Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Find the mistakes in this picture



There are several mistakes in this picture. I found 7 of them. Use your assessment and observational skills to see if you can find them, too.

The mistakes I found, not necessarily in order of importance, are the following:

1. The nurse is not wearing gloves. Every good nurse knows that you should wear gloves when administrating IV medications. Just remember to take them off before you use the computer keyboard.

2. The IV tubing has fallen on the floor -- this opens the door for infection from those nasty little microbes that keep the ID doctors in practice.

3. This is a bag of Normal Saline -- the doctor specifically ordered D5NS, or something with a "D", a slanted squiggle and an "S" or a "5" in it.

4. This is the wrong tubing. It won't fit the new "wonderpump".

5. She's lost her patient. He took off running when he saw the IV needle, even though he has a Harley Davidson tattoo on his left arm and one that says "Bad to the Bone" on the other.

6. The nurse has on green shoes -- completely out of uniform, and besides, they don't match her lovely surgical scrub mu mu.

7. She answered her phone when the supervisor called to ask her to come in and help out on her night off. Now she is tripled up with 2 vents -- both on contact precautions, and a geri-psych who has sundowners and no Haldol on his med profile.

Let me know if you find more mistakes than these.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Thank God for Vacations!



Just got back from Cancun -- actually Playa del Carmen. What a paradise!! Can't upload my pictures here -- not sure why -- but this is a pretty good idea of the view I had for 11 glorious days . . . minus the fellow beach potatoes and all . . .

There were excursions to Cozumel for a couple of dives, Tulum, (went to Chicken Pizza and Coba last year), deep sea fishing, diving with the hotel dive shop (Dressel Diver's -- best guides around), Dos Ojos Cenote for another dive, Akumal, Playa del Carmen proper, including several hundred local shops, Captain Ron and Sharkeys, Senor Frog's, The Oasis and The Blue Parrot, (among other local establishments).

However, I did manage to get enough sun that my SO (who did not go along) said that if I had come back any more tan I would have needed a Green Card to get back into the States. He can be so darn cute sometimes.

Very relaxing trip. Needed that. Can't say enough good things about the hotel: Iberostar Quetzal in Playacar. Son muy simpaticos. It's nice to see the same faces every year. Makes it seem like you're visiting old friends. They even remember you from year to year. Hmmm . . . I wonder if that says more about them or about us.

My group starts planning for the trip in July each year. It's nice to have something to look forward to. I've already started saving for 2008 . . . only 11 1/2 more months to go!!