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  1. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    As I said, I never thought intubation an option. I am concerned that a patient in this state was left without observation, at the end of a ward, with no nurse easily able to keep in line of

  2. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    What part have you not bothered to read. She had been unconscious since sometime during the day - she'd been reviewed by medical teams, had a scan and other tests - no one could wake her, and her...

  3. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    As for Abg, I don't know who brought that up, but such thoughts never crossed my mind. As for why she would aspirated that doesn't even matter why, the question you should be asking is why not.any...

  4. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Then we will have to disagree. But then I do have to wonder how much experience you have had in the broader nursing field and how many different places you have worked. And yes, you should always...

  5. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    No, I don't think intubation needed either. I simply thought unconscious, risk of aspiration and death. Kept it really simple. What if that had happened on my shift, the agency nurses shift? They...

  6. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    It will open your eyes. The strangest thing is, you see a number of ways of doing the same thing, and it gets to the stage that when you go to a new hospital, you ask them how to do something, and...

  7. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    What even more incredible is this is the tip of the iceberg. But this is what life is like when you spend you work traveling/temping in places around the country and world. This really is quite...

  8. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Actually, there was one person that agreed with me. There was another nurse whom I began working there with, from NZ, from my home hospital, a friend, who was working that night. Didn't bother to...

  9. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm amazed you think my experiences are too unusual to have in a regular

  10. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    You're so funny. I just hope for your patients' sake you figure out the difference between sleep and

  11. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    So far I'm pretty surprised that no one thinks she should be observed, especially from nurses working in the most litigious country in the world. As I said, I'm basing my expectations on what I was...

  12. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Is the oral airway going to help if she

  13. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm putting intubation out there as an idea. I would have expected her to be monitored. Imagine if theis was in American - I'm assuming for litigious reasons alone she'd at least be somewhere she...

  14. Was I right, wrong, or am I going crazy

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    It's actually quite a serious topic, if you have a read of

  15. I Hate People (my rant)

    nursingaround1 replied to AlyaMF's topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    Hate always ends up hurting the person doing the hating. But you never know what may happen when you're forced to care for someone. It could be the biggest mistake ever, or it could be something that...

  16. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nursingaround1 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I never believed my dad's supernatural story, although now I do. He's nearly 80yrs old, and is so sincere, and so adamant that what happened when he was a boy, really happened. He's so serious, he...

  17. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nursingaround1 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    I swear I've heard this or something similar before - this can't be real... can

  18. What's Your Best Nursing Ghost Story?

    nursingaround1 replied to steffck's topic in General Nursing

    Is this real? It sounds so unbelievable, but I'm finding myself believing you. Was it clear picture, was it human

  19. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Oh, that one was actually in New Zealand. The kid came round, and said he was fine, but the officer insisted he get checked out, so he came to us looking fine. The hospital had a policy of all adults...

  20. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I'm curious what the diagnosis was - a simple 'vaso-vagal' or something more. 3 times certainly needs to be checked up more thoroughly. What was she doing at the time? Did she lose consciousness every...

  21. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    I think this shows the huge difference in environment, culture, and expectations. At school, I'm usually called out to a faint, and by the time I get there, they are fine, although I have had some...

  22. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    It's vey interesting. For the faint with the police officer on the 16yr old boy, once he converted, he was sent home. Common sense and experience in that unit tells me he would have been told to...

  23. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Just a question for the general community - would a teenager with a faint automatically get an

  24. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    Yes, because I originally saw no indication for it, but after listening to what you say, and the fact he died 24hrs later, it would have been worth a

  25. Your worst nightmare

    nursingaround1 replied to nursingaround1's topic in General Nursing

    And you're probably right, and it may have saved his life, in fact it probably would have. If it was ischaemia, I would have expected some changes, perhaps some ST elevation, or something else. Sadly,...