...it's somewhere in Youtube as well. Here it is:
Friday, August 31, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Clinical Placement Week 2
Day 1
Hey all~ Assalaamu'alaikum my brothers & sisters in Islam. Alot has happened within the past week. I've been bombarded with "unpaid work" - which is my placement @ Liverpool Hospital. If only they paid us for these two weeks..............but noooooo, it's entirely for experience *rolls eyes*.
Last week was Alhamdulillah a very good week in the wards. I got the feel of the daily routine of medication rounds and I got to do an Intramuscular (IM) injection on a patient...which was awesome!! It's been years since I've done some injection. All went smoothly until I re-capped the used syringe. Nicki (our facilitator) saw what I did and her eyes popped out of her sockets! Apparently I've forgotten the rule-of-thumb that YOU NEVER RE-CAP A USED SYRINGE. Nicki said to me "I did NOT just see you do that. I could fail you for that. You have just injected a patient and by re-capping the needle you could've pricked yourself!" Now I understood why she reacted the way she did. With that I learnt my biggest lesson; and I hope she won't fail me :(
As for today, I've taken the day off to look after Abdurrahman; he spiked a fever on Saturday night and it got worse on Sunday morning - which meant that he & I had to stay put and couldn't go to my mum's place on Sunday morning. Robbie took the day off work yesterday and together we took our baby to the emergency; just in case it was the horrible influenza virus.
After getting his temperature checked, the nurse gave him a medical iceblock to increase his electrolytes and asked us for him to urinate into the specimen jar. Robbie tried but to no avail. I tried the second time. After turning on the tap for a minute or two, my hand was in the way and got some of his urine on it, lol. So I grabbed the jar and he filled it up almost full. I was like "Oh, good boy! Yay!", I was never so excited about urine before!! Lol.
After all that the Doctor concluded that it wasn't a ear, throat OR a lung infection, and that it was viral *shrugs*. But he did tell us to look out for signs of rashes on his skin, and vomiting ALONG with the fever. We were in the emergency for 3 hours. I was so happy to see my parents at the emergency afterwards. Throughout yesterday his temp. was stable but it got higher to 40 degrees C overnight. And THAT'S WHY I'm @ home looking after him instead of going to my 2nd week of clinical. Inshallah i'll be able to go tomorrow, if Allah wills.
~Peace.
Hey all~ Assalaamu'alaikum my brothers & sisters in Islam. Alot has happened within the past week. I've been bombarded with "unpaid work" - which is my placement @ Liverpool Hospital. If only they paid us for these two weeks..............but noooooo, it's entirely for experience *rolls eyes*.
Last week was Alhamdulillah a very good week in the wards. I got the feel of the daily routine of medication rounds and I got to do an Intramuscular (IM) injection on a patient...which was awesome!! It's been years since I've done some injection. All went smoothly until I re-capped the used syringe. Nicki (our facilitator) saw what I did and her eyes popped out of her sockets! Apparently I've forgotten the rule-of-thumb that YOU NEVER RE-CAP A USED SYRINGE. Nicki said to me "I did NOT just see you do that. I could fail you for that. You have just injected a patient and by re-capping the needle you could've pricked yourself!" Now I understood why she reacted the way she did. With that I learnt my biggest lesson; and I hope she won't fail me :(
As for today, I've taken the day off to look after Abdurrahman; he spiked a fever on Saturday night and it got worse on Sunday morning - which meant that he & I had to stay put and couldn't go to my mum's place on Sunday morning. Robbie took the day off work yesterday and together we took our baby to the emergency; just in case it was the horrible influenza virus.
After getting his temperature checked, the nurse gave him a medical iceblock to increase his electrolytes and asked us for him to urinate into the specimen jar. Robbie tried but to no avail. I tried the second time. After turning on the tap for a minute or two, my hand was in the way and got some of his urine on it, lol. So I grabbed the jar and he filled it up almost full. I was like "Oh, good boy! Yay!", I was never so excited about urine before!! Lol.
After all that the Doctor concluded that it wasn't a ear, throat OR a lung infection, and that it was viral *shrugs*. But he did tell us to look out for signs of rashes on his skin, and vomiting ALONG with the fever. We were in the emergency for 3 hours. I was so happy to see my parents at the emergency afterwards. Throughout yesterday his temp. was stable but it got higher to 40 degrees C overnight. And THAT'S WHY I'm @ home looking after him instead of going to my 2nd week of clinical. Inshallah i'll be able to go tomorrow, if Allah wills.
~Peace.
Clinical Placement Week 1
Day 1-5 (Monday 13/08/07 - Friday 17/08/07)
At the moment i'm just so buggered with the internet, as it won't load pages although the wireless network is working and i'm connected.
I wanted to just put down some stuff here, about my clinical placement @ Liverpool Hospital, before I forget about it.
Before stepping out this morning, to leave for my first clinical placement in 4 years, I was quite apprehensive in how my son will cope with me gone for so long. You see, I've never left him for more than 3-4 hours, in today's case was 9.5 hours (0630-1600). I guess it's normal for mothers to worry about their child like that, especially with the first one.
