I had my clinical hospital orientation this morning. It was really exciting and I got dressed up in my nursing school polo, khaki pants, obnoxious gleaming white tennis shoes and multiple name badges. We had a two hour orientation lecture with a nursing coordinator at Memorial Hospital in one of the hospital's big auditoriums. He was really nice and actually facilitated the student nursing orientation for our clinical instructor (FSCJ professor who will lead us through clinicals at the hospital) when she was a nursing student 20+ years ago.
We went over important stuff, like all the different codes to call for various emergencies, i.e. Code Pink, for an infant in cardiac arrest, Code Green if there is a bomb threat, Code Adam* for an abducted child, etc.
But what has stuck with me all day is how many power point slides he had to go over to explain to us all the various ways we have to cover ourselves up with hospital gowns/masks when dealing with "liquid fecal matter" that can "both splash or spray on your face and body."
*Code Adam? How did they come up with that? I'm assuming it was a child named Adam who was abducted.
2 comments:
I bet it is for Adam Walsh, the son of the America's Most Wanted host. His case was hugely publicized for years.
how can you NOT remember Adam...there was a movie about him going missing on the TV every month, it seems when I was little. uh, no comment on splashes and sprays, ha.
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