SHE’S AT IT AGAIN!

Remember my last post about our CNO who I couldn’t stand? Well, she’s back to her old tricks. This time, with our unit staffing.
We had 8 patients yesterday. 6 of those were ventilated and the 2 non-vents were on Bipap.
Staffing for night shift is usually 4:8 (nurses:patients) but that depends on how sick our patients are. [...]

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THE WEEK THAT WAS

SUNDAY:     
I was in-charge of the unit with 8 patients. Unbelievably, out of the 8, 5 of them are flagged as Do Not Resuscitate (DNR)!
One of them already looked dead to me. And when I say dead, I mean literally DEAD! Gasping (although vented), cyanotic peripheries, you name it! But the cruel thing was, abdominal CAT [...]

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BLABBING WHILE WORKING

I really haven’t been so good in updating my blog during the recent weeks especially during the holiday season. Work and studying has been keeping me busy during these times. By next week, we’ll be starting our CRRT (Continous Renal Replacement Therapy) lecture and training. Honestly, I have not done any kind of reading for [...]

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AFTER THE HOLIDAYS

No vacant bed in MICU. SICU has 1 trauma bed and 1 code blue bed. CCU also full. 1 sick patient for admission to ICU.
That was the scene this morning when I came to work. My first DAY shift in 2007.
We had to triage our patients just to make bed. By the end of my 12-hour [...]

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JANUARY 1ST 2007!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!
I hope that this year will be fruitful and prosperous to each and everyone of us!
Let us all thank God for the blessing of life that he has given us the past year and may this year bring peace to all countries…
God bless all of us and again, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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