netties

so many stories, so little time...One of the most memorable was seeing the look on my charge nurses face (my mentor of course) as she came out of a room a few months back. It seems as though she had a "wardrobe malfunction." She was wearing a snap front scrub top and didn't have anything underneath other than her bra. She caught her top on the edge of a crib and low and behold, the patients aunt got a nice view of some can cans. OOPS!! She was mortified, I however was rolling on the floor. I hear it happened again a view weeks later, only this time the top was nice enough to stay secured w/ one snap! :rotfl:

As a nurse, I have had several experiences (all w/ some degree of humor)with post mortem care, the most interesting my grandfathers. The last few hours of his life he was constantly leaking stool. My mother and I being the caring nurses we are, would help clean him up, all the while letting the staff know that it was okay to joke w/ us about his pooping problems. See, my gpa was always famous for giving my mom s**t all the time (this time literally and albeit very potent). Guess he thought he could keep on doing it up until the end. I think the nrsg staff was actually kind of shocked at how light hearted we were about the whole thing. I think that nurses need to take their "fun seriously" while working. I know on my unit everyone looks to me for humor/anecdotes and I hear it's quite boring/depressing w/o my comments to keep things lively!!

in the past 18 months our facility switched from a home grown pain assessment tool to the flacc and i can tell you we love it. we use it on all patients greater than 28 days (we use the n-pass for those younger) until they are able to comprehend the faces scale. we especially like being able to use the flacc in the middle of the night and patients who may be able to use the faces or numeric scale while awake, but who wants to wake a patient just to see if they are in pain. duh? also, we REALLY like using the flacc on developmentally delayed/special needs patients. we seem to be having much better feedback from families that they feel their childs pain was well managed. hope this helps!!!

well my dear, at the children's hosp i work at we have some very stringent infection control practices. everyone cringes when the infection control nurses are rounding. i have know people to even hide from them. that being said, ALL of our patients that are even suspected to have a gastroenteritis are placed in "contact" isolation. That is that one must be wearing a gown and gloves in order to enter the room. The patient is not allowed to leave the room unless they need to go off the unit for a test. If this is necessary the destination department is alerted when the order is entered that the patient is in isolation. when the pt leaves the room, he/she must be covered up by blankets and is not allowed to touch or play w/ anything on the jouney. All toys, games, etc. that are brought to the pt are thoroughly cleansed by our child life staff when the pt is finished w/ the item. quite enjoyable but when our staff follows appropriately we have few nosocomial infections (i.e. transfer of such wonderful ailment such as rotavirus!!!)