I attended a seminar yesterday about how to read an ECG result. I learned a lot from it. We learned that there are a lot of many heart conditions and most of them are life threatening. We all should pray for a strong heart. When you are suffering from heart diseases already you need to pray and be positive. Recovery comes faster for those with faith. Religious people may recover faster from heart attack. Going to church is good medicine, according to a small study. People who had had a heart attack and who most often attended services, prayed, and participated in church activities had the most confidence and made the greatest strides during rehabilitation, say researchers. The study tracked Christians.
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Pray for a stronger heart
Friday, January 30th, 2009MICU orientation schedule
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009I learn today that our hospital MICU orientation will be in two weeks. I thought it would be sooner. I think I am just excited. It is okay though I still have time to study and review some nursing procedures and common diseases in the Medicine ICU. At the same time I can do the things I needed to do because I know when I start the training I only have limited time. For now, I list all the things that need to be done.
What if patient becomes unresponsive?
Monday, January 26th, 2009This must be hard for a newbie ICU nurse like me. I ask this question so that I will be prepared to know what should I do when my patient becomes unresponsive. Nursing process should always be utilized. What should be done first? First thing that needed to be done is assessment. The thing to focus on here is pretty simple- keep in mind the basic question: “What’s wrong with my patient?”. The goal as a new ICU nurse is to try to figure out what the patient is doing- but when the patient does something happened unexpected, there is just no substitute for experience. So go get some help: get the resource nurse, and get the team. This points up the most basic principle of ICU nursing: it is a group process. As a new nurse, we should know where we stand, what are our roles and most of all always communicate what is happening to the patients with the resource nurse.
Excited for MICU training
Sunday, January 25th, 2009In the next two weeks my training in MICU (Medicine Intensive care unit). I am very excited and at the same time kind of nervous as to what to do. This will be my first exposure to that unit. I know this is one of the busiest and toxic nursing units in the hospital. I am very excited to learn and to care for sick patients. I know in the beginning I need to observe, learn and familiarize things. At first, I think I will feel like it seems as though there is an endless stream of emergent situations that crop up in the unit, may be sometimes it clearly in response to some prior event, sometimes all by themselves, and they can be genuinely terrifying. Experienced ICU nurses may be a lot more nervous than a newbie trainee nurse simply because they know what to be afraid of. A key rule of ICU: any patients is capable of doing anything at any time. I know where to put myself though. When there will be cases that needs an experience then I need to call the experienced ICU nurse and I need to back up myself and let them do what is needed to be done. I can help them handing the things they needed. In that case, I should be a keen observer so if that case will happen again I know what to do. It is good to know that later on in my training I will improve and function or do what the unit staff do. I cannot wait for that time.
How to read ECG in seconds
Saturday, January 24th, 2009My sister who is also a nurse told me that there will be a seminar to be held on January 29, 2009 on Reading ECG in seconds and ABG interpretation. I am so glad to know it because, I really wanted to be really good at reading ECGs. I am very much curious about this seminar because of the how can someone read an ECG in just seconds. I cant wait to attend. I am familiar though about how to interpret ABG (arterial blood gas) but it is always good to have a review and another technique of interpreting it easier. The registration is very cheap so I am sure there will be a lot of nurses will attend.
A huge Uterine myoma
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008I work in a Lying in Maternity center for 3 months. I stopped working because of my other plans. Though I am not already connected with that institution, I make myself available to them when they need help. Today I was called for they need help in delivering a suspected twins. When I arrived in the clinic, the first baby was already out. The patients abdomen is still very big, and when we palpate it, it felt like there was another baby inside the womb. I did and IE (Internal examination) the cervix is 5cm open, but I could not feel baby’s head or any body parts because it was still very high up. I checked the FHT (fetal heart tones) with a doppler but I could not hear anything. I was confused then and worried because if there was still another baby inside, it must be dead already. So we decided to call our back physician. She brought with her an ultrasound. To our surprise, what was in her womb was not a baby, it’s a huge myoma (a growth in the uterus). God is so good to her for it did not obstruct the baby or choke the baby. She was on medication and on under observation for 3 months and will evaluated if she needs surgery.
Baby your back
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Most of us experiences back pains. It is not fun to have them. Delivering babies sometimes made my back hurts. So we need to baby our back and give them a break.
If you’re a working adult, the odds are fifty-fifty that you’ll suffer back trouble. To help you avoid this wrenching experience, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine recommends the following back-saving strategies on the job:
• Alternate between sitting and standing. When sitting, rest your feet flat on the floor, and use a chair with good back support. When standing for prolonged periods, rest one foot on a low stool.
• As you lift heavy objects, hold them close to your chest; bend your knees, not your back; and reposition our entire body rather than twisting or reaching as you lift.
• Split heavy loads into smaller loads, and get help when an object is too heavy or awkward to lift by yourself.
• To help protect your back overnight – or whenever you lie down – use a firm mattress, and lie on your back or side, not on your stomach.
• When driving, adjust the seat to keep your knees level with your hips, sit up straight with both hands on the wheel, and use a lumbar support for your lower back. Keep vehicles in good repair to minimize vibration. Take frequent rest breaks to change position and stretch.