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
Actually, an good idea someone had did become reality... We use Prisma CVVHD machines that are probably older than me. :-) The caution alarms on them are real quiet.
The geography of our new unit makes this problematic since, unless you're sitting on top of the machine, you can't hear it alarm. So, we have purchased some new Prisma machines that we can hook into the call bell system, so if they caution alarm goes off and you're say, more than 2 feet away, the call bell will ring and draw attention. Nifty!
Of course, the running joke in our unit now is that it won't make a difference since us ICU nurses don't recognize and/or ignore call bells anyway. hehehehe
How about a Ritalin Salt Block at the front door that every hyper child is required to lick on their way in to the office. Sure would prevent them from doing laps around the building, climbing on my desk, jumping on the scales, etc.
I'd like to see spray bottles of food flavors, so patients on G or J tubes get a taste of bacon, toast, chicken soup, etc. while others eat.
I actually have seen those in the gourmet food store by me... le goutmet chef - though i don't think that those patients were the inspiration - but it would work!!
I would like a handheld pulse ox machine that DOES NOT EVER BEEP. I can read, thank you and don't need to wake people up for a quickie pulse ox at two AM.
Hey Indy, I have seen an add for a handheld pulse ox in a critical care nurse magazine. Lord only knows how much they cost! No idea if they beep or not.
Instead of an spray can of ativan, get a continuous dose by sending it hourly through the air vent in each room!! And one at the n. station for whe you feel like you might lose you cool with some cocky MD.
See me dreaming about it . . . .
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Actually, an good idea someone had did become reality... We use Prisma CVVHD machines that are probably older than me. :-) The caution alarms on them are real quiet.
The geography of our new unit makes this problematic since, unless you're sitting on top of the machine, you can't hear it alarm. So, we have purchased some new Prisma machines that we can hook into the call bell system, so if they caution alarm goes off and you're say, more than 2 feet away, the call bell will ring and draw attention. Nifty!
Of course, the running joke in our unit now is that it won't make a difference since us ICU nurses don't recognize and/or ignore call bells anyway.
hehehehe