However, I was SOOOOO excited to put on the uniform once again and head out to the real world, where others are in worse shape than I am. It only took me 15 minutes max. to get there and alhamdulillah I arrived on time. We were all waiting @ the main entrance for our facilitators to come and collect us and go through the usual checks and information (as per usual with clinical placements). There were 9 girls in my group but 1 person didn't turn up at all, which could turn out to be a negative thing on their behalf. Nevertheless, we proceeded.
I got placed in a complex Endocrine ward (AG 2 West) which included fields such as: gastrointestinal, aged care & mostly some diabetic patients. There others went to Renal and Respiratory wards.
The history of the patients that I was teamed up with had so many broad and diverse history. Honestly, I was shocked to see a young girl of 19 years in one of those rooms. I looked up @ the hand-over sheet to find that she was newly diagnosed with Diabetes. Subhanallah, our faith are tested at any time and any way that Allah wills. The other patients were pretty much elderly.
The first drama of the day happened while I watched 2 nurses helping a slightly immobile patient into a shower chair. Keep in mind that this patient is incontinent of urine AND faeces (i'm sure you know what that means). As soon as they got her (the patient) onto the chair, she urinated on the floor enough to make a fish pond! Oh well, stuff like that happens all the time in Nursing. All you can say is: "Oh no! She thinks she's on the toilet". Afterwards, having the nurse shower and dress her, she pooped out a little nugget just under the seat while the nurse and I were helping her into her chair! Oh boyy...they reminded me of my early days of clinical. We've got the morning shift for THE WHOLE 2 WEEKS, which means getting there BY 7am. By the end of the day, I couldn't really concentrate in debriefing with Nicki (our facilitator), 'cuz my feet were REALLY hurting - Nurses don't get to sit down for most of the shift - and plus I wanted to head straight home to my little boy.
Speaking of Abdurrahman; he's cheekier than ever now! Alhamdulillah he's able to copy our actions and say some words that I tought him such as: "Ma", "Diddi" (which is 'daddy'), "Om" (to call my brothers, which means 'uncle'), "Ummi" (grandma, to call my mum), "Buu" (grandpa, to call my dad), "Nene" (another grandma, to call my mother-in-law), "Kah" ('car'), "Bes" ('bus'), "Bye", "Uh-oh". Subhanallah, babies are so smart! Oh! He's also growing 6 more teeth simultaneously.
Ok, that'll be all for now. Got an early start from now on, until the end of next week :(
~Peace.
At the moment i'm just so buggered with the internet, as it won't load pages although the wireless network is working and i'm connected.
I wanted to just put down some stuff here, about my clinical placement @ Liverpool Hospital, before I forget about it.
Before stepping out this morning, to leave for my first clinical placement in 4 years, I was quite apprehensive in how my son will cope with me gone for so long. You see, I've never left him for more than 3-4 hours, in today's case was 9.5 hours (0630-1600). I guess it's normal for mothers to worry about their child like that, especially with the first one.
However, I was SOOOOO excited to put on the uniform once again and head out to the real world, where others are in worse shape than I am. It only took me 15 minutes max. to get there and alhamdulillah I arrived on time. We were all waiting @ the main entrance for our facilitators to come and collect us and go through the usual checks and information (as per usual with clinical placements). There were 9 girls in my group but 1 person didn't turn up at all, which could turn out to be a negative thing on their behalf. Nevertheless, we proceeded.
I got placed in a complex Endocrine ward (AG 2 West) which included fields such as: gastrointestinal, aged care & mostly some diabetic patients. There others went to Renal and Respiratory wards.
The history of the patients that I was teamed up with had so many broad and diverse history. Honestly, I was shocked to see a young girl of 19 years in one of those rooms. I looked up @ the hand-over sheet to find that she was newly diagnosed with Diabetes. Subhanallah, our faith are tested at any time and any way that Allah wills. The other patients were pretty much elderly.
The first drama of the day happened while I watched 2 nurses helping a slightly immobile patient into a shower chair. Keep in mind that this patient is incontinent of urine AND faeces (i'm sure you know what that means). As soon as they got her (the patient) onto the chair, she urinated on the floor enough to make a fish pond! Oh well, stuff like that happens all the time in Nursing. All you can say is: "Oh no! She thinks she's on the toilet". Afterwards, having the nurse shower and dress her, she pooped out a little nugget just under the seat while the nurse and I were helping her into her chair! Oh boyy...they reminded me of my early days of clinical. We've got the morning shift for THE WHOLE 2 WEEKS, which means getting there BY 7am. By the end of the day, I couldn't really concentrate in debriefing with Nicki (our facilitator), 'cuz my feet were REALLY hurting - Nurses don't get to sit down for most of the shift - and plus I wanted to head straight home to my little boy.
Speaking of Abdurrahman; he's cheekier than ever now! Alhamdulillah he's able to copy our actions and say some words that I tought him such as: "Ma", "Diddi" (which is 'daddy'), "Om" (to call my brothers, which means 'uncle'), "Ummi" (grandma, to call my mum), "Buu" (grandpa, to call my dad), "Nene" (another grandma, to call my mother-in-law), "Kah" ('car'), "Bes" ('bus'), "Bye", "Uh-oh". Subhanallah, babies are so smart! Oh! He's also growing 6 more teeth simultaneously.
Ok, that'll be all for now. Got an early start from now on, until the end of next week :(
~Peace.
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