You cannot surely expect to skill up like this online???. This is not
a joke-you should have formal training in this and its both you and
your employers joint responsibility to ensure that you are competent
for the work you are about to do. You have a duty of care to your
patients first and foremost and should not attempt to handle
equipment you are not trained up to use.

Sorry I think its highly selfish and irresponsible going to work on
your own in an area that is high risk and the skills are doubtful. If
you missed a day, then tough don't be greedy , take another day off
and go and learn. Think about your patients -there are no short cuts
in nursing-those who try end up playig a dangerous game that often
can cost a patient their life and your registration. Never mind the
litigation risks.

Fenella
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--- In emergency-nurse@yahoogroups.com, "mizbap007" <mizbap007@...>
wrote:
>
> Hi All
> I work at night and take care of a female pt with a trach and
she
> is hooked to humidifier machine and hooked to a separate oxygen
> concentrator( it also has a humidifier, but the only use the
oxygen)
> machine.
> She has O2 tank. A few nights ago, the oxygen concentrator
went
> out and pt didn't have o2 til am. It was the filter, but the
provider
> didn't have knowledge on how to hook up the 02 tank. She was shown
how
> too hook it up. there was a meeting this week for the rest of the
> workers to learn , but I have a day job and was not able to
attend. I
> feel a little nervous now, because I go in tonight and none of the
> family knows how to hook it up if anything goes wrong.
>
> I have seen it done once, when she went to the ER and that
night
> the transferred her to the room and they hook her up to a o2 tank.
>
> So, could someone help me out with some basic info on how to
hook
> up an o2 tank to a patient with trach before I go in tonight.
> Hopefully the person with the knowlege willShe has a white
vetillator
> hose that hooks on the the humidifier and then a long green tube
that
> hooks up to the electric concentor machine and she is on 2 liter of
02.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sheree, cna, tx
>