Saturday, October 9, 2010
wow!
Today I had a patient who had a kidney transplant. He had not premedicated and said he was told last time he was in the clinic that he no longer had to. Well I couldn't start anything on him until we had contacted a dr for the go ahead. The patient wasn't happy about this at all and was getting really frustrated with us wasting his time. he couldn't understand why it was such a big deal and wanted to sign a waiver saying he didn't care and to go ahead with treatment. The nurse I talked to was not overly helpful in the least and we had to try about 3 different doctors before we got the right one, with the not so helpful nurse. We then had to wait for a call back but then they would not tell me anything until i walked back into clinic and had him use my cell phone i was on to confirm who i was and that he was there. In the end it turns out he absolutely DID need to be pre-medicated they said. After that he was much calmer and appreciative but this took the entire clinic time and once again....NO QUADS!!!!!
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Dayna, I had a patient who's blood sugar was of 395 and had to also do a physician's consult. I ended up waiting for 1 1/2 hour til had a faxed answer back and was able to only get 2 quads done. It all worked out since She was my class 3 and had to be numb and was adviced to only do the three quads which made me feel better. But, it was frustrating and want to let you know I have been there. :) Good luck!
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