Friday, September 14, 2007
Another quality, fun-filled, pooptastic day at work!
Seriously, if it isn't a wedding blog these days, it's going to be a hospital blog.
Build your bridge and get over it.
This work week's learning points were:
Build your bridge and get over it.
This work week's learning points were:
- I am, despite my fascination with medicine and most things body-related, horrified by the sound and implication of the word "intravaginally". When I read that as a nurse, it means I'm headed there. Damnit.
- Moral: Sure does make "corporate" have a nice ring again.
- A patient, suffering from oral thrush (a yeast infection in the mouth.. don't ask), offered up that a quick cure would be to put urine in her mouth. Say huh? Yes, she insisted. In the deep south where she grew up, her grandmomma said that when the baby has thrush, rub some of its wet diaper in his mouth and it will cure the thrush. *pause* I advised her (with every fiber of my being trying not to judge her with my facial expression) that I didn't think the doctor will write an order for urine. I read a lot in nursing school. I never came across that one.
- Moral: If it involves urine in a functional use, it isn't a good idea. In fact, it's just plain gross.
- My patient's call light goes on. I go in. She says: "I think I had a bowel movement. My thought bubble says: "Do you not know? How can you be unsure about this?" After inspection, I learn that she thought right. I finish cleaning her up and am applying some cream to her backside when she spontaneously poops again -- on my gloved hand. I say aloud: "You just had another bowel movement." She says in a surprised voice: "I thought I felt something."
- Moral: Thinking really is believing.
# posted by Cathy @ 4:23:00 PM 
