A Few Simple Rules For Electrical Safety

I am laughing so hard, Ruby. You are very good!!!! This was excellent. Keep them coming. LOL!!

Quote from ruby veeif it's an older hospital building, it's possible that there could also be a mouse under the bed. a mouse trapped in a puddle of fluid under the bed in a really long code may end up being electrocuted. really. it's a solution to the rodent problem, but not a good solution.if someone had to be kneeling in the bath water, it's probably just as well it was the intern -- the youngest and healthiest person in the group and therefore the most likely to recover from the experience without any lingering effects. (also probably the least essential person there, but that is also another story.)

Too funny! Good thing I just emptied my bladder before I read this!!!

This has me, my MD father, my paramedic co-workers, my massage therapist boyfriend, my friend the medical student and my other friend the pre-med student/EMT all cracking up. Thank you so much; it's wonderful.(And sad how many of these things have happened to me ...)

My two decades of nursing have clearly been entirely too uneventful - I think I've missed out bad!

I guess it's not directly an electrical issue, but more of a joules-to-jewels transfer. You need to be not touching the pt, and also not have the pt's arm flopped off the gerny and between the legs of the unfortunate man who made sure he wasn't touching anything prior to the pt being shocked.I snickered through your entire 'inservice'

Quote from simbokai guess it's not directly an electrical issue, but more of a joules-to-jewels transfer. you need to be not touching the pt, and also not have the pt's arm flopped off the gerny and between the legs of the unfortunate man who made sure he wasn't touching anything prior to the pt being shocked.i snickered through your entire 'inservice'

This has totally made my day.

dang.i came here to look for a training aid on electrical safety for nursing, then i saw the posts above. wow. unbelievable - no.i have over 40 years experience as a biomedical/clinical engineer (as, bs, ms in electronics and biomedical engineering). i have always believed the healthcare community has far too little emphasized the technology side of patient care. you study infection control but not technology, you learn proper syringe techniques but not ecg monitoring electrode placement, on and on, and, on and on. in the er you have a patient monitor designed for the patient care environment and next to it a computer designed for an office environment. a medical device ul and iec approved with a hospital grade plug connected to a power strip bought at the local office supply store with no approval. what’s the expression about the weakest part of a chain?it is a matter of knowing - it is a matter of caring – it’s a matter of doing. extension cords permitted? maybe- maybe not (i say no - never - except a real emergency - like one time mid open heart - power went out in that room - extension cords one room to another - permitted - but monitored until end of procedure). cords on the floor? no. ever see frayed cords, ever spill conductive fluids on the floor in or - ok then why no cords on the floors. same reason for extension cords. you violate the cords insulations integrity and fluids may enter the connections. also extension cords increase the likelihood of miss wired connectors. powl.be careful quoting others. i hear it said so often “joint commission requires it”. oh really, where, cite me a reference, page, section, paragraph, let me read it. even many of my colleagues disagree. the point is, a an emphasis on a safety in the past lead to a safe today and now a lax of techniques, which will lead to an unsafe tomorrow. the pendulum theory.every nurse, every employee providing patient care should be required to undergo an initial and annual training - sort of like bcls - acls, fire training. some places do it - most not.every day - without exception - i see things that literally blow me away. frayed power cords in or ("oh that’s not good?" - or “we can't take it out of use now - we need to use it", "we have done it that way for years, why do we have to change now?"). all too often md’s use their position to override someone else who knows better. we need to truly all be members of a team, all play by the say rules, and use the same game plans.one example, defibrillating a patient with metal shackles? oh yes and also you say "stand clear" when you discharge. i guess we need to watch reruns of er more.equipment is generally designed to be safer now than ever. but we have increased the exposure far greater, so are not safer today than years past. the or has more technology than radio shack. oh yes, the entire hospital.

Perhaps you should visit allBIOMED.com to complain about how horrible all of us nurses are, and allow us nurses to enjoy a little humor on allNURSES.com.