Sharing my pride

HK_User · Dec 14, 2019

RightHand said: ↑

Those are wise words HK and I will make sure I pass them along to her. At 21, she still thinks she is invincible. She is lucky that her boyfriend/best friend is graduating as a physical therapist. He's currently a massage therapist so she does get a little tender loving care for her physical well being. I need to convince him that her grandmother also need a good massage every now and then.It was funny that at our Thanksgiving dinner, Miss Hayley gave us all blood pressure checks, listened to our hearts and pulse. Young Mr. Tyler contributed shoulder massages. Both plying their trades on non-paying patients.

One thing that has surprised me is that they no longer teach nurses to draw blood. Evidently hospitals rely on either their own lab phlebotomists for contracted ones so nurses don't carry out those tasks. My daughter is a phlebotomist and is teaching Hayley to draw blood. She has graduated from the initial attempts using an orange to her family as test patients.
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Times change and as an EMT we did stcks on each other.
We also started saline and practiced in other ways as most of us went the advanced route.
Note, have her practice without the Steth for as I learned in a noisy foot ball stadium you need to palpate for pulse when you use a cuff for BP in the back of a unit or a noisy foot ball field.

By all means her greatest threat to a long career is a mis stick on an Aids patient.

RightHand · Dec 14, 2019

Good advice. I will make sure she hears about it.

Witch Doctor 01 · Dec 14, 2019

Congrats on a extensive support system to keep her dreams alive... It all started with you....

mysterymet · Dec 14, 2019

Nothing but love for nurses. Congrats to her on her graduation. Has she taken the state boards yet?

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