Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Nurse vs Bystander

On Sunday at church one of the primary children ended up with a ball smacked into his face which caused his nose to bleed.  I entered the hall and saw him sitting on the floor bleeding.  I must admit it looked like alot of blood on the floor.  So I put my nursie cap on and set about doing my thing.

Bystander comes into the hall and insists that I lay the boy on his back and put a tournique around the arm of which the nostril is bleeding from. I looked at this person with a smirk thinking this person is joking.  Oh no they were serious.  I shook my head and said no thats not best practice.  Bystander was tring to convince me that their idea was right.  I continued with what I knew best only to have the bystander still rave about their way.  Some of the older primary children told bystander Sister Finnie's the nurse which was backed up by President Lydiate telling the bystander to "back away tree hugger".  Bystander conceded but not without putting their 10cents worth in as they walked away to get tissues to clean up the blood.  That job I knew they could do safely.

Later on in the chapel I checked on the patient and President came by too, to see.  The child apologised to President for bleeding all over the hall floor.  How cute!!

1 comment:

Sherry said...

Um, if I were to be in some sort of accident in that chapel, I would pick you to treat me. NOT the bystander. Hands down.

And for corn in the mud! It was a bloody nose! How many possible ways are there to treat such a thing?

And also... tourniquet? FOR A BLOODY NOSE? SERIOUSLY?

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