Room supplies

Bag 1 supplies: Nasal cannula, oxygen extension, tubing connector, Venti mask, and 100% NRB
Bag 2 Supplies: Yankeur Suction, Suction Catheter kit, suction tubing, 80 mm oral airway,
90 mm oral airway, & 100 cm oral airway

1. Above you see pictures of 2 bags that will be at hand at each patient's bedside.
2. If you open the supplies for a patient they are only to be used for that patient for the duration of their stay.
3. Housekeeping will be wiping off the bags if they are not opened but if the seal is opened then the bag "belongs" to that patient.
4. New supplies in a new bag will be replaced if the bag is opened for a prior patient.
5. I expect that the suction cannister if used will be replaced in the room other wise housekeeping is only wiping down the exterior surfaces of everything.
6. This is in an effort to decrease patient exposure especially given the volume of isolation patients we see on a daily basis.

Thanks for your help in keeping our patients safe.

Tracy

Question for you

Your diabetic patient is to receive Tenormin (Atenolol) this morning.
As her nurse you should assess which lab value:
a. Glucose
b. Potassium
c. Calcium
d. Magnesium

{courtesy of David Woodruff Med/Surg Certification Review}
Answers can be posted here or email.

We appreciate all you do!

The Lady With the Lamp National Nurses Week is always May 6-12, ending on Florence Nightingale's birthday. National Nurses Week is always May 6-12, ending on Florence Nightingale's birthday. By ADVANCE staff
Test your knowledge about the founder of modern day nursing with some of these lesser known facts:
Nightingale's father was a pioneer in epidemiology and tutored Florence in mathematics/statistics, an area she excelled in later in her career.
A gifted statistician in her own right, Nightingale was fond of using pie charts when presenting her statistics.
Among many studies, Nightingale did a statistical analysis of sanitation in India.
Nightingale was the first female to be elected to Royal Statistical Society.
Florence Nightingale defied her extremely wealthy family and upper class conventions in choosing to become a nurse in 1845.
Nightingale not only fought for better medical care, but also championed social issues such as reform of the British Poor Laws.
Nightingale's first published work was on a German Lutheran religious community in 1851.
Most famous for her care of soldiers during the Crimean War, Nightingale entered Turkey in 1854 with 38 nurses she personally trained.
In Nightingale's first winter at Scutari in the Crimea, the death toll rose with more than 4,077 soldiers dying.
Nightingale's first evidence-based practice research involved collecting evidence that poor living conditions were the cause of most soldier deaths during the Crimean War.
The Times of London is widely considered responsible for labeling Nightingale "the lady with the lamp."
The U.S. government consulted Nightingale on setting up military hospitals during the Civil War.
As a woman, Nightingale could not serve on the British Royal Commission on the Health of the Army even though she played a critical role in its formation.
What is now the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, part of King's College London, was established by her to train nurses in 1860.
Notes on Nursing also sold well as a popular book in the 1860s.
In 1867, poet Henry Longfellow's poem "Santa Filomena" further ensured Nightingale's image with the lines, "Lo! In that hour of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom."
In the 1870s, Nightingale trained Linda Richards, the first formally trained American nurse.
Nightingale died in 1910, but her family declined to have her buried in Westminster Abbey with kings, queens and other English nobility. She is buried in the churchyard at St. Margaret's Church, East Wellow, Hampshire, England.
Nightingale's maternal grandfather was the British abolitionist Will Smith.
Nightingale is named after her birthplace, Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Italy).
To read more about Florence Nightingale and her continuing influence on nurses, see this selection of editor's picks from the ADVANCE for Nurses archives:
Led by the LampThe Nightingale Initiative for Global Health has created the Nightingale Declaration, designed to bring health to the forefront of world consciousness.For Florence Dee Jones composes and performs a song about nursing's heroine.
Copyright ©2008 Merion Publications

Multi-Lead Medics 12 Lead ECG Interpetation Workshop

You will notice that on June 19th or 20th you are each scheduled for an 8 hour EKG class. This an interpretation class that will be from 7:30 until 4pm at Presque Isle Inn and Convention Center. Bob Page is the presenter and he is nationally known author on this topic. This should be an excellent presentation and I hope you all bring alot of information back to your practices.

I have placed one copy of the Seminar Workbook on each unit for you to peruse prior to the presentation if you wish but they will be passed out at each session, so don't feel like you have to copy it unless you really want to have a copy ahead of time.

Vilma and I sincerely hope that this is a beneficial conference for all of you.

Tracy