Sharing Medical costs with Strangers, Sort of. It is so true that people use the ER for primary Care because they either a) have no insurance or b) are under insured. Health care costs are sky rocketing. I think that this idea of a faith based sharing plan is an interesting one. Read it and …
Nursing Care Plans
This week we are working on our first nursing care plan. A nursing care plan consists of Assessment subjective (what the patient says) objective – physical assessment of patient Nursing Diagnosis These provide a basis for selection of nursing interventions. Example: “acute pain related to (r/t) pressure on spinal nerves as evidenced by pt oral …
Almost half way through…
Today was my check off for changing a Cental line dressing with Cardiac assessment and Male and Female Foley catheter insertion with Abdominal assessment. I did fine on the two I did. It was a coin flip to which I had to do. I ended up with Female Foley Catheter instead of central line dressing. …
Booted from Lab –oops!
Went into the lab today with Ria to practice for the check offs tomorrow. It will either be Central Venous Catheter Dressing change (with Cardiac assessment) or Female Catherization with abdominal assessment. (We get to flip a coin to see what we have to do so need to be prepared for both.) I got booted …
Today in lab.
Today I was able to get three check off’s done. One Major (NT suctioning/ Trach care) and two learning assistant check offs (Administering Eye/Ear drops and Rectal/Vaginal suppositories and transferring a patient with a lift.) I was not nervous today about the check off. For the major check off you only had to do one …
Lab time today
Did some Lab time with Ria today. She’s so funny. She’s very real. She doesn’t give a shit what people think of her. We practiced the NT suctioning and the trach care with trach suctioning. She went over Ear drop/ Eye drops/ anal and vaginal suppositories. I think we actually have to jam a suppository …
First Check off.
Today was a bit of a tough day. I spent 3 hours in the nursing lab yesterday (Sunday) preparing for this wound dressing change. It was a wet to dry packed wound dressing change -a sterile procedure. I went over and over the procedure and the critical elements. We have a little acronym to help …
Keeping a Sterile Field
I had always thought that not touching something that is sterile keeps it sterile. Apparently even placing your hand or arm above a sterile field (unless your sterile) contaminates the field. I never knew that. I found this out when practicing packing a wound in class yesterday. I found some info to back this up. …
Day three – lab orientation
Today was lab orientation. We went over the entire lab manuel and got loads more information thrown at us. My brain is on serious overload right now. We were introduced to the labs today. There are several “patient rooms” that are set up like old wards with 4 patients to a room. One had a …
Second Day –Orientation Day 2
Today was less overwhelming than yesterday. I brought my own computer today and actually used it instead of the school laptops. And that worked out really well. We spent most of the morning on learned how to use the online library of my college. The showed us how to access the books, E books, data …