My Medical Skills Give Me Experience Points

Chapter 1364: Chapter 541: Advanced Nutrition, Mutual Appreciation

Having a super talent like Jiang Wei join them was naturally something they could only wish for.

The only worry was not being able to afford to keep her.

Zhou Can currently had some assets, but he was far from being any kind of capital tycoon. He himself didn’t have the ability to support talent. At least for now, he didn’t.

“I’d already prepared myself mentally before coming to join you. It’s fine if things are a bit tough right now, but I believe life will definitely get better and better in the future. HR already asked me about my salary expectations yesterday. My minimum requirement is an annual salary of over three hundred thousand, under a standard labor contract. If I’m not satisfied with the job, I can leave at any time. If the hospital feels I’m not up to standard, they can dismiss me at any time as well.”

Her salary expectations really weren’t high.

At Tuya Hospital, many nurses earned between eight thousand and fifteen thousand a month. Senior nursing staff earned at least twelve thousand a month, and some could reach twenty-eight thousand.

But for the nursing profession, this was basically the going rate in China at present.

Any higher, and hospitals simply couldn’t afford it.

Jiang Wei was a special talent; an annual salary of three hundred thousand worked out to roughly twenty-five thousand a month.

That counted as a high salary among nurses, but given her academic credentials, many hospitals would fight to hire her at that price.

“If I want to keep you, looks like I’ll have to work hard to land some big cases in the future!”

Zhou Can showed a wry smile.

“Uh! That’s a great idea! The only departments that can really deliver results are Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Neurology, Respiratory Medicine, and Orthopedics. Aren’t you really strong in Cardiothoracic Surgery? Take on more big cardiothoracic cases—never mind supporting one nurse like me, you could afford several more.”

She stroked her smooth forehead and replied with a smile.

She really was someone who had seen the wider world; her words were incisive.

In a hospital, there were indeed only a handful of departments that could truly make a mark.

Obstetrics had been developing better and better in recent years and also had the potential to produce strong results.

But compared with old, powerful departments like Cardiothoracic Surgery, Neurology and Neurosurgery, and Orthopedics, Obstetrics was still relatively much weaker.

By this time, the two of them had already reached the inpatient ward.

The Emergency Department actually wasn’t large; whether going to the operating room, the inpatient ward, the resuscitation room, or the ICU, the walk was basically under three minutes.

During ward rounds, Zhou Can deliberately wanted to see how good she was.

Conveniently, the first bed they came to was an elderly patient who was extremely frail. This old granny had suffered an acute intestinal perforation, and Zhou Can had performed debridement and intestinal repair surgery on her. She was currently lying in bed recuperating.

The old lady’s recovery wasn’t ideal. She was already seventy-six, and on top of that she was thin and weak, so her recovery was far more difficult than that of an average person.

In Zhou Can’s conservative estimate for this elderly patient, being discharged in seven days would already count as good.

If intra-abdominal infection occurred, never mind being discharged in seven days—whether she could leave the hospital alive would be another question.

“Jiang Wei, you’re professionally trained in nursing. Take a look and see if there’s anything that can be improved in this patient’s nursing care.”

Postoperative nursing was extremely important.

The Emergency Department’s current nursing level couldn’t be called excellent; it was at best average and by-the-book.

“Okay!”

She agreed and began to get a detailed understanding of the patient’s condition.

“From her current vital signs, appetite, passage of gas, and urine output, we can see that the surgery was very successful. For the moment there’s no sign of postoperative infection, or of a second intestinal perforation or leakage. Her postoperative care is mainly focused on infection control. I’d suggest she have some liquid food in moderation, which can both promote intestinal peristalsis and provide better nutritional support. In addition, for her liquid diet, I recommend she consume at least fifty grams of ground soybeans every day to increase gas production, which will be more conducive to intestinal recovery.”

After listening, Zhou Can’s eyes lit up slightly.

This was his first time formally encountering the flexible use of nutrition science in nursing.

Postoperative care in the Intensive Care Medicine Department also included nutritional support, but that was purely to sustain the patient’s life, and most of it was done through simple, crude nutritional infusions.

The dietary therapy recommendation Jiang Wei had just proposed was clearly a level above that kind of routine nutritional support.

“Worthy of a PhD trained abroad—this is an excellent suggestion. Tell the family members the detailed dietary therapy list so they can prepare it accordingly.” Zhou Can deliberately mentioned Jiang Wei’s overseas PhD credentials.

This was to increase the family’s level of trust in her.

In clinical practice, when it came to doctors and nurses, family members were much more inclined to listen to the doctor and would automatically ignore the nurse’s presence.

To this day, a large portion of patients and their families still had certain prejudices against nurses.

They thought nurses only knew how to give injections and change dressings, and that even with injections they often made mistakes; when faced with obese patients whose veins weren’t visible, or children with very fine veins, it often took two or three attempts to hit the vein.

These forms of discrimination were very unfair to nurses and were also one reason for the high nurse turnover rate.

“She’s a PhD who studied in the United States and came back, her level is very high, and the suggestion she just gave is excellent. Please write it down. If you feed this granny some liquid food according to her recommendations, it can shorten her hospital stay and save quite a bit on treatment costs.”

Zhou Can was already completely at ease when it came to communicating with family members.

If you talked about anything else, the family would often treat it like you were talking nonsense. But as soon as you mentioned reducing treatment costs, shortening hospital stay, speeding up recovery, you could be sure the family would immediately become extremely proactive.

“Okay, okay, okay, please go ahead, I’ll write it down and go buy everything right away.”

The patient’s daughter looked to be in her fifties as well. After hearing this, she took out her phone on the spot and pressed the record button.