Yeah, Yeah, I know it’s Friday. However, this is clearly pertinent, timely, and will require a long sit down to get through this exhaustive article. Our grad-ass Chuckles has coffee and bagels against the back wall. Keep your hands and feet away from his teeth…he bites!
I also wanted to put this in its own post so that it can be easily referenced.
Enjoy!
I have noticed something over the years, there seems to be a strong correlation between large numbers of allergies and the likelihood that the patient has some mental health issues. This info is revealed during the triage process…I keep seeing it over and over again. Long list of allergies to meds and such, mental health issues and psych meds almost always are there too.
Interesting, I may have to do more research…maybe a chart audit for some raw data…
Enjoy this open
Today, I had 2 student nurses during my workday in the ER that I am assigned to for 6 weeks. The ER had a total of 6 of them from he local U. In my job description is education. I relish that role. some days the cases really get to impact the less experienced RNs and the students. It is, in fact, the most enjoyable part of my job.
So, today, a person showed up dizzy and fatigued without chest pain but did not ‘feel right’ in the chest. I had my students run an EKG and place the patient on the monitor. I purposely did not allow them to see the EKG read but instead made a non-read copy and asked them to figure out what was going on with this patient’s heart using calipers and their skills.
No one got it.
Their instructor is an ancient, bitter hag who hasn’t worked a floor in 25 years…a professional non-RN who teaches yet calls herself a nurse.
Since my students couldn’t do the measurement of the EKG properly to figure out the arrhythmia, I went unorthodox. I made redacted unread copies of the EKG for all of the students and collected them up in front of the big screen TV and had them watch this:
Yep, Wenckebach type II.
Then I showed them how to mark up the EKG with calipers so that each could have a copy of the measured arrhythmia.
Their instructor was flabbergasted, angry, and wanted my head, how dare I use a fun video to educate!…until cardiology showed up and stated that that video is hysterical, accurate, and used in medical schools everywhere.
Some assholes in my field enjoy giving pain and being bitches. It’s sad and counter-productive.
We Yinzers knew all of this already, but I might as well post it here:
Pittsburgh ranked second of all American cities , behind Honolulu, Hawaii, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Livability Index report.
The report ranks cities around the globe based on stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure.
Pittsburgh was named the 32nd most livable city in the world out of 140. The unit is the research and analysis division of The Economist Group and the world leader in global business intelligence.
Vienna, Austria replaces Melbourne, Australia as the most livable city in this year’s report.
Pittsburgh came in second-best of all the U.S. cities, behind Honolulu, Hawaii. The report ranks cities around the globe based on stability, health care, culture and environment, education and infrastructure. The highest ranked American cities include: Washington D.C., Minneapolis, Boston and Chicago.
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