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At Baylor University Medical Center and across Baylor Health Care System intranet we are using an application from Thomson Health Care. It is a one stop shop for everything we need at work. It provides us the following:

• Diseases-all diseases we can find in there just type the disease and it serves as our Medical Surgical Book.
• Labs and labworks resource- a resource for all kinds of labworks, When you are using it for labs you can find tips how to collect the specimen, precautions etc.
• Patient Education forms- all you have to do is look for the disease or medication or the type teaching you need to give to your patient and click “print”. There it goes you have your teaching with a form for patients to sign that they have recieved the material or teaching.
• Drugs, Interactions- It also serves as our Nurses Drug Handbook, and its printable too, and serves as patient teaching again.
• Alternative Medicines- Every altenative medications approved by FDA is in there too. You don’t have to worry again what that funny medication is all about.
• PDA software- they also have a  PDA software that is compatible to Palm OS and Microsoft OS great one. A must have for your smart phone and PDA. But one thing I don’t like both format are unsstable!!! needs  inprovements. Its also complete and basically can provide all the things you need.
• IV incompatibility- where you wondering if the IV meds that just hanged are incompatible? at Micromedex all you have to is key in the medication and enter them in a box and click one more there you will know if your vancomycin and dobutamine are incompatible.
• Medication Calculators- Every medicaine calculators you need. except for the highly technical calculations of unfamiliar medications. This feature too can be found in their PDA Software, smart right?

and that makes it great… a MUST have for every Health Care System.

These product Line also makes the life of Nurses and PCA’s very convenient, just imagine yourself cleaning a patients’ poop with soap and towel, like the old way. Well thats very backwards. When I first used them I don’t believe in them… But as time and experience lengthened I like using them.

 I have this HIV patient before and he lives in the streets when he was admitted, Oh he was very filthy as in very filthy… and I can’t stick the telemetry pads  or his chest, with couple of sheets of Comfort Bath I was able to stick the pads and got a tracing on telemetry. Even the Comfort Bath and Shield are very easy to use. All you have to do is microwave it for 1 minute or 2, just to warm it, so you can use it and not applying it cold on patients skin.

This is a very great product. In some floors I worked before they were supplied with heater, but microwave I suppose is economical in heating them.

At Baylor University Medical Center, 10 Roberts you can attend Heart Failure Classes every Wednesday at 2pm in Room 1019. The following healthcare professional are usually present to teach and answeer questions from CHF patients and participants:

pharmacy
nutrition
transplant coordinator
MD’s
10R Roberts Nurses

For more information call +214 820 3810

Usually when at work, we, nurses, bring food from home might be a leftover or a whole turkey depends at least in every floor or unit they usually have something to eat of have on table for fellowship.

So its still like a normal thanksgiving the only difference is that we are in a facility caring for patients who never had a chance to go home like us.

I think its better for family members should stay in the hospital whenever they are confused. The reason for this is that nurses can’t stay in one room and look at them whole time. Nurses like me needs to check the chart for MD’s orders from time to time, help other nurses who are running the code, or maybe do the charting, prepare medication, care for other patients, and somehow get some break and do personal things, eat drink, etc.

I just don’t like seeing patients falling. I have an incident awhile ago and he broke his arm bruised his leg and hit his head. Thats an added insult to the existing problem of the patient. I really feel sorry.

So just don’t forget be with your loveones when they are in the hospital especially if they are confused.

One thing family members can do is hire for a sitter, or ask the nursing service for options to prevent this kind of injury while in the hospital.

I hope that can help you. Take care. Stay healthy!

Well it all started as an ambition to come here in the USA. And everything just follwed though there were lots of set backs then.

Nursing school for my BS was though but I enjoyed it especially learning all those diseases and their pathophysiology. I can remember one night, girls dorm were already asleep, and the 4th year boys dorm were asleep too. While the third years are still doiing a heated discussion over a pathophysiology explained by our CI and all books were already open on table and I can say it was very heated one that it woke up the Dor Dean Gina and told us at 2am to sleep! hahaha those were the days and the Case presentation are the best one ever happpened to us during our nursing school years.

then when I graduated from nursing school I did odd jobs volunteering, worked as a Pawnhop appraiser, was a farmer at one poiont, and a small time business man. But still the Ambition of caming here in the united states never died down.

My grandpa had a CVA(stroke) i took care of him while doing business and took my CGFNS later I passed… then went to Manila and worked there and applied at IPAMS was lucky and blessed by God was hired ny Baylor. The wait was a long one. TOEFL and TSE was fun and the NCLEX RN exam was sure challenging… good thing I didnt pay almost all of the price, except for the notary, you know the NBI clearances, etc… small stuff.

and now I’m thankful for all the blessings He has given me. I know he will help if I will do something. and my ambition drived me here. and thats only one of my ambition. hehehe

Now… Whats your ambition?

When I was still in Nursing schooll, at Mountain View College, in Valencia, Bukidnon Philippines. When we were about to start our stint as student nurse one the requirements for us by our Clinical Instructor was pray for your patients. Not only that our Clinical Instructor will really go with us to just pray for our patients. Funny huh… but it sure gave an impact to one of my first patient who we studied for our Case Presentation.

First night for my 2 night work , here at Baylor Universty Medical Center, my friend took care of these patients who cannot sleep i can remember he called my colleague for a sleeping pill but its the hospiatal’s policy not to give a sleeping pill after 2am and the patient already had taken his sleeping pill and he’s still awake nnothing we can do. Even if you call the MD for it, the MD will just bark at you for that silly information. Of course the reason for that is that we don’t want our patient sleeping whole day and awake whole night.

Well anyway next night I was that patient’s nurse I already gave him all his nght meds including his sleeping pill(whichever ambien, restoril, benadryl, etc.) at nine in the evening. Yet at midnight I got a call from the call light system with his voice saying I can’t sleep. I was frustrated because I dont have anythiing to give him anymore so I went to his room and talked to him and explained to him that he should decrease or not to take a nap during the day, I also offered to get him milk taking in to account milk has a property that makes you sleep but he said no, and I told him that Baylor TV has a Sleep Channel, and he said I will try that… so I turned his TV on Baylor Sleep Channel and told to count his sheeps or his blessings and put off all the lights… but before I approached the door I told him Don’t forget to pray! and he said ok…

an hour later my Tech Karen Maranca came over to me and saidd that the patient want to see me and she told me that the patient wants to thank me about the advice I gave, but I didnt go I gave him uninterrupted sleep and by morning I went to see him I cant belive the impact of that peice of advice. Later he told me that after I told him to pray he took out his rosary and put it on, and prayed and that made him sleep. He was saying its his best sleep for a long time. I admit i was teary when he told me that.

and a week ago I was told that he came over to our floor to give thanks to all of us who took care of him. Im happy to know that.

Now the trick if you want to go to sleep Pray sincerely.. you wouldnt know or you might not even finish your prayer youre already asleep. that happened to me many times.

Thanks MVC for the education. And to my patient God Bless you!

Here are the list for the June 2007 successful passers of Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination…

Pls Click on this link >>>> PhilRN.com

List of successfull nurses who passed the Philippine Licensure Exam click the link below:

www.PhilRN.com

Result to Philippine Nurse Licensure Examination given last June 2007 is now out and ready to be viewed at this site.

PhilRN.com

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