Wow. A lovely story. That was obviously in the pre-surfactant days. Nowadays he'd be intubated, given surfactant, then probably extubated to NCPAP in the morning. NCPAP for awhile, then the feeder-grower thing. Amazing.
Is she pregnant? If she's that developmentally delayed she may have lacked the ability to consent to sex and that might explain some of her refusal to be reasoned with as far as meds?
It's not as harmful as you think. When giving the vitamin K shot to a one pound baby it's easy to hit the vone and I've had our doctors say it's not harmful.
I'm tempted to respond with live rent free and drive 90 min. But are you sure you can get there on time? Let one of us SoCal drivers who doesn't know how to drive in the rain have an accident and you've just added another 30 min!
It sounds like this nurse went a step or two beyone merely calling up a census list and seeing which nurse was assigned to which pt. It's mentioned that she went through charts one by one. She didn't think she was violating HIPAA (I assume) since sh...
I read your whole post and I don't have a headache. Paragraphs would have been nice but I can tell you are discussing a concern you have so I will respond rather than continuing to scroll by. I feel bad for you. It seems you have your symptoms docume...
You mention you've "been called mean and stuff" and you "feel like they expect you to allow him to touch my bits" Depending exactly what and how this was said, they are starting to border on sexual harrassment. Management to employee. And sexual har...
