Thursday, November 6, 2008

Today, We Killed Our Patient.

Notice how I am not taking full responsibility for this one. I said WE. Me and a team of 9 other monkeys. Although, some of us may shoulder more of the blame. (That one, I said US).

Don't worry guys. It was a mannequin. But we "killed" it none the less.

I won't go into details of how we crushed a timed released morphine sulfate and gave the dose via a nasogastric tube and then the patient's heart rate dropped and dropped and dropped. Because we learned something today.

I WILL NEVER, EVER, EVER CRUSH MS CONTIN. E-V-E-R. And I will ALWAYS (and forever amen) check the list of drugs that cannot be crushed.

that's all.

3 comments:

Cheri (aka "The Mom Lady") said...

Wow! I always said I could kill silk plants and now you've killed a fake person.

I'm not going crazy afterall...but at least you know what you did and I don't.

So you're ahead of me. But one thing I know for sure, I did not EVER crush any meds to give to my silk plants! More likely congestive dust clogging of fake arteries...

Mommy said...

Do you watch Grey's Anatomy? Because now I will think of you and your plastic patient when I watch it again!
So sorry that you lost your plastic patient...
And its GOOD to read from you again!

Joe and Lauren said...

You need to post something new...