For all us ancient ones, how about remembering an oldie - aramine IV drip!
Was watching an oldie TV channel and Dragnet, Squad 51 (can't remember the real name, but it was with firemen/paramedics Gage & Desoto) and then Emergency came on. Some snakebite pt had bottomed out and was in the ER. All nurse Dixie McCall was doing was taking a manual blood pressure, handing the docs meds (that docs administered) and making phone calls.
No specific directions; just "an aramine drip".
I got the biggest kick watching the nurses walking around in their white uniform dresses and their white heeled shoes (beige pantyhose) and wearing their caps. (I am an antique nurse who loves nursing caps!).
So for you all you nurses out there, what are some of the obscure and oft forgotten meds that we all used to use at some time can you name???
Aramine precipitated this thread, but I also offer that oldie, aldomet. Any others???
As far as I know (which isn't saying much, ha ha) the cap is specific to which nursing school you went to. Each school had their own style. You got the stripe for RN; the LPN's cap were plain white. I was always charge and never had but one wide black stripe.
The cap and stripes were from the schools / nursing programs. No strips I know of from where you worked ,charge or not.
I remember (not that long ago) using pieces of tape to label every channel manually for what drip we were giving on it, then making little tape flags at the end of the lines where they plugged into the CVL to keep them all straight. Now if you program the pump the preferred way, using the "smart" database, all of the med names will display on the pump. Good luck getting anyone to do THAT though. Not nearly as fun as tape flag arts and crafts, I guess.
My unit still does the little tape flags and labels, plus using the programmed med library. I guess we're a bit tape-happy
Back in the 50's & 60's, typical sex roles were clearly present A/E/B girls' Christmas presents/toys. There were the little kitchenette sets with the stove, sink & refrig. And the little dish set with the little teacups & saucers .
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Back in the 50's & 60's, typical sex roles were clearly present A/E/B girls' Christmas presents/toys. There were the little kitchenette sets with the stove, sink & refrig. And the little dish set with the little teacups & saucers .
They still have those....my daughter LOVED them! My daughter cooked and my son "fixed things" with his Cool Tools.
Now here's a real oldie - remember paper cutout dolls that were all THE THING when we were little?[/]
Yes ! We used to get them from my mom's "McCall's" magazine....every month there was a new one, with (I think) an extra outfit....the paper doll's name was Betsy McCall, remember her? Good Lord I'm ancient
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As I said earlier.... Randolph Mantooth....oh......swoon.... I loved him when I was 12!
Had to come beck to the post. I know Bobby Troup) )husband to Julie London - Dixie Mc/Call) was a musician. And I knew she was a lounge club/nightclub singer. But the other night, I did really see her in a 1959 western movie with Robert Mitchum. She was attractive.
Yes! I worked L&D and an older nurse told me this. Crazy!
She said she thought there was a correlation between those babies and alcoholism. Not sure if that was an actual fact or just a theory she had.
I had a colleague who had lost several pregnancies and was finally put to bed with an EtOH drip for several months. She had the baby...but it was a classic FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) baby. That's the correlation-- you can drink your booze or get it IV, but it's still really bad for fetuses. So sad.
I had a colleague who had lost several pregnancies and was finally put to bed with an EtOH drip for several months. She had the baby...but it was a classic FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome) baby. That's the correlation-- you can drink your booze or get it IV, but it's still really bad for fetuses. So sad.
Was this before the realization that alcohol was harmful to a fetus? Or was the risk/benefit weighed and it thought that a FAS baby was better than a miscarried one?
Was this before the realization that alcohol was harmful to a fetus? Or was the risk/benefit weighed and it thought that a FAS baby was better than a miscarried one?
It was a long time ago, in the 70s. I think FAS was just beginning to be appreciated, but they were still thinking in terms of alcoholic mothers, maybe as a vitamin deficiency or ...?, not clean-living ICU nurses who desperately wanted to maintain a pregnancy.
Specializes in Emergency/Trauma/Critical Care Nursing.
I was just thinking of something... How did they monitor O2 sats before pulse ox came about? I mean obviously there was blood gases but you aren't doing them around the clock, especially with neonates. Just curious if anyone knows...
I was just thinking of something... How did they monitor O2 sats before pulse ox came about? I mean obviously there was blood gases but you aren't doing them around the clock, especially with neonates. Just curious if anyone knows...
I would imagine they could only monitor for observable signs of hypoxia like lips turning blue or changes in LOC
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The cap and stripes were from the schools / nursing programs. No strips I know of from where you worked ,charge or not.