Friday, September 20, 2013

What I have been working with...

So I have been working out at Wallace Community College in the nursing dept for the last 14 years. I used to work in the hospitals all the time, making sure the students take good (safe) care of the patients, but lately since I am in and out of town a lot, I have been helping out at the school doing skills check off like - injections, dressing changes, foley catheters,  nasogastric and trachea tube care & insertion, sterile technique, bed baths, making an occupied bed, etc.
We have some pretty modern equipment - like simulated mannequins that can birth a baby & one that we can adjust the blood pressure, mimic different heart murmurs & lung sounds, and make all sorts of bodily sounds.  On the other hand..... some of our equipment is VERY old and out dated but still useable.  Here are a few pictures of what we work with - some have all their limbs, some don't, some have the wrong body parts, some are completely missing essential parts but I won't show any of those..
This is a fancy one


This is the poor woman that delivers a baby over and over

This one used to have a hair but we don't know what happened to it 


This old man has woman parts : ) and we had to use another bed for a bed bath so they had to share

This is my favorite one.  Last year I put little balloons in her eye sockets and drew eyes on them but some probably didn't think it looked too professional.

2 comments:

  1. now i know where i get my sense of humor ;)

    i call dibs on the man with woman parts.

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  2. haha that is hysterical mom! Those are better people than the U had! Why would they put woman parts on that gpa!! I can't believe that lady delivers babies! I want a video tour next time:). Let's see that LIVE! Thanks for posting! Love it!!

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