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More from: "My Time In Service:"
You never know when an Army Skill may transfer over into Civilian Life.
I got a job as an Orderly in a local Hospital while I was in the Reserves. The Nurses would have to clean the rooms after the Patient was discharged...or passed on. And they had to strip and make the beds.
Well, I figured that they were better off doing their Nursing stuff than making beds. So whenever I was not busy transporting patients to the different floors and X- ray...I would volunteer to make the beds up for them.
So the Head Nurse comes over to me one day and says:
"Kevin, are you the ones making the beds?"
"Yes. Is that against the rules?"
She smiled.
"No, but I wonder if you would give a Class to the Nursing Students, because your beds are made marvelously. Where did you learn to make "hospital corners " with creases like that?"
I didn't know they were called Hospital Corners. I just learned to pass inspection and bounce the proverbial quarter off my bunk.
So a few months later, we get a new Orderly. Fresh from his four year enlistment as a Marine.
And I thought my beds were ready for inspection. His were...well, better. Way better. So he started helping out too.
The Hospital Manager came and looked at two beds the Marine and I had just finished making up.
He shook his head and said:
"Where in the world did you guys learn this?"
(Pointing to the beds)
"They are like trampolines!"
We both smiled at each other and gave a High Five.
"Oh, just something we picked up in the Service."
If the Manager of the Hospital had only been in Service, instead of thanking us, he would have checked the beds, smiled, and said:
"Carry on."
You never know when an Army Skill may transfer over into Civilian Life.
I got a job as an Orderly in a local Hospital while I was in the Reserves. The Nurses would have to clean the rooms after the Patient was discharged...or passed on. And they had to strip and make the beds.
Well, I figured that they were better off doing their Nursing stuff than making beds. So whenever I was not busy transporting patients to the different floors and X- ray...I would volunteer to make the beds up for them.
So the Head Nurse comes over to me one day and says:
"Kevin, are you the ones making the beds?"
"Yes. Is that against the rules?"
She smiled.
"No, but I wonder if you would give a Class to the Nursing Students, because your beds are made marvelously. Where did you learn to make "hospital corners " with creases like that?"
I didn't know they were called Hospital Corners. I just learned to pass inspection and bounce the proverbial quarter off my bunk.
So a few months later, we get a new Orderly. Fresh from his four year enlistment as a Marine.
And I thought my beds were ready for inspection. His were...well, better. Way better. So he started helping out too.
The Hospital Manager came and looked at two beds the Marine and I had just finished making up.
He shook his head and said:
"Where in the world did you guys learn this?"
(Pointing to the beds)
"They are like trampolines!"
We both smiled at each other and gave a High Five.
"Oh, just something we picked up in the Service."
If the Manager of the Hospital had only been in Service, instead of thanking us, he would have checked the beds, smiled, and said:
"Carry on."
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I recall falling asleep half submerged in another creek and when roused awake, good news, no bed to make!
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SGT Kevin Hughes
One time on maneuvers ...I found that a track had dug out a nice flat area. So I thought I would put my shelter half up there. And it rained. and I found myself in the middle of a pond. All my gear was soaked...as was I. And trying to find another spot in the middle of the night...well, I gave up and slept next to a tree I could lean back on. It wasn't Nam, but it was Nature.
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SGT Philip Roncari
Or as your air mattress is slowly deflating after the termites got to it,!Welcome home Brothers.
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The hospital I started out in as an orderly and LPN student taught us how to make a hospital bed, not quite to the military standard, but close. I even was taught how to make a bed ready to accept a surgical patient.
Unfortunately, many of the hospitals that I resided in post-op, were not made properly to receive a patient. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
Unfortunately, many of the hospitals that I resided in post-op, were not made properly to receive a patient. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
What's the difference for a Surgical Patient? We had different bedding and mattresses for the burn unit, but we weren't allowed in there - as we were too big a risk for infection. So I don't know how they made those beds.
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Maj Robert Thornton
There was a way we would fan fold the top bedding to the opposite side of the hospital bed from where we were transitioning the post op patient into the bed SGT Kevin Hughes. Once repaint was in the bed all you had to do is pull the sheet over the patient. As it unfolded it would cover the whole patient. Then you tucked in the bottom of the sheet.
I was taught that as an LPN student. I used the technique when I worked the floors that received postoperative patients.
I was taught that as an LPN student. I used the technique when I worked the floors that received postoperative patients.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
Maj Robert Thornton - That is a handy little trick...I think I could have learned it. And makes it easier on the patient and the folks moving the patient.
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