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[ocelot]

Today in school we continued our multi-day pressure ulcer (don't click on that) lecture, complete with happy fun powerpoint slideshow with images like the previously linked one. We briefly touched on fecal impaction, too.

Then we watched Hospitals Don't Burn Down, the most horribly traumatic movie ever. It's the Red Asphalt of nursing school, I guess.

It starts out as overdone drama with cheesy special effects, producing some giggles, but then the graphic burning deaths go on and on for the next 15 minutes (seemed longer, but the whole thing is 24 minutes and there's a fair amount of lead-up, so I suppose it was actually 20 minutes max), including crowds trying to get down fire stairs and burning people jumping out of windows and splatting on the ground and other things that reminded many of us uncomfortably of 9/11, in addition to just being upsetting in general. We were all properly traumatized.

Then we learned about drug-resistant pathogens, and practiced suiting up to go into isolation rooms to deal with them.

Then we went and ate our delightful multicultural potluck luncheon.

Nursing school - showing you exactly how strong your stomach is.

Comments

[meb21.livejournal.com]

Just wait until you get your first patient with a Stage 4 on his sacrum, MRSA *and* c-diff.

Not trying to scare you, but that combination is very likely to happen. :/

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Yes. I thought after writing this that all of you who are more experienced with this than me are probably laughing at me about now.

Clinicals start next week.

[ame-chan.livejournal.com]

I'm terrified. Keep posting. It's giving me a clue as to what I'm about to sign up for.

[purdypiedad.livejournal.com]

Ugh! No laughing here. I can to write reports about all this stuff, but I never have to actually SEE any of it. The stage IV meb wrote about is something I type frequently, but never, ever, ever do I want to be anywhere near the doc performing an irrigation and debridement on the sucker, and the poor dude with the ulcer can just keep his pants on when I'm around!

That is, if wearing pants isn't too painful for him. :-/