Updatezz!!!!
What de hell am i doing in the evening of 1st day of CNY?? well,since i had nothing better to do n no kaki to play cho dai di with so i guess the next thing I wanna do is to write down my interesting life for de past 1 week...
This week had been a vy bz one for me. Started my preclinical preparation practical. Learnt lot of new skills during this week and of coz most of them are way too cool compare to wat we had in IMU:P
Monday: We had a lesson on aseptic, wound dressing, sc & im injection, and cannulation. Fun!!! Haha..1st time i did an injection all by my own from scratch. Tho is all on model but was still a vy new thing for me to get excited about. Cannulation was the best!! Skill alone is cool enough but the best part is here we got to practice on a model that have blood oozing out when we cannulate them..hoho..So we can actually know whether we did it correctly or not by looking at the flush back of 'blood'...
Tuesday, we had another interesting thing. Phlebotomy aka blood taking in simple word. Haha..This time no more on model.. we are practising it on real people ( on each other basically) . To be fair , each of us had 2 chances to poke others and of coz we will have our both hand poked by someone else..My 1st attempt was ok.went smoothly without any problem..damn pro right..hoho..but my 2nd attempt nearly killed daph!! Her vein is so deeply sitted and with my 'pro' skill I cant get any blood from her after i poked her..The phlebotomist asked me to adjust my needle a bit and cleverly i did wat she said..Can see daph face changes whenever i re-angle the needle..so sorry for her..haha..but at the end I still cant get a single drop from her.LOL. gonna practice more on this ..hmm..does this mean more victim to come??:P
Wednesday, had patient handling in the morning..Basically just a practical class on how to move patients around by using different technique to mimimised injury to urself and trauma to patients. Quite fun to practice those skill esp de evacution for bed ridden ptn..We actually tie them onto the bed n slide them down the stairs!!!
Wednesday afternoon is the most tiring of all..Had resuscitation class. Just as we enter the room we were told that we had to undergone an assessment on how well our resuscitaition. OMG.I did my CPR lesson like zillion years ago..Thank god the assessment is not a vy tough one..after that we had a 3 hrs course on basic resuscitation. Mainly on clinical setting..how to get help, get other ppl to involve in rescue, help in patient handling, ordering test for investigation and etc..Kind of forget all my pharmaco and patho d..After the course we were divided into 2 gps for another round of assessment..Each of us had a chance to be a team leader in the resuscitation team in which we will be assess on our skills, role allocation of team members and our management plan..Tired but the whole thing was fun ,like practising in the real life.
Thursday, rains for the 1st time since i came to Perth. In the cold weather we had our catheterization lesson. Each of us had a chance to perform male n female catheterization..of coz, on model!!haha. After the 3 hrs session we rushed to hospital for our nursing attachment. Spent about 5 hrs in the oncology ward following n observed the nurses. I did a gangrenous wound dressing there and some simple admission procedure.. But what made the whole thing interesting was the patients there. Most of them are old ppl who is having their chemotherapy..I had a patient who is always confused about date and time and he had been asking me to give him his medication b4 Ming Dynasty..it was my 1st time working with old ppl and although i can rarely understand wat they want but it was a worthwhile experience for me. Seeing the geriatric registrar working and communicate with the patient is really an eye opener for me..Thumb ups for them!! Salute the way they handle the patients' emotion and temper..Looking forward for tmr's attachment..
This weekend is going to be a busy one for me..Will pay a visit to my dad's friend on sat for CNY celebration. In the evening will have a reunion dinner with all the IMU seniors and some other asian students at chinatown..Looking forward for that since we had almost zero celebration for CNY. Sunday will go 'crabbing' haha..Will go Mandurah to catch crabs with seniors.Hope the weather will be bright and sunny..Yeah..love going out to the sea!!
Going to move out of the hostel soon tho i got an offer from the hostel..After lots of dilemma finally I had make up my mind to move out..Gonna start my new life in a new environment where I got to take care of my basic needs myself..A little bit scare but since i had made my choice i will make the best out of it..Oh ya..will start my general medicine rotation next week..Luckily i am posted to a hospital which is just behind my new house..thank god..Will have my full rotation in respiratory unit..Hmm..After letting my respi notes RIP for so long i think now is the time for me to prepare myself d..Don wana die too pathetically in front of my consultant..:P
K la..I think thats all of my update..Happy CNY to all ..happy melbourning and bon voyage to Huan!! All the best gal!! +oil !!!
happy chinese new year chuihan :)
aha wah seems like u're enjoying urself there.. can't wait to start mine 5 months later haha. hey have fun there and study hard ya. dun curi tulang online so much haha :P
Posted by: senaiboy | February 10, 2008 02:58 AM