A few years ago, we were talking about how cool it would be to have a way to hook suction up to a patient's genitals and simply vacuum away the urine, and then someone invented the primafit. Years ago, we were talking about how the docs were prescribing Vicodin for arthritis pain, and how cool it would be if they would combine ibuprofen with the hydrocodone instead of acetaminophen because it would also act as an anti-inflammatory...and then someone invented Vicoprofin. What healthcare products have you "invented", only to see it come to fruition as an actual invention? What healthcare products/meds would you invent, if you had the means to produce it. Maybe we can get together and make some things happen and create some things to work smarter, not harder. I would like to see wireless tele, stick on forehead temp probes(wireless), a better way to check blood sugar in patient than relentlessly poking sore, fragile fingers, and a butt coating product that stayed on to stop further excoriation from loose stools. (I probably want much more, but that's all I can think of off hand.)
A way to chart without typing. Oh, they already have that but only doctors are allowed to use it. Nurses get sent to the hand surgeon for their carpal tunnel surgeries secondary to too much clicking on the effing computer/bean counter.
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8 hours ago, JBMmom said:
I wish that the monitors in the unit could be made wireless. We have wireless technology as small as earbuds, why can't the tele leads and pulse ox have a similar thing. Then again, that might exist already, but my hospital wouldn't pay a penny extra for it.
But think of all the ones that would go missing... my facility would probably use that as justification to back off on raises or bonuses or something.
I work in Oncology and have been a cancer patient myself so I know firsthand how awful saline flushes taste when you're nauseous. I mean, this applies to non-cancer patients as well, but for some reason it was just worsened when I had cancer. It doesn't bother me as much now. So, finding away for saline flushes to have no after taste.
I've been told it is a combination of several things:
- The plastic leeches chemicals into the saline which causes the unpleasant taste
- The fact that it goes past the olfactory nerve so you are smelling it and not tasting it
-Microscopic molecules in the saline flush
I do tell patients to suck on mints or hard candies but patients who are NPO can't do that so we still have patients who experience it.
Is this issue life ending? No. But some people get real cranky about it and I wish I could do something about it permanently.
Back in my days as a charge nurse in LTC/ Medicare rehab unit, we were always pushing Ensure, milkshakes, etc on the poor little patients who just didn't want them. I always thought that if they put Ensure in beer bottle lookalike containers, some of those patients would think it was happy hour and drink up!!
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A way to chart without typing. Oh, they already have that but only doctors are allowed to use it. Nurses get sent to the hand surgeon for their carpal tunnel surgeries secondary to too much clicking on the effing computer/bean counter.