But having patient input in developing a rehab hospital, really is a good thing. One large rehab hospital in Nebraska is actually using a design firm headed by a quadriplegic designer most of you know if you shop at a very large retailer.
Yes, it is really important. So when Madison opens its satellite unit at Washington, our chief NP, a rehab nurse from way back, was duly insulted when she heard this.
"Well, we will just ask a few people to pretend to be a para or a quad and check out stuff in the patient rooms." (I wish this paraphrase was a joke, but it's not).
No, not okay, says the NP. So she makes a few phone calls, and lo and behold, we have several former and current patients volunteering to do a dry run before the unit opens.
Maybe the Manglement will really get this patient engagement thing involves REAL patients, not pretend ones.
You never know...stay tuned!
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Friday, January 31, 2014
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Itchy and scratchy
I love it when I wake up with eyes like this! I just tried out a sample of this new product, so I'm not sure if it's that or just the pollen outside. I really like the results so far, I must say!
Work was fun once the week ended. Thankfully, I'll have some extra off time this week to do paperwork for school. Ah, I really missed filling out forms. Thankfully, the SuperDuper U staff sent everyone a welcome letter with links to everything you need to do before the semester starts. It should be fun checking off everything I can this week.
I read this post at head-nurse and immediately thought of my unit. Ah, summer is always interesting when you have spinal cord patients around. It never fails...the quads are too cold, the paras are too hot. Occasionally, we get a quad, like one we have now, who's a combo (gets both hot and cold), but with all the isolation rooms we have and the nylon gowns we use, I never feel like my deodorant lasts the entire shift.
Needless to say, more than a few staff wanted to strangle the maintenance guys when they said they'd turn off the AC in the early afternoon for a repair, leave it off all night and maybe turn it back on in the morning. Maybe never came. Their boss came over and told our boss that the AC would come back on in two hours, tops. Happily, no one got hot under the collar!
Gotta run...more stuff to do...stay tuned.
Work was fun once the week ended. Thankfully, I'll have some extra off time this week to do paperwork for school. Ah, I really missed filling out forms. Thankfully, the SuperDuper U staff sent everyone a welcome letter with links to everything you need to do before the semester starts. It should be fun checking off everything I can this week.
I read this post at head-nurse and immediately thought of my unit. Ah, summer is always interesting when you have spinal cord patients around. It never fails...the quads are too cold, the paras are too hot. Occasionally, we get a quad, like one we have now, who's a combo (gets both hot and cold), but with all the isolation rooms we have and the nylon gowns we use, I never feel like my deodorant lasts the entire shift.
Needless to say, more than a few staff wanted to strangle the maintenance guys when they said they'd turn off the AC in the early afternoon for a repair, leave it off all night and maybe turn it back on in the morning. Maybe never came. Their boss came over and told our boss that the AC would come back on in two hours, tops. Happily, no one got hot under the collar!
Gotta run...more stuff to do...stay tuned.
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