I personally feel like the free flow of information is critical right now. Being that a lot of you are in the healthcare field, I wanted to share this website with you. I keep seeing and hearing across significant chunks of social media (Twitter/X, Facebook, TikTok, etc) that information from the CDC and other agencies in the U.S. government is becoming difficult to find or even being removed in some cases especially on vaccines. I’m honestly hoping that’s just temporary or not as significant as they’re saying, but part of me feels like it isn’t an accident or part of a transition. Here’s our Public Health of Canada website if you’re looking for information to share with your patients or even just information for yourself. As of right now, Canada follows the CDC on a lot of recommendations. This will likely change if the U.S. goes in a “different” direction. That’s the most polite description I could think of as I’m trying to keep any opinions I have about this out of this post. I hope this helps at least with continuing to access information. There are videos and information posters and everything is aimed at the general public making it really easy to understand. The Canada-U.S. relationship may be quite strained right now, but feel free to use our resources if you need them. 😊https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health.html
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🐾 Another patient admitted to The Dog's hospital. I swear this dog was a nurse in a past life - and she was THE GREATEST NURSE! 🤣
Nursing Shift Handover
Outgoing Nurse: Flash, RN (Border Collie)
Patient: Gerald, Lamb, Day 7 of life
FLASH: Right. Gerald. One-week-old male lamb. Here's your handover, try to keep up.
Personal care completed at 14:00 — full bed bath, skin integrity intact. I also performed an unauthorised facial hygiene intervention with my tongue. It was instinctive. I stand by it. Gerald's expression was neutral-to-positive.
Nutrition: bottle feed administered at 15:30, full volume taken, no issues. He did headbutt the bottle once but I've documented that as enthusiastic oral engagement.
Mobility: patient is now ambulatory. Four-limb weight-bearing achieved. Gait is — look, the word "gait" is generous, but he's upright and moving, which is the goal.
Elimination: bowels open, output noted and charted. Urinalysis — well. He did it on my paw. Colour was satisfactory. I ...