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Talking the other day at work about how much things have changed since our training days in the 60s and 70s.The young ones couldnt believe that there were designated areas for different years of training in the meal rooms.We werent allowed to enter a lift before our senior nurses or doctors.I can remember that if someone died on your shift you were responsible for that person till they had been removed to the morgue.Had to stay back once 2 hours after my shift ended at 11pmbecause of that and still had to start at 6 in the morning.Split shifts were normal.The opening of pillow cases had to face away from the doorway.(still do that out of habit).Testing urine using a bunsen burner.What do others remember?

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Oh, this is great fun. Reminding my of MOM skin care, clysis, glass IV bottles. sharpening needles and wrapping them for the autoclave. Metal cans with rubber NG tubes for patients who would not eat, ECT without anything except anectine, spine to navel incisions for kidney ops, And oh, yeah, smoking and charting in the nurses station. Caps, whites, straight seams, polished shoes... Once, I had no decent white nylons, wore tan and my supervisor said, "Oh, look. We have a waitress working today."

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ummmm...what is clysis?

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Smoking in the lobby/ nurses station at my LTC faclity has only been gone for about 10 years.

I think its a shame that some nurses are reminiscing about manual bps. Does everyone really use the pumps?

The one think that I probably couldn't nurse without today is air conditioning.

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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.

What is clysis? Hypodermoclysis: The injection of fluids (usually NS) into the subcutaneous tissues to supply the body with liquids. I've given it in the thighs; have seen it given in the back. Back in the day there was a specific tubing set-up with two ports designed for the purpose. Haven't seen one of them for years.

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What is clysis? Hypodermoclysis: The injection of fluids (usually NS) into the subcutaneous tissues to supply the body with liquids. I've given it in the thighs; have seen it given in the back. Back in the day there was a specific tubing set-up with two ports designed for the purpose. Haven't seen one of them for years.

Vets still do this. And, I remember not long ago in Maine in an LTC facility, they were thinking about inservicing staff on this. I did not realize this was an older procedure since none of us had ever heard of it.

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Oh, this is great fun. Reminding my of MOM skin care, clysis, glass IV bottles. sharpening needles and wrapping them for the autoclave. Metal cans with rubber NG tubes for patients who would not eat, ECT without anything except anectine, spine to navel incisions for kidney ops, And oh, yeah, smoking and charting in the nurses station. Caps, whites, straight seams, polished shoes... Once, I had no decent white nylons, wore tan and my supervisor said, "Oh, look. We have a waitress working today."

We had an older female patient who did her own colostomy care prior to coming to LTC. She used MOM on the skin under the wafer, and also dotted some on the wafer itself prior to sticking it on the skin. She said, it helped keep the skin in good shape. I have tried this with good results on some difficult sites.

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Am I the only one who remembers scultetus binders and breast binders with their multiple tails and safety pins?

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What is clysis? Hypodermoclysis: The injection of fluids (usually NS) into the subcutaneous tissues to supply the body with liquids. I've given it in the thighs; have seen it given in the back. Back in the day there was a specific tubing set-up with two ports designed for the purpose. Haven't seen one of them for years.

Oh wow, I head about this one over the weekend.

A woman told me that she had gone to a medical care at sea class for people cruising long distance on sail boats. and they had learned how to give shots to rehydrate people. I told her you couldnt learn to do an IV in a 1 day class (I am a 2nd yr nursing student and as a soldier 20 years ago I went to a combat lifesaver course where we were taught how to give IV's of saline solution to treat blood loss and heat stroke) when she told me it was just a "shot, under the skin to rehydrate the person, not an IV" I laughed and said not possible. she was insistent and I dropped it. some people you cant argue with.

Well....I quess I looked stupid. Is this actually taught to laypersons today? does it have medical validity? How would you get the syringe and needle in your first aid kit on a boat without a scrip? what about getting in trouble for having the needle in certain countries it isnt allowed?

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Oh wow, I head about this one over the weekend.

A woman told me that she had gone to a medical care at sea class for people cruising long distance on sail boats. and they had learned how to give shots to rehydrate people. I told her you couldnt learn to do an IV in a 1 day class (I am a 2nd yr nursing student and as a soldier 20 years ago I went to a combat lifesaver course where we were taught how to give IV's of saline solution to treat blood loss and heat stroke) when she told me it was just a "shot, under the skin to rehydrate the person, not an IV" I laughed and said not possible. she was insistent and I dropped it. some people you cant argue with.

Well....I quess I looked stupid. Is this actually taught to laypersons today? does it have medical validity? How would you get the syringe and needle in your first aid kit on a boat without a scrip? what about getting in trouble for having the needle in certain countries it isnt allowed?

My vet taught me how to do this for a dehydrated cat, not difficult at all. I was shocked however, when the medical director of the nursing home I worked at in Maine started talking about using this technique.

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Oh, Yeah, I hated the boards and the pencil and paper...and the way those proctors would scream out how much time you had left and when to put your pencil down. THEN, we had to wait for 6-8 weeks for the results! Now it's pretty fast, huh? Lucky nurses these days who get results fast!!

Got my results in 2 days!!! 6-8 wks....UGH!! My m-i-l is a retired RN. She took the paper and pencil boards.

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We still do paper charting. not all places do it by computer. And my 2 jobs have a lot of paper work related to care plans...I think JCAHO is requiring a lot more paperwork...ugh.

All our charting is computerized (even med administration)..I love it!!

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Specializes in Women's health & post-partum.
Am I the only one who remembers scultetus binders and breast binders with their multiple tails and safety pins?

Nope.

I got quite good at applying breast binders. (The secret seems to be in compressing the nipples.) Wasn't so good with Scultetus binders, maybe because we didn't use them much on OB. If ever.

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