International Nurses Day | Chen Mei: An ostomy who deals with "dirty, tired, smelly"

RedNet Moment News Reporter Chen Yanan Correspondent Li Jing

Character business card: Chen Mei, female, born in 1982, bachelor degree, in charge of nurse, after graduating in 2007 engaged in clinical work so far, nursing age of 14 years, in 2013 to obtain the international stoma wound therapist, in 2017 by the General Office of the National Health and Family Planning Commission as a quality nursing service work outstanding performance of individuals, has been working in general surgery.

Chen Mei is caring for the patient.

"Ostomy" and "ostomy" are two terms that are very unfamiliar to ordinary people. The so-called stoma is that the patient cannot defecate normally, and the abdomen is added to the stoma to help excrete. Patients should live with a stoma hanging on their proctation all year round. Due to the lack of professional care, such patients often have complications such as ostomy bleeding and skin ulceration after ostomy, which not only affects the quality of life, but also is prone to psychological problems. Ostomy therapists, on the other hand, specialize in ostomy, wound care, and care for incontinence patients.

Seeing words such as excretion, bleeding, and ulceration, you can imagine that the daily work content is to endure the unimaginable dirt and tiredness of ordinary people, but Chen Mei, a nurse in charge of general surgery from Changsha Central Hospital, has treated every patient meticulously for 14 years of this job.

Ninjas can't bear to find more than 20 maggots in the wounds of patients

In July last year, the weather in Changsha, the "furnace", was unusually hot. Chen Mei received a consultation call from the department to treat an intellectually disabled elderly person who had been paralyzed by stroke and was bedridden at home for more than 1 year, and had severe pressure sores in the sacrum and tail, and needed to ask her to help.

Chen Mei immediately rushed over with a small medical kit, just entered the consultation room, he smelled a foul smell, according to Chen Mei's more than ten years of work experience, the heart is not good, it may be a big problem. Sure enough, when she carefully opened the scab in the sacral tail, white bones could be seen in the wound, and the wound was densely crawled with maggots.

The people in the clinic were shocked, covered their noses and walked away, Chen Mei herself was also scalp tingling, but after fixing her mind, she immediately lay down on the side of the old man's waist, holding back the irritating stench and carefully cleaning the wound. One, two... Half an hour passed, and Chen Mei cleared out more than twenty maggots from the wound and changed the medicine for the old man.

For stomas, such scenes are not uncommon. As the first international stoma and wound therapist in Changsha Municipal Hospital, Chen Mei receives nearly 300 in-hospital wound care consultations every year, and no matter how tired she is after the end of the work, she will insist on changing the wound for the patient in the consultation department. 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, Chen Mei's mobile phone is always on standby, sometimes two or three o'clock in the morning to receive patients or family members for help, she will not tire of it, to guide the care of patients, but also specially established a "stoma, wound treatment" WeChat group, online answer and guide patients and family wounds, stoma nursing methods, while giving patients spiritual support and psychological comfort.

Dedication and love of the post missed the last meeting with his father because of the patient's consultation

Chen Mei is a well-known "desperate three ladies" in the department. One of the things that people talk about is that she has to rush back to see patients while she is on maternity leave.

That year, Chen Mei's son was not yet a full moon, and she was confined at home in the countryside. Suddenly saw the news in the mobile phone, a diabetic foot patient from the grass-roots hospital transferred to Changsha Central Hospital, orthopedic doctors because of their serious condition recommended amputation, but the patient is middle-aged, is the top pillar of the family, patients and family members strongly demand limb preservation.

After learning about the patient's situation, Chen Mei felt that she could not stand idly by, confessed her son to her family, and took a taxi back to the hospital from the countryside, coming and going for more than four hours, and her son was hungry and crying at home. But she said it was worth it, because she saved not only one of the patient's legs, but also the hope of a home.

However, although the dedicated Chen Mei has saved the homes of countless patients again and again, she has not been able to catch up with the last journey to send her father. Last year, Chen Mei's father was critically ill with lung cancer and was admitted to the hospital comprehensive ICU, chen Mei, who was with her father on leave, resolutely rushed to the outpatient clinic to treat this patient when she learned that a diabetic patient with severe ulceration of the lower limbs had come to the wound stoma clinic, but she did not want to leave her life with eternal regrets...

Chen Mei still can't forget that moment, at 3:40 p.m., her father suddenly had a cardiac arrest, the situation was critical, the doctor in charge contacted her by phone, she was helping the patient deal with a 20 * 15 cm large ulcer wound, in order not to affect the treatment work, she did not answer the phone, but thus missed the opportunity to see the last side of the father, and the ostomy clinic was only two floors away from the ICU where the father was located...

Although her father's departure became Chen Mei's lifelong regret, she said: "The moment I put on my nurse's hat and read out the Nightingale Oath, I shouldered the burden of patients' health." ”