Wednesday my patient was very low maintenance. He had back surgery the day before, and was getting discharged in the afternoon. He was very friendly and talkative, and I got to do a fair amount of patient education. We also talked about Chicago baseball, and he acknowledged the chance that we may run into each other at a game sometime. Nice guy.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
On Tuesday I got to help a Neurosurgery ICU nurse as she cared for a man recovering from brain surgery. He was stable, but required a lot of care and constant monitoring. The most important thing I learned is that a good ICU nurse has to be very attentive and organized. The RN was frustrated at the mess and tangle that had accumulated over multiple shifts, so we spent the first hour cleaning up the room and straightening up all of the tubes and wires. It made everything we did later on a lot easier.
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Hi Matt,
I'm a college friend of Jenny Offen. She sent me a link to your blog in the first week of your program when she was featured wiping :) I finished nursing school last July and I'm now working at Rush. I REALLY love your humor and your blog, I've sent it to a number of my nursing school friends who also love it, and I decided I finally had to introduce myself when last week I mentioned your blog in my graduate course. Now that I've thoroughly dorked myself out here, I hope we can meet someday. Good luck with school!!
Julie
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