Hello, to help clarify a few good points given already: btw I'm active duty currently in the 91W M6 program just beginning 2nd half of phase 2 at Walter Reed at Washington D.C. The only requirement is...
Hello, I'm a nursing student for the army and we ran into an ethical conflict today regarding DNR's. The patient we had today is on DNR and has mucous deep down her throat. The students were told that...
Hmm...thought up of unique hypothetical cases such as what if the patient was in this state and wanted to sleep face down in her pillow. Whatever we did she would roll back over and didn't want our...
well the patient was breathing at 26 resp a min! and was spiking a temp at the time as well. Her pulse ox was at 93% and it felt strange that no one checked twice about my finds. Maybe cuz i'm still...
wow thanks for the responses, I'm glad that there is documentation that it is advised not to suction because it will most likely cause more harm than good. That was a big issue today where us, the...
Hello, I am currently a M6 student at Ft. Sam Houston and am about to finish phase 1 and am going to my phase 2 site at Walter Reed. Feels good passing the last test today :). Anyways I'll check the...