excellent reply

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fenella" <organiclemon1000@...>
To: <emergency-nurse@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: [emergency-nurse.org] Re: cna Need help Quick question how to hook
up an basic oxygen tank to a trach pt


> 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
> List Moderator
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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
>>
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