...see below for this RNs reasons on why you need to get with the RN trend.

Monday, October 4, 2010

AMS.

And, I'm back at the bedside.

First day back, with a patient who suffered from an OD on a variety of his medications. Not much to say about this poor gentleman, except that the MD team was drawing straws as to why his AMS persisted (isn't OD enough of a reason?)...vascillating from neuroleptic syndrome to plain encephalopathy, there wasn't much of a consensus made, and he, young and strong, lay mildly sedated and writhing in bed. I couldn't help thinking of how much of a hell he'd brought himself to, and how long it might persist.

Pretty long, uneventful day, but I won't complain. Slow and steady, right?