mr_hippo
Living Legend & Old Fart
^ That reminds me of a student nurse I worked with. I was the Staff Nurse on a geriatric ward on nights back in the bad old days when the night staff had to get the patients up and give them their breakfast before the day staff got in at 8am! The student asked me what they were having for breakfast so I told her "Boiled eggs"; next question was "How do you boil an egg?" She had been gone ages so I went to the kitchen to find out the delay. She had worked out that if one egg takes 3 minutes then 35 would take 105 minutes and, yes, all the eggs were in the same large pan!
I met the same student a few months later on a different ward but still on nights. We had a patient on a blood transfuion and the system we had on nights was - take the case notes to Cas, pick up the Path Lab key, get the correct blood from the Path Lab fridge, take it to Cas for the senior nurse there to check that it was the right one. So off she trots to the lab and comes back with the right blood; I told her to warm it before putting it up - just leave it in the ward for about 10-15 minutes to bring it up to room temp. She was a third year student and would take her finals in a few month's time but what did she do? Emptied into a milk pan and was warming it up on the ward stove!
Many years later, I found out that she was a Nurse Tutor in Scotland.
I met the same student a few months later on a different ward but still on nights. We had a patient on a blood transfuion and the system we had on nights was - take the case notes to Cas, pick up the Path Lab key, get the correct blood from the Path Lab fridge, take it to Cas for the senior nurse there to check that it was the right one. So off she trots to the lab and comes back with the right blood; I told her to warm it before putting it up - just leave it in the ward for about 10-15 minutes to bring it up to room temp. She was a third year student and would take her finals in a few month's time but what did she do? Emptied into a milk pan and was warming it up on the ward stove!
Many years later, I found out that she was a Nurse Tutor in Scotland.
