It has been a busy week. Today I had an all day meeting, which we do once a month to discuss business at work, and yesterday I attended an 8 hour in-service on advanced stethoscope skills. In the medical profession, a stethoscope is an essential tool. Over the years of practice I've learned to use it as a means of assessing a person's respiratory and cardiac status, and in the geriatric population it is an essential tool in assessing for the presence or absence of bowel sounds. So, you may be thinking, 8 hours to teach you how to use a stethoscope? That is initially what I thought too, but with the help of the skillful instructor, we learned so many valuable tips. Did you know that with a stethoscope you can actually determine the size of various internal organs by simply listening at one spot and then scratching the person's skin. And with practice, you can actually tell if a person has sustained a fracture simply by placing the stethoscope over a boney prominence, and then listen as you tap on a bone near the suspected fracture and then repeat the same action on the exact opposite site on the other side of the body and compare the sound? It was an excellent in-service. All the information, though valuable, was quite mind boggling. And I thought I knew how to effectively use my stethoscope. Well today after work, though the sun was beginning to set, I stopped by a favorite spot and spotted this simple, dried thistle, and decided to use it as my daily photo. Simple, dying, but yet beautiful. It was nice to see something so simple and enjoy it. My mind needed a break. Hope you all had a great day.
It sounds interesting, but I can understand the way your mind feels. I have training sessions like that as well. GREAT picture....JUST perfect. Simple is good!
just plain old simply beautiful0 wonderful lighting, and I love the DOF and processing. The choice of processing gives this shot a soft feeling even though the subject is prickly- well done:)
always great new things to learn in your field! These are beautiful seed heads. I always like to leave a few in my garden for winter interest. (till they are buried in the snow)
Very encouraging to learn that at some medical corner professionals are still really and literally listening to patients and touch them. What most doctors do most of the time is looking at a screen of some kind and type.
I like this picture very much. Very nice and neat shot.
Simplicity always works...this picture is stunning and thanks for sharing your stethoscope tips with us, who would think that it could be the source of such a mine of information about a person's body!!
As an LVN I always enjoy the info you share on your nursing. This photo is awesome. Soft and nice. Something I would look at again and again if it were on my wall. Do you frame your art??
Great lesson for sure, it just shows no matter how old we are, we still don't know it all. lol I'm sure your family will be your learning to listen subjects for awhile. My youngest daughter wants to be a nurse, I'll be sure to pass this on to her. :-) A lovely photo by the way!! :-)
"isten as you tap on a bone near the suspected fracture" When I read this to my husband (who had a broken arm last year) his observation was that if you tapped near the broken bone the sound you would hear would be the victim screaming!
Love your matte editing of this thistle. Very delicate and clear.
I like this picture very much. Very nice and neat shot.
great shot!
Love your matte editing of this thistle. Very delicate and clear.