I'm doing a combo cardio/diabetes round for these next two weeks, and I finally started talking with the patients yesterday. I did one assessment interview with the RD observing me, and apparently that was enough because I'm on my own now. I'm not complaining, because I get nervous when people watch me but it seems a little quick.
Anyhoo, I got my first solo patient (I'm likening this to the first solo surgery in Grey's Anatomy) and I logged into the EMR to check out his admission notes from the doctor. Everything's looking kind of normal, history of CHF, HTN, and DM etc etc-- until I saw his admit blood glucose-- 631! My god! I had no idea that was even possible. Upon further investigation during my inteview it turns out it's gotten in the 700s before. Craaaaaaazyyyyyy!
Just thought I'd share my shock with all of you in case you hadn't come across numbers like that.
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