Didn't know mothers purchasing breast milk via online

Don't think I would purchase breast milk via, the thought of my baby drinking another person's breast milk wondering if it's even real or clean?

Human milk purchased via the Internet exhibited high overall bacterial growth and frequent contamination with pathogenic bacteria, reflecting poor collection, storage, or shipping practices. Infants consuming this milk are at risk for negative outcomes, particularly if born preterm or are medically compromised. Increased use of lactation support services may begin to address the milk supply gap for women who want to feed their child human milk but cannot meet his or her needs. #nurse 

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/10/16/peds.2013-1687.abstract

Time away from home

Don't know about the rest of the home health nurses..but I love going on doctor's appointment with my patients.  Being out of the house make the hours go by faster.   I have heard fellow nurses who didn't  like going to doctor's appointment reasons were like, getting patient ready including  equipments that patient may need too much work, the wait at the doctor's office too long, being together with parent for too long and the paper work.  Anyways different fokes different strokes.   Love what I do.

Addicted to job search

Anyone else? I'm always searching job site to see what's out there, not a day goes by that I'm not searching for nursing opportunities.  Sometime I feel I should create a site, it will be want to know what's out there contact Sharon I'll tell you who is hiring where.  I stay connected...lol..cause I love what I do.

Can you guess what this is?

What I do sometimes while my patient is asleep.

Faith

When I start a new case I feel a little nervous at first, but I know I have faith to take care of my patient, I done it before, this is just a new patient.  I realize if I live by faith, fear becomes obsolete.  Faith knock out fear at every round.  #lovebeinganurse

Everyone is sick

Everyone is sick here included my patient with a cold.  Do I wanted to be here? no, the night nurse already gave me report and left,  my little patient needed so I'm stuck here for 10 hours.  Wash, wash those hands.  Yes very busy suctioning, with cold come copious secretion.   Still love what I do.

Funny Patient

So I was giving her chest PT with ped oxygen mask( yes that's what we use here) and she took it from me and started to give herself cpt....lol of couse her head got some too.   Them I did a fake cough just to see what she would do next, she started giving me chest PT too... Lol..I love what I do.

Nurse the entertainer

New title the entertainer,  so it's time to feed her, it will take about 2 hours for her to drink 4 oz of feed (PO) by mouth.  She is not use to feeding by mouth, her routine was all intake via gtube. This is new to her and a big task for all.  We do everything to get her to take her bottle by mouth, sing, dance, play music and even distract her with toys.  Now I don't have the best voice, but she likes it even get her to drink all her feed.  Yea me!  Sometime I laugh at myself,  wondering what she is thinking?(this woman don't even know the words to these songs and she is making all these funny face' she is nuts) lol.
I feel good when I get her to drink everything, but after entertaining her for those couple of hours I'm tired...but I love what I do.

Did I washed my hands?

My patient asleep, making sure Trach is midline and intact, connect patient back to vent.    Time to eat but I needed to do some charting  and check my phone text.    I started to eat my lunch but could not remembered if I washed my hands.  I always after doing care and before I eat, this time I was going over the steps in my head, I just could not remember, after saying gross to myself I got up and washed my hands, of course the apple that I was eating when straight to the trash I know too late, but I just could not eat the rest.
Have you ever forgot to wash your hands?

Don't be afraid of a little Trach juice to the face

I remember being a new nurse, my first Trach patient I was little creeped out by the sound and secretion coming from the Trach.  I was gentle and very careful with my patient and making sure that secretions coming from the Trach did not catch my face.   Well getting comfortable and playful with my patient, guess what? I was no longer creeped out, I was there to take care of my patient and I did just that, and of course I had Trach juice on my face and I was not liking it, I washed my face and continued taking care of my patient.    It hard to prevent such incident from happening especially when your patient is a pediatrics and you take care of then on a daily base in their homes.  The more you become attached and can't help but loving your patient having a little Trach juice to the face is nothing.   I love all my little ones.