Comments on: Internal Disaster

By: tazo

tazo — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:22:00 +0000

fun story: it’s so much better for having a good ending!

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time hauling people around in stair-chairs, I can empathize with the soreness factor. Getting a 300 lb. patient up to their 3rd-floor walkup post- dialysis is about as much fun as your can have working a BLS truck. Unless it’s 90 degrees. Then it’s even better.

semi-related: I’m a long-time lurker, first time commenter. I love your blog; we need more quality nursing blogs in the medical blogosphere. Keep up the awesome work!

By: charles

charles — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:50:35 +0000

great story… they really need to start a nursing show like ER or Scrubs, centering on these kind of experiences (jazzed up of course). Maybe you should come up with the pilot!

By: roux

roux — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:28:43 +0000

We have just implemented Vocera. Some love it others hate it. I would love to talk to your IT staff about the implementation.

Can you email me about it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:31:31 +0000

Oooo, those are not fun. We had two small fires in an under construction addition at the hospital I work in last year. We evacuated the nearest patients because it’s better to be safe than sorry. Like you, no patient injuries and some lessons learned. I think we need to consider the vocera thing though…

By: Carsten

Carsten — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:54:03 +0000

But for there to be liablity, harm must have come to a patient, which you stated there was none. So no liabilty. Oh wait, this is America, with our fine legal system and legal professionals.

By: Tom Reynolds

Tom Reynolds — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 11:45:06 +0000

I hope you folk are trained in how to carry people on chairs down stairs – I mean, I do it for a living, but at least I got some training in it first. When I was nursing, pushing people around on trolleys and shifting them fromone to the other was about my limit of ‘lifting & shifting’.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:35:05 +0000

Good to know that hospitals really can handle that type of emergency without incident to patients! Guess all those procedures and planning pay off!

By: Donna Mirenda

Donna Mirenda — Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:32:23 +0000

Hey! You are MY HERO! So great of you to volunteer to go up there and help. I know that you made everyone feel safer (nurses as well as patients!). I’m sorry You are sore…perhaps you can get a massage from the “travelling Masseus). I’ll carry your bravery with me in my heart while I am gone! You’re the best!

By: geena

geena — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:57:40 +0000

Well… I’m going to decline to say. I don’t know if there’s going to be any kind of liability associated with the incident. I don’t want the terms to be searchable over the internet.
Ya know?

By: Carsten

Carsten — Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:48:46 +0000

So what was the emergency?