Day 268 - New Nurse & Trach Infection! 🦠🥵🤒🤧
Friday, September 24th, 2021 Our new (M, TH, F) nurse started today for day shift. Completely different personality from the nurse who does Tuesdays and Wednesdays but still seems more experienced than the first one we had. Of course there are always things that we need to let them know that we do differently. For example some nurses are trained to disconnect the circuit anytime for any reason whether it be to untangle something, clean out a piece of the tubing, or to empty water. For James he has a peep of 12 and if anyone is familiar with how the lungs recruit peep it is super important not to disconnect James unless it is absolutely necessary. We already have to disconnect James or what we call "pop him off" when we put his circuit through the crib railing to avoid him getting rain-out. This happens twice a day. We also disconnect him when we do a trach change which is once a week. Any other reason to disconnect the circuit is really just unnecessary. We all have peep, our...