Mad at myself right now. :(

[NurseCard]

So, I'm actually one of only 2-3 nurses at my small hospital who

is any good at applying Wound Vacs.

We have a lady who currently has a gigantic wound on her

lower leg. As in, the entire lower leg is a wound, beefy red

with slough here and there.

I tried. I tried to get the Wound Vac dressing on.

I failed. The patient, after Percocet, Dilaudid,

crying and screaming, telling me to stop... I had

to give up and cover the leg back up with a

dressing.

I feel like crap.

[missmollie, ADN, BSN, RN]

I hate wound vacs. If worse comes to worse, seal it the best you can and hook it up to wall suction. Some suction is better than none, and no annoying beeping from the wound vac machine.

Don't be disappointed, those machines suck both literally and figuratively.