Hospital slut
I picked up a couple of evening shifts this week - the first long days I've done during the week this quarter! Going back to ortho was fun but dealing with adults again was hard! Handed over to me was awful stuff like blood transfusions... congestive heart failure.... liver failure... acute on chronic renal failure... I couldn't even remember how much lactulose to chart! Then I couldn't just figure out the dose of paracetamol by going 15mg/kg/dose... ARGH~ what's happened to my simple little kiddies with bronchiolitis!?!?!?Then I came across a needle phobic adult. Unfortunately on the adult wards you can't get a play therapist to come in and blow bubbles while the parents and nurses pin the patient down while he/she scrams in fear. One thing was the same though - the nurse had covered her in emla cream!! Anyway, In my true do-as-little-as-possible-when-on-call style, I just sited the expired luer and said it could stay in for another 24 hours.
posted by SpongeMike @ 12:38
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