This morning after I finished my class I went down to the ER just to see what was going on. Communication is starting to get a bit better and I managed to get the point across that I needed to look at/in the ambulances. When I went out to the first ambulance I was pleasantly surprised to find a nearly full oxygen cylander, a working portable suction unit and a fully functional transport monitor complete with EKG cable and and SPO2 monitor, score!!!
Nobody seemed to know what the oxygen tank was or what to do with it so I'm assuming that is how it remains full. I found a few electrodes for the EKG monitor and we tested it out on John, the driver, who had never before seen an EKG. It was like Christmas for all of us! We couldn't stop smiling and laughing all over a simple EKG tracing. I must have spent about an hour in the back of just one of the rigs showing John and Dr. Bora how to turn off and on the O2 tank and what to do with all of the other exciting finds of the day.
The next time the rig goes out when I'm not teaching, I'm supposed to tag along. I guess I'm teaching an ambulance class at the end of the week.
Melba is having a good time with her quality improvement group and Lisa taught a clas about heart failure to the doctors today. Dorothy's got the backboard strap situation almost completely covered. We've been keeping busy here, I just wish there more hours to the day.
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Well, you've probably had more ambulance experience than most nurses, so it sounds like all that practice will come in handy in teaching the ambulance class. All those wonderful memories of weird and crazy calls will come flooding back...
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