Thursday, 27 March 2014

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY

INTERNATIONAL NURSES DAY


2014 - Well that was hectic 
Impressions a Staggering 1 Million
482 Tweets
82 Participants 


You Dusted off your Memories
SO MUCH TO REMEMBER
PATIENTS, STAFF, RULES, UNIFORMS
 THINGS WE DID, THINGS WE DIDN'T DO
TEARS, LAUGHTER, INSPIRATIONS
NURSING - DEFINES US
"You Did Remember"


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REMEMBER #REMEMBER 




A TRIP DOWN A NURSING MEMORY LANE

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DO YOU REMEMBER

Magnesium Sulphate

Kaolin poultice to draw "it" out

Egg white & Oxygen anyone?

Opium tincture.


And let's not forget EUSOL?!

Edinburgh University Solution Of Lime

MILTONs ! ... for sterilising?

Savilon

Wounds - Hydrogen peroxide!!!

Gentian stained fingers?

Soaked gauze ribbon in it to pack wounds.






Salt baths pre and post Op?

And full shave - for just about anything!

Nipples to knees / ankles

Nelsons inhaler with boiling water & friars balsam

Paraffin tulle impregnated with honey?

Elastoplast & Sleek on skin


A life before gloves

Chlorhexidine  in Magenta 

Dressing procedures with forceps prowess

The 'Back' Trolley

Many Tailed Bandages


Take the Basket to the Linen - Not the Linen to the Basket

Drapolene

The Visiting Hours BELL

Gets buckle out, gives it a polish

Steam sterilisers ?

Cidex



Patients #OT - bandage rolling in the afternoon

Shiny bedpans

Pillow Case opening away from the Ward Entrance

Cooked Breakfasts for Patients

Folding back the top sheet = The fold back - length from elbow to finger tips

45 Degree Bed Corners

Post Op Beds



Windows we could open wide to the germs out

Full Canteen Service at Night for Night Staff

The Horlicks Gadget 

Prescribed Sherry, Whisky and Guinness on the Drug Trolley



Old beds tall head/foot boards & rails under bed

Bed Wheels all lined up in the same direction

Beds like a huge cot!

Silastic Foam

Sleak

Test Tubes and Bunsen Burners for Urinalysis

Milking Chest Drains

WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER 

ABOUT NURSING

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