Travel Bug Dog Tag #1 Nurse

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Released:
Friday, May 22, 2009
Origin:
Texas, United States
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In the hands of RazorbacksRock.

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To travel all over the world collecting stories from nurses as long as they are either funny, inspiring or memorable. Also if you have examples of funny or interesting chart notes I'd like to hear them.

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This pen was given to me by a patient's family member after he had spent a very wild night loopy on pain and sleeping medication. I had watched this mild mannered, soft spoken man turn into a banshee, pulling out tubes, screaming and hallucinating. I reassured the wife that once the medication wore off he'd be okay, but until then he would have to be restrained. Clearly upset and her nerves shot I convinced her to go home, I'd call if any changes happened. Well, for the next couple hours it was a fight trying to keep him in bed, trying to keep IV lines and oxygen tubes in place until finally--mercifully he fell asleep. About 6 in the morning (one more hour left in my shift) the nurse's aid that was sitting with him in the room calls to the desk, "Mr. So-and-so wants to be untied." Great, I moan as I drag my feet to his room. As I peek in the door, wondering what horror scene awaited me, my patient looks at me with clear, focused eyes and calmly asks me, "Um, can I be untied now?" After assessing that he was indeed back to his alert, oriented self I untie him and ask, "You have no idea what happened last night do you?" Slowly he shakes his head no. But you could tell by the look on his face that anytime you wake up unable to recall the events of the prior night and tied to a bed by strange women -- it wasn't a good night :^) His wife was so glad the next morning that the medication had worn off and he was back to normal self she bought me this pen as a gift. I decided to turn it into a TB to share the apprectiation with a profession that is very UNDER-appreciated. :^)

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    Dropped Off 11/8/2009 BluEyz and Bugsy placed it in TB Hotel I-90/I-95 Boston Metro West Massachusetts - 4.91 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/7/2009 BluEyz and Bugsy retrieved it from Town Forest #3 Massachusetts   Visit Log

    We don't have any nurse stories to tell but we liked reading the one that came with the TB.
    Dropped Off 10/30/2009 confluenceman placed it in Town Forest #3 Massachusetts - 13.47 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/26/2009 confluenceman retrieved it from Houghton Gardens Cache Massachusetts   Visit Log

    Replacement tag holding up well
    Dropped Off 10/11/2009 Bigrock95 placed it in Houghton Gardens Cache Massachusetts - 2,628.63 miles  Visit Log

    So close to one of the top nursing schools and many Boston hospitals.... there must be a #1 Nurse here.
    Retrieve It from a Cache 9/13/2009 Bigrock95 retrieved it from Ojai Valley Cachers Roundup California   Visit Log

    Having worked in a hospital, I know very well how much nurses do to keep their patients comfortable and many times the patient never realizes their effort. I will take it to the nursing capital of the world, the land of many, many hospitals and shall get some stories and interesting logs.
    Dropped Off 9/11/2009 down n dirty placed it in Ojai Valley Cachers Roundup California - 1,251.57 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 9/11/2009 down n dirty retrieved it from Cheap Morning Coffee California   Visit Log

    cool pen travel bug 🙂
    Dropped Off 8/22/2009 WeikHikes placed it in Cheap Morning Coffee California - 131.34 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/20/2009 WeikHikes retrieved it from Maturango TB Hostel California   Visit Log

    We'll be taking this one to the coast this weekend. Let's see, a nursing story......... well I was a Hospital Corpsman in the Navy for the first 4 years of my career so that should be close enough. I helped deliver a baby in a bad storm on Adak, Alaska once. We were in a small hospital but the storm had knocked out the power and of course it was at night. We pulled the bed out into the hallway and used the light from the emergency pack on the wall and a flashlight! ..............Then there was the time another corpsman and I decided to go for some R and R at Mount McKinley National Park. We had just left the viewing station for Mount McKinley, boarded the bus, and were 20 minutes into the 3 hour trip back to the front gate when the driver stopped the bus and asked if there were any medical people on board. A tour bus in front of ours had gone over a cliff. Now let me just say that this park is not Disneyland. This is Alaska and it is the real-deal wilderness! We were in the middle of nowhere. We left our bus and made our way down to the scene. There were people scattered all over the side of the mountain. I don't know if this is by design or not but as the bus had rolled down the side, the windows came out of the bus and so did the people. Miraculously, most of the elderly, non-English-speaking people came away with only bumps and bruises. For the others this was not the case. This was the first time that I had ever put my triage training into practice. Three people died within 30 minutes of the accident (internal injuries and one had the bus resting on top of her). Park officials found a doctor visiting the park and brought him to the scene along with medical supplies. I was starting IV's and glancing over my shoulder for bears. Finally the injured were air-lifted out of the park. It was a sad, but memorable experience.

    [This entry was edited by WeikHikes on Friday, August 21, 2009 at 7:51:50 PM.]
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