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By: Playskool Nursing | My Strong Medicine

Playskool Nursing | My Strong Medicine — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:41:34 +0000

[...] darn yellow plastic stethoscopes in isolation rooms. Am I alone on this? Playskool Nursing originally posted on Scrubs Magazine|The Nurse’s Guide To Good Living [...]

By: Sean Dent

Sean Dent — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:17:47 +0000

@ Ani Yes I have started to do the same thing – using my own stethoscope and covering it up.

By: Ani

Ani — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:07:37 +0000

Seems like the REAL Playskool stethoscopes are better at picking up sounds than those things! @ megan – i agree, it’s hard enough finding what you’re looking for when you are a student, but then they throw these at us – it’s impossible! I had an instructor that taught us to tie a glove over the bell and just use our own steth. and then wipe it down (a lot!) afterward.

I took care of a pt. on iso. precautions last quarter and I listened to his lung fields with my stethoscope and everything was diminished. so the nurse came in and listened with the iso steth, and when i later asked what she had heard she just looked at me and said, “oh i didn’t hear much of anything” – needless to say she charted that the lung fields were CTA… i didn’t.

By: Sean Dent

Sean Dent — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:49:13 +0000

@ Bev I sometimes think the ‘old west’ method is more effective!

@ Ginger You are not alone!

By: Ginger Freeman

Ginger Freeman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:10:22 +0000

I agree with you concerning the yellow plastic stethoscopes. I think that I could bring a child’s Playschool stethoscope and be able to hear better. I was beginning to think that I was alone complaining about the poor quality of the “pretend stethoscope”.

By: Bev

Bev — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:00:04 +0000

After 30 years of trying the infectious disease doctors and I just do the best we can. So of them just use their own equipment and wipe it down to be honest. Quality of that equipment could equate to the old west when “doc” put his ear directly on his patient’s chest to hear what was going on.

By: Sean Dent

Sean Dent — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:41:15 +0000

@ Megan Exactly! LOL

By: Megan Gilbert

Megan Gilbert — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:47:27 +0000

So funny! I totally agree! As a student, I don’t know what I am listening for half the time and then they throw those things at us….not good at all. Oh and that yellow!!! Just a fashion no-no! haha