The Mortal gas: Carbon Monoxide

 Be aware that the invisible and mortal carbon monoxide gas can kill very quickly because it competes with oxygen in binding with hemoglobin ( our blood cells), and it binds with hemoglobin, and guess who wins the binding? Yes, believe it or not, Carbon monoxide wins over oxygen. Hemoglobin and carbon monoxide have a strong attraction for each other.

Knowing that is very important to save yourself during a fire or in the event of a suspicious leaking gas. If you see people fainting on the floor, never enter the area unprepared. Make sure to breathe in with an oxygen tank. Now you're safe and good to go. Now that you have your oxygen tank ready, so you breathe oxygen through your oxygen mask, you can go and start rescuing people.

PROTECT YOUR OWN LIFE BEFORE TRYING TO RESCUE OTHER PEOPLE. Be prepared with oxygen tanks, know how to check if it's empty or full, have all the hook-ups ready, an oxygen mask, tubes, and the necessary tools to connect.

If you feel your life is in danger because you were breathing carbon monoxide, so you probably have carbon monoxide poisoning, go to an emergency department and they will collect your blood and see how much the danger is for carbon monoxide poisoning. Get a BLOOD TRANSFUSION, get your own blood type, and the same Rh. If you are Rh negative, only receive Rh negative. If you are O negative, receive only O negative, and so on. Some blood types are compatible to receive different blood without harm, usually, you receive your own type.

Breathing O2 helps, but O2 alone DOES NOT FIX THE PROBLEM. REMEMBER THE CARBON MONOXIDE IS ALREADY BOUND WITH YOUR BLOOD CELLS FOR THE NEXT THREE MONTHS (BLOOD CELL LIFETIME). BREATHING OXYGEN MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE IF THE LEVELS OF CARBON MONOXIDE ARE TOO HIGH, GET A BLOOD TRANSFUSION AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!! 

How is it like to work in Home Care as a nurse?

Working as a nurse in home care is very nice and very rewarding, not much experience is required to get hired, you go through training and shadowing with either the family or the other nurses before starting to work on your own.

The advantages of working in home care are that you work at your own pace, you get to deliver excellent services, because you get to be your true ownself, away from the spotlight of criticism-biased eyes that often happens in stressful environments such as busy hospitals.

The charting program is pretty easy, called Kantime. The good thing about Kantime is that after submitting your chart, you can get a call from your case manager to improve it or correct it later, like time discrepancies, temperature values instead of 98.3F, which was accidentally entered as 983F, it's possible to correct later. The company provides a laptop with internet in it.

Flexible schedule, it's easy to get as many hours or fewer hours, it's easier to ask for days off, because there are more nurses available to pick up your schedule, you don't have to worry about finding someone to cover you, the company does all of that.

Another benefit is that you're not required to take 30 30-minute break, because the work environment is so chill, you only take about 6 to 15 minutes for lunch and still get paid for the full shift.

Working in home care as a nurse is very pleasant it doesn't even look like a job, it's so much fun, I have experiene in pediatric home care as a nurse and as a care giver in adult-elderly, both are very rewarding, as it may be that last day you see your client, make sure that that time that shift is the best of it, making your client feel happy, content, satisfied, entertained, loved, encouraged, gratefull with your services.

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