Saturday, 18 July 2009

There must be some way outa here said the joker to the thief theres too much confusion I cant get no relief

Well the pneumonias turned out to be swine flu probably. One is on ecmo at another hospital, i dont think they do ecmo here. Another ventilated. We are barrier nursing in the ward. The response from on high seems to be mainly about coughing and handwashing no real guidance they are still discussing the response. If i were a pregant woman with a flu I'd be on the anti virals quick. They had an article from the CDC that said there were issues with pregnant woman so this should have been seen coming but there is such a disconnect between the sayers and the doers in the system.
eg funny story from my husbands work nursing home one RN on shift 120 patients and a few carers. They loaded all patient documents onto computer so you pick which one. There are over a hundred documents with no index and some very odd descriptions of what they are. Why so many because instead of rationalising the documents of different facilities they put the lot of them on. The office people thought that was a good idea.
The design of our paperwork is terrible the patients history is a three page list you have to seach thru for info no one has time to read or find stuff now. To be fair there are some good things we can print off name stickers on the ward and the docs can generate a path form at any terminal. Pity they cant sign meds orders from any terminal but I wonder if thats a good thing they would probably never come near the ward. I bought some shares in a medical tech company but when i realised what a mess it is I got rid of them, we had a occ therapist training us bit of a joke. The designated expert users are a good laugh.
The stock market game is starting soon my husband is playing too I hope he is good at trading.
The patients are interesting we had a intelligent lady from Lybia so we had a good chat about Islam and woman. I would like to go to that area of Africa she said it is very beautiful. We have some interesting people from all over the world as we are near the uni.
Better do some gardening while its warm.

1 comment:

Bone_collector said...

glad that you are feeling better...
ah...yes..the flu pandemic caught everybody by surprise..and reveal a graping hole in our healthcare system....
anyway, spring is almost here so threat is dying down..hoepfully stays that way!!