Tuesday, 9 October 2007
Woopsies
I had a "learning experience" at prac last week (which I forgot to blog, woops!). Steve and I were doing a joint treatment of a guy who needed 'birding'. We took the machine in and began to set it up with the portable oxygen cylinder. We detached the oxygen flow meter from the bottle, with the intention of attaching the bird machine, but before we got that far there was a hurrendously loud squealing/rushing of air as oxygen began to pour from the cylinder. As you can imagine, this was fairly comical in hindsight, but at the time we both packed ourselves! Clearly we had overlooked the small matter of turning off the cylinder valve before taking off the flow meter - OOPS! This was an error that I'm sure only students could make, and I'm sure it is one we will never make again! What I learnt from this scenario? MAKE SURE YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THE EQUIPMENT BEFORE YOU ENTER THE TREATMENT SESSION! This will save a lot of embarrassment and looking stupid in front of nursing staff...! Please take this on board :)
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hey dani, i think that will happen a lot to us this year and in the years to come. On my rural prac we had communal US ans interferential machines when someone had the one that was the same as we practiced on at uni i had to quickly ask "how do i work this one" before taking it into the room!
We should never be embarrassed to ask, we're still learning and most people are happy to help.
Must have been funny to watch though...
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