Yeah, I made it to Boston. I had gone down to Argos on New Oxford, a store where you go in and look up your items in a catalog, enter the item number in a machine to see if it is on stock, pay for it, then have it brought out to you. So basically, you do not see the item until after paid for. To return the item, it has to be unused and in the original packaging. So anyway, I was needing a piece of luggage as the one I came with was broken. Long story short, the phrase you get what you paid for was resonating in my head the following day when I rolled my new piece of luggage to the Russell Square tube station as one of the wheels fell apart!! Basically, I drug that piece of luggage from London to Boston!! anyway.......
It is so good to be here. I checked into the Bulfinch Hotel here in Boston, and Kate and Leslie joined me. We ordered out pizza, pasta, supplied our own wine, and watched the academies. I did not make it to the end, though, and it is now 6am and I found out the final results online. I loved the movie, Slumdog. In my opinion, this years movies were all quite good.
I am going to Portland tomorrow, and I so look forward to seeing everyone!! Cheers!!
Monday, February 23, 2009
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February 21, 2009
Yeah!!! Tomorrow I am flying to Boston and will stop over and watch the Oscars with Kate and Leslie!!!! Yeah!!!! Dow will come in on Monday, and we will both fly back to Portland on Tuesday!! Yeah!!
I just worked three long days on the unit. After doing a large work book first, I had a training moment on the PCA system, then I will have a test. One of the charge nurses just failed the test. Ok. PCAs are not through an IV site, but rather, through the subcutaneous route that I referred to earlier, usually in the upper arm.
Patients who are going for procedures such as a ct or xray are sent down in their bed with a porter and a nurse, along with an emergency bag with an ambu bag in it. When patients go to surgery, the nurse goes down with them and into the pre-surgical area. Then when they are ready to leave recovery, the nurse goes back down with the emergency bag, gets report from the recovery nurse, and brings them back up on the floor with the porter.
One clarification about the MRSA situation. Patients are nasally swabbed on admit and a week later in their nose. The patients who were negative initially, then positive later had it in their nose. Not in wounds.
I have seen several frontal/temporal lobectomies.
The weather in London today was fantastic. The sidewalks were crammed with people on the shopping streets. I am starting to look forward to more nice days.
I will see a lot of you in Portland. Cheers until then.
p.s. the elevator in my dorm will be out of order for 14 weeks!!! Let's just hope the plumbing does not go out next!
I just worked three long days on the unit. After doing a large work book first, I had a training moment on the PCA system, then I will have a test. One of the charge nurses just failed the test. Ok. PCAs are not through an IV site, but rather, through the subcutaneous route that I referred to earlier, usually in the upper arm.
Patients who are going for procedures such as a ct or xray are sent down in their bed with a porter and a nurse, along with an emergency bag with an ambu bag in it. When patients go to surgery, the nurse goes down with them and into the pre-surgical area. Then when they are ready to leave recovery, the nurse goes back down with the emergency bag, gets report from the recovery nurse, and brings them back up on the floor with the porter.
One clarification about the MRSA situation. Patients are nasally swabbed on admit and a week later in their nose. The patients who were negative initially, then positive later had it in their nose. Not in wounds.
I have seen several frontal/temporal lobectomies.
The weather in London today was fantastic. The sidewalks were crammed with people on the shopping streets. I am starting to look forward to more nice days.
I will see a lot of you in Portland. Cheers until then.
p.s. the elevator in my dorm will be out of order for 14 weeks!!! Let's just hope the plumbing does not go out next!
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