The other nurses were busy with a post-op patient and I was not.
Until you learn your way around you will not concern yourself, or go anywhere near, a post-op patient.
It was a big surprise when three post-op patients had sudden reversals and died in the middle of the night.
I found, with a little research, that in Ireland it is given to blood donors and post-op patients due to its high iron content.
One had his arm around Helen, who was walking with the fragile care of a post-op patient.
The post-op patients were the usual collection of major and minor cases.
She had the four post-op patients to see, and three more to brief before their scheduled surgeries tomorrow morning.
She called the hospital to check on her post-op patients and was told that the doctors on call had nothing untoward to report.
Rather than hiding their surgery, Bickford says, post-op patients are now recruiting others.