backie....don't families rent out rooms with lil'signs? [ sorta like
a breakfast & bed outfit?] . maybe if you know someone locally,
they could recomend one? they were my favorites place to stay
in germany, but that was in the 1970's. gosh, i 'm old,
,
anyone have an extra cane?
well, i feel like beating my chest! going to brag a little! i have
always heard.....from my old nurse mentors, patients can survive
bad doctors but not bad nurses. yesterday , i proved them right.
if i hadn't held to " to my guns!", a sweet lil' old man would not be
alive today. [lately, they are abusing our staff liked crazy...we are
taking care of everything you can imagined. think about this...,
doing blood gasses, stat blood work, medical treatments on a psych
ward.....
, fyi these things are not even done on a medical
unit but icu, hint~hint! ]
this little guy was dropped off by his wife , who could no longer
take care of him. no wonder! he was 2 steps away from dying,
but all the doctors that saw him, ignored un-believable signs/
symptoms. worst, the drs. tried to "show" me up, but i refused to budge.
& that literally, saved his life. first he had a positive d-diamond test,
indicating pul. emboli., just to begin with. then i used my old icu
knowledge, [ pretty rusty-haven't been there in years], to crammed
it down their throats!]
though other admission nurses, nursing supervisor tried to get the dr.
to changed his mind,.., oh, he ok to go !". this is where i took over.
.....how does a dr. tried to show up a nurse? iam sure baby-n. already
knows. but for the lay person...no breath sounds in his lower lobes,
, ....the dr. listened, then he went & requested every
other dr./rn to do the same[ medical nurses] . why? to find someone
to dispute my report. [ i had an old cheapo stretscope & they had their
fancy ones. ] .see? this is a common ploy.
i didn't budge...i know reality! so you think he stop? noooooooo! look
dan, dos he looks like he is in moderate distress? he's just confuse
& anxiety ridden? no doc, [ got to be respectful though he 's full of
crap], ....you see, his po2 is only 89, and he has never been a smoker!
so if this was anxiety, then po2 would be high! yes, he sitting there
quietly and not complaining. this is where i relied on my psych knowledge
to show why!
. 10 days earlier, "doc", he had purple
feet. noticed? they documented he denied any pain? how can that be?
[ think how cold,poor circ. feet would hurt] ...when i spoke with him,
he was upset,of being admitted, anywhere, [ his wife was worry because
he was sitting all night in the car-to drive home & go to bed.] this was
critical data, and i used it, he was begging me to call his wife to come
& get him....he wasn't confuse, but very, very sick. [ medical]. why
do you think, he would not tell them the truth.....anything he thought
that would get him admitted, he would never admitt to. so when
the doctors asked why?, i pointed his purple feet out....i crammed this idea
down their throats! plus, did any of you ask him to take off his shirt?
let's see.....you think his breathing in the 30's, & using "all his "
intercostal muscles means something?
and still they did all the icu stuff on our unit....then the results came back!
blood gasses, po2 60's [ should be near 98-100]. low,low, hgb. needless to
say, he was near critical & still was able to fake all of us out. * if he
could, he would have went home, to bed . and never awaken.
oh, don't think, nurses who stand up & make sure the right things are
down ..are rewarded. nope, instead they are abused. but i rather be
in that group than the others. fyi, a couple years ago, i was in an
investigation....and this is what they told me....." we
heard you pick on doctors?". did i ever mentioned i do excellent
documentation? i made them "eat" every single word! and i am passing
on to the younger nurses how to do the same. why? because in
reality, our "work" are people well being. this lil guy, was the sweetest
man...you could tell, he had a wonderful family, life. he deserved
better then what he was getting. unless nurses "do"- stand up for
patients then the outcomes will not be those we desire.
lately, i been thinking about my life choice. being a nurse has been
one big pain after another. i was offered med school right after
earning my rn degree. but decided [ was early 20] , it didn't matched
what i wanted out of life. funny thing is, i don't think i would have
accomplished as much. and those nurses i first work with, gave me
so much. [ this is where my talents came from-gifts from those
nurses long go]. and while i be making money, not that much more..
nor the experiences, including taking care of spainish-american war
veterans..& the oldest person on earth[ mid 1980's--he was around
136 years/old...ahhh , good-old country living.]
thanks for letting me vent, now back to work.
I think he has better teachers this year too that he likes. They cleaned house over the summer and have a lot of new teachers in the school this year.
Now we have to set the gears in motion for Boris to get his braces. Hear that? That's the sound of my checkbook pleading for mercy. Heh.
