🐾 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 chose not to make a fuss.
Observations are stable. He is warm, hydrated, and has completed two unsupported bounces this shift, which I have added to the chart as independent dynamic mobility.
Handover complete.
Edit to add the bedtime picture - I feel bad but I'm putting Nurse Flash in a different room for the night. Just in case her Nurse side gets overcome by Wolf!