HOW IT FELT WHEN I WAS "DEAD"

Yeah.. It really is me.. "dead". And anyone who reads this post, even this first line, will be HAUNTED by me for the rest of their lives! BWAHAHA!

JUST KIDDING GUYS! I can't do that to you, I love all my readers! hehe! But really, the guy in the photo is really me.. no joke. I'll show you another proof. ^_^




There you go! It really is me! ^_^ That happened when we had out Return Demonstration for Post-mortem care. It was kinda fun to play dead you know. But I really didn't have fun doing the Post-mortem care to my partner! I missed a lot of procedures and even forgot to bring some of the materials needed! Grrr! Im sure I got the lowest score on this demonstration. But I don't care anyway. ^_^ Playing dead was a lot more fun.. you get tied on the hands, you get tied on your head, and feet tied too. You even get to experience wearing an adult diaper too! (See in the picture) But all the fun ends there! After that, you're going to be wrapped in a blanket. I mean "wrapped" as in "Lumpiang Shanghai"! No body part should be exposed inculding the head and you'll remain wrapped until your partner is done with the procedure! And with no air-conditioned rooms, you'll feel like you're in an oven, ready to me heated! You'll even have a hard time breathing. So if you think being dead was fun?? Not a chance! You'll die trying to breath and trying to cool off your body! Haha!

POST-MORTEM CARE: ROLE OF THE NURSE

I. Purpose:
To clean the patient's body and prepare it for removal from the hospital after death.

II. Responsibilities of the Nurse

1. Care of the Valuables

a) Valuable with the patient at the time of death should be identified, accounted for and sent to the proper department of the institution for safe keeping until family claims for it.
b) Valuables taken or given to the patient's family should be voted on the form sheet specified by the institution.


2. Care of the body

a) Post mortem care of the body is not rendered unless the physician has pronounced the patient to be dead
b) Indicate the chart time the patient was pronounced dead and the physician pronouncing
c) Have the body cleaned and properly identified
d) If the patient is communicable the water used in cleaning must be medicated
e) Inform medico legal Officer if accident, suicide, homicide, or illegal therapeutic practices causes death
f) Prevent all means of distortion, discoloration or scarring of the body as it is distressed to the family.

3. Accomplishment of necessary papers related to death. Death certificate is sent to the local health Department. It is accomplished by the physician and signed by him and by pathologist if autopsy has been performed.

4. Attitude towards the family. Provide all means to comfort the family and relatives who may be around.