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I worked in a hospital for a while.
I had to full drape & mask a few times and go in and feed sick patients.
One time as I was doing so, the old man hurled all over me...glad I was draped !
One thing I still do not understand is the implatation of anything into the body (most especially something so deep & close to the pericardium) with NO antibiotic sent home !
In surgery, we always prescribed a profilactic antibiotic with oral surgery especially as the very staph can enter the blood stream and guess where it goes ?
Straight to the pericardium & the heart is infected.
DH has a SS plate in his foot, for 10 years now, and still, he gets a profilactic antibiotic before dental work due to possible staph infections.
Antibiotics are sometimes misused and over prescribed, but in the case of implantation, and deep invasive surgery, I think the ounce of prevention is worth many millions of pounds of cure, and in this case, possible death.
How is your classes going ?
Was it a same-day surgery or was she at the hospital awhile? Could they have given her antibiotics via an IV or other route while she was in the hospital? They do have some antibiotics that stay in the body for awhile now. I am sorry your mother in law is having problems. Stable is a good thing. I'm assuming since she's still intubated and has an NG tube she is still in ICU? The nice thing is in ICU there is a much lower pt ratio- in the hospital I am doing clinical in each ICU nurse has one to two patients at any given time.
I love being a student nurse so far,.
I loved doing it when I did, but have retired.
I believe MiL Had a day surgery, recovery a few hours & sent home.
I am not sure.
Maybe an over night recovery for observation?
Everyone is at the hospital so no one to ask questions to~
I had a friend a few years back, RN who had anesthesia training & surgical, and she would travel with a company that had many many sites around the country needed stand in nurses.
She loved it!
Fantastic pay!
Outrageous benies!
They paid her hotel & meals & provided a car..and she would pick places where she wanted to work & then would stay home or go on vacation a few weeks.
She would work in New Orleans a few months, then fly home a week, then fly to New York and work a few months, then fly to Hawaii for a 2 week vacation...LOTS of frequent flyer miles!!!
Then off to Tuscon for a few months..and so on.
What a cool job!
Yes she was single, and had 2 grown children, she was having a blast and making way more than any hospital RN does, about 2X the pay.
I do show and I do cull for temperament, too. My rooster comes up and eats from my hand and will let me pet him. He doesn't like being picked up, but most of the girls will let me.
