What does P&N think about.....

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: umbrella39

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

I'll be done with nursing school in 2 more semesters....woohoo for my bachelors! And I work as a 'student nurse' but that is essentially a full time/parttime position not in anyway related to my school. hehe I hate suctioning sometimes, we had a recent trach patient come back to the hospital with pnemonia from not taking care of his trach site, between my other crazy patient issues today, me, the nurse or the RRT had to deep suction this dude every 30mins-hour because he was making that much junk. Not to mention his roommate lost about 3-4units of blood in the course of my 12 hour shift. Gotta love Detroit Receiving!

Oh pseudomonas is my friend Every couple of weeks there seems to be at least one patient (usually a man for some odd reason) who likes to stick their dirty fingers over their trach so they can talk. You try and explain to them that is only going to introduce a world of bacteria into their lungs but they never listen until the green ooze is pouring out onto their chest. As long as it is not a TB patient, I can live with mucus There is nothing worse than dealing with a patient for a few day before someone finally realizes they have TB.[/quote]

No offense to Annapolis or other hospitals but lately we seem to be getting patients recently discharged from other hospitals who didnt rule out TB despite the patient coughing up black gunk/blood then they come to us cuz they are still coughing up the said material and the antibiotics they were given do NOTHING for TB....at Receiving if someone is even slightly suspected for TB in anyway, it's instant isolation until we have 3 negative sputums in 72hours