What a pain it is for a patient to get finger pokes every hour on an insulin gtt. (We aren't allowed to pull off an art line for samples) Why hasn't someone invented a little finger heparin pad thingy or a finger port to keep a small ooze available? :studyowl:
And how about beds with a detachable center hole under the patient's bum so we can slide a bucket underneath too catch poo? hee hee
These are available here in Kentucky, as well as sit down MRI's and open MRI's (which aren't very open when you're having it done on your head and theres a cage around you)
What about an operant conditioning reward system set up for the unit clerk? If she can transcribe the orders quickly and without mistakes a door will pop open and a little chocolate goodie will be available. If she chats on the phone with her friends or leaves my chart sitting for hours while she has smoke breaks, etc., then another door will pop open and some hideous, stinky item will be launched into her face!
I'd like a bed that FLUSHES, with maybe a little bidet being part of it, or a hose with a sprayer, followed by a puff of warm air. I'd also like easy- to -put -on sweats for elderly and quadraplegic (maybe with velcro on the inseams, and out seams).
Great idea! I'm a huge fan of bidets and fanny driers like they have in Japan. Pericare solution, soap, and wipes seem to do more harm than good, as they leave residues on the skin and never really get a chance to dry, plus rubbing irritated skin is painful. My mom never used wipes on us except when we were away from home. Rather, she'd wipe off the worst of the mess, rinse us off with water, pat us dry, and let us have some barebutt time. She said that we rarely, if ever, got diaper rash. Portable bidets would be great.
I'd even love it if we could have linens already stocked in the rooms (done by some other department besides Nursing), right along with Bowel Prep orders or appropriate dx's.
Okay, my idea would be a efficient paging system for nurses on different aspects of care in the rooms.
Say for instance your IV has 30 more cc's in it, or is occluded...a pager would tell you the room number and the probelm so you can prioritize well (instead of the constant pain of beep beep beep in the pt rooms). That way the IV won't beep every few minutes waking patients or upsetting them, and you have the ability to prioritize without the patient even being bothered by it!
I am all for having equipment in a patients room ready to go so I don't have to chase things down, or use something that has been used on several patients in a day!
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whoamiRN
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I'd definately get one of those!