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Dirty Job

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

During my first week of work at the hospital, I had a very really yucky experience that I felt I’m gonna resign my work. Could you just imagine that I suctioned secretions on the endotracheal tube without a gloves? This is so eewww! The patient was positive for pneumonia and who knows he might just had tuberculosis or even pseudomonas infection.

Now, why didn’t I put on any gloves? Its because we don’t have gloves available in the ward in other words its out of stock. What I did was to use a cellphane instead of the gloves which creates so much mess. Nursing practice is a dangerous job. Noted incidents are transmission of a diseases through a needle prick and some nosocomial or hospital acquired infections. The best way to prevent this is through handwashing and use of protective barriers. 

 

 

Posted by marcopolo at 5:58 pm | permalink

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that’s why plenty of nurses left this country. the government is not spending much for healthcare.

Posted by novz at January 17, 2008, 9:51 pm

ewww…
i hope you used muriatic acid to wash those icky stuff away.. baka magkasakit ka nyan..
ma-sad kami tuloy.
:)

Posted by chase at January 17, 2008, 10:53 pm

na-add na pala kita sa blogroll ko.. thanks!

Posted by chase at January 17, 2008, 10:55 pm

That is the reason why bilib ako sa mga nurses at mga health workers :)

kaso bakit naman walang available na gloves?

Posted by Mica at January 18, 2008, 6:40 am

Thanks chase for the blogroll. We always do handwashing to protect our selves. :-)

Posted by marcopolo at January 18, 2008, 12:04 pm

wow! and i’m eating kutchinta while reading your blog!

Posted by Curbside Puppet at January 18, 2008, 3:23 pm

oi im sorry… hhee

Posted by marcopolo at January 18, 2008, 3:37 pm

ay ganun? anyways musta na?

Posted by dazedblu at January 18, 2008, 8:04 pm

hahaha… i remember when i was a medtech intern, we process the specimens without gloves… blood, pee and poops, sometimes even bacteriologic specimens. hehehe… why? it was a government hospital… i dunno… i used to buy my own gloves… owell, ingat ingat na lang…

Posted by dak at January 18, 2008, 10:56 pm

dyan sa atin, ganoon talaga, kulang sa mga gamit na ganito….

take care na lang, para hindi ka mahawa….

Posted by vk at February 4, 2008, 4:06 am

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