Tuesday, March 28, 2006

I started writing up this post yesterday but got a little distracted and never go around to posting it.
There has been a lot happening in work with a new patient they admitted last week.She has a medical condition and wasn't stable on her meds so i've been having to call the woman on call out at night to help me with her.which i hate to do since i know they have to work the next day.Also,they employed this new member of staff 3 weeks ago.I'll call her loopy because im sure she is.When i went in last night she said she'd given this patient more medications because the patient said she was sick and that she'd vomited the others in the bathroom.I said to her you can't do that.This woman is on very strong medication and its easy to overdose on it and once you've signed out for the meds you need to get a doctors permission to give out more.The patient is in there because of a problem with drinking and over the counter pain killers.She always says she's been sick to try and get extra meds.So then i was worried all night in case she slipped into a coma or something.

Comments:
June: You have one of the toughest jobs I know of. It's good to catch up with you. BTW: I saw your post below over at Romasanta's place. Very cool! Have a beautiful weekend!
 
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