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Keeping a Finger on Pulse - and Oxygen
Photo by Erika E. Durham
Monitoring a patient's oxygen is easy using a pulse oximeter. From left to right, Rebecca Helmreich, D.S.N. student, and Shyang-Yun Pamela Shiao, Ph.D., associate professor of nursing for target populations, show research assistant Huong Tang how to use the oximeter as Barbara McFadden, instructor and director of the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program, looks on.
The machine, which attaches to a patient's finger, was donated to The University of Texas School of Nursing at Houston by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACCN), the American Organization of Nurse Executives and medical product company Nellcor. The School of Nursing was the only school in the Houston area to receive the gift this year, and one of 70 institutions to receive it across the nation. Shiao's active membership in the AACCN made the donation possible.
"This equipment will help prepare nurses using pulse oximeters for research purposes in the lab.We are grateful for the donation of this state-of-the-art equipment to our school," Shiao said.