The nurses who were engaged in dispatch in Suzu City in January and February will now participate in support of Keiju Medical Center in Nanao City.
＜Report from a Nurse＞Since it was my first day, I focused on patient care activities to familiarize myself with the atmosphere of the hospital ward. These included changing diapers, bathing hands and feet, serving meals, assisting with meals, distributing medications, inspecting emergency carts, installing monitors on patients who were off monitors and changing batteries, and watching over patients using bed release sensors. The day was relatively full of people. I assisted in gathering information on patients with monitors.
I felt that the hospital was quite cutting-edge in terms of hardware. The iPhone was used as a nurse call system, from which various inputs could be made, and the patient’s status was displayed on a monitor around the patient’s bed. The computerized medical record system, which I have never seen before, was amazingly easy to access information on a single screen.
I had a chance to talk with the head nurse during lunch break, and she told me that the water supply finally came back on just a few days ago. On the way to the hospital, I had the impression that there were only a few houses that had collapsed, but I felt that the traces of the earthquake were still there in places that could not be seen.
