC and the pulmonologist has to spend 3 hours trying to put in CICC. :angryfire

Here's for LARGER ELEVATORS, MORE PORTABLE EQUIPMENT and REASONABLE RADIOLOGISTS!!

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nope-my mammogram didn't hurt either...What HURT was being jacked up OFF the floor by my twins....The MAMMOGRAM was not bad at all....

oh my god . . .bwaaa haa haaa haaa . .. :chuckle :crying2:

Sorry about that ktwlpn.

Can't stop laughing though.

ouch.

steph

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Specializes in Community Health Nurse.
I would like an invention that is hooked up to the doc on call and if he/she doesn't call back within a certain amount of time the get a little "shock" to remind them!! Nothing deadly, just a little jolt...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

I'd bet my next month's wages that more people would get screened for colon cancer if someone were to invent a less invasive (and unpleasant) way to examine the bowel!!

This is the one test I have NOT been after my over-50 family members to have done, even though I've told them they need to do so and explained all the benefits of catching colon Ca in the earliest stages. I've put too many people through the bowel prep and SEEN that garden hose they run up into one's colon......

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Specializes in med/surg.
I would like an invention that is hooked up to the doc on call and if he/she doesn't call back within a certain amount of time the get a little "shock" to remind them!! Nothing deadly, just a little jolt...

How I would've loved something like this when I worked nights and the on-call was nowhere to be found. :devil:

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Specializes in med/surg.

get all the computers, their programs and other equipment (like dynamaps) working properly, free of bugs, and serviced in a timely manner?

or provide a dynamap (automatic bp cuff) that doesn't measure 210/100 in one arm, 130/87 in the other, while the manual pressure you take is actually 120/64?

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

LOL Oh, and this is for us lovely folks with a little of the old eyesight probelms...a manual BP cuff with larger numbers LOL!!!!!! I like taking my bps with manual cuffs, but those numbers are looking smaller and smaller by the day..LOL! We have digital ones, or even part digital part manual, but how about just making the numbers a bit bigger on the old manual cuffs? LOL!!!!!!! Just a silly thing I thought of!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

And while we're on the subject.......

Why can't they invent:

1) CPM machines that are simple to use and can be put back together by someone who doesn't have a degree in engineering?

2) Beds that actually STEER?

3) Non-tangling tubes and wires?

4) An easy-to-use lift?

5) A bionic back for those of us who will never be able to afford to retire ?? :chuckle

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Specializes in Education, Acute, Med/Surg, Tele, etc.

LOL, how about those automatic walkways set for a nurses day (like they have in airports)...you can have fast, faster, and OH CRUD!

Or let us Nurse's have little powerscooter with lights and sirens and a nice little basket for items! LOL!!!! And make it lease to own so you can have it when you retire or for just home use when you are to tired to move!

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical.

How about a pill that can cure all diseases? Then we are all out of jobs. Except for OB/GYNE. LOL.

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