sweepthefloor
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Tape! Bruises! It always makes me sad when I walk into the room and my patient is covered with gauze and tape from the multiple sticks throughout the admission. I am like: what the fuck! I get all crazy and can think of nothing except removing all the tape. I can't even function till that is done. I get like that with tangled intravenous tubing with multiple medication drips and monitor wires. I can't see anything else till the patient is organized and untangled. It is some kind of weird control thing. There will be order, and everything will be clean.A nurse who can put in an IV without seriously bruising you is worth their weight in gold. The nurse who took my blood this morning did a good job; i don't have a bruise (a rare event) and she was nice enough to give me a bandaid (sticking plaster) and not tape so I don't have an itching rash. This is as good as you can get with this stuff.
Sometimes, bruising is inevitable, especially if the person is on blood thinners. I am happy you were not bruised up today! I like to use paper tape. It is easy on the skin. I keep my paper tape on my hemostats clamped to my scrub top, like the cool trauma nurses.
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