Wednesday, May 9, 2007
#67 Clinical Prac Day 2
Woke up at 5.45am.
washed up, dilly dallied around in my room until about 6.20am before i left. (will be waking up at 6am from now on) and reached the home at about 15 to 7am. which was about nearly the same time everyone else came. anyway, parked the car, sort of 'broke' into the agency cos at the main sliding doors there is a security code but apparently we were all looking when staff were keying in the number to come in from outside so yea. anyway, we placed all of our stuff at the staff room on top of the lockers and went for our hand over at the nurses' station.
had our briefing, and margaret (tutor) then took each one of us to meet with our residents and to help out with showering etc. since lauren's and my residents were still asleep, margaret asked us to go make up some beds cos there were some clients out of their beds and going into showers already. so we made up a few beds, asked a carer, Ken (asian dude) if we could help with anything.. and since he was just finishing up with showering one client, he asked us to help put his clothes on. after doing that, lauren and i proceeded with folding up a few more beds until it was breakfast, and we were asked to feed some residents who ate in their beds and needed help to eat.
i had a nice lady whom i had to prompt by opening my mouth and going AHHHH!!!!! good girl.... but i had quite a hard time understanding what she was trying to say.. she said she was 'lost in thought' but it took me quite awhile to understand what she was talking about... anyway, after feeding her i went to keep the stuff back, and then asked margaret for something to do... she then intro-ed me to my resident, and then we went back out again. i then asked her who's the carer caring for my resident cos i wanted to experience a shower or bed bath. by the time i found that carer, she asked me to do something before she disappeared. then when i found her again, she just asked me to make up a bed before she disappeared again. by the time i found her, she was giving a sponge bath to a resident in palliative care. (having basic needs such as some nutrition, and hygiene and pressure management cos person is going to heaven soon)
anyway, the carer was finishing up with the sponge bath... everything was quite alright until she turned the resident onto her left, exposing the HUGE sacral *butt area* pressure wound. and it stank like anything. it was just TOTALLY offensive... anyway i decided to do some shallow breathing but the smell lasted only a short while... i dunno... mayb i got used to it. anyway, continued with assisting with putting on the clothes...
anyway, after that my carer kept disappearing and i was just making beds and helping out with some manual handling (using hoists to lift residents off bed off chair into chair etc) and bringing the clients out into the garden for a special morning tea for mother's day. well, one resident refused to go outside into the garden with the rest. and i helped with hoisting another resident that a carer was just getting up from the bed in order to put the resident onto the commode. i think the resident had only peed, but that stench was just horrific.. i dont know. it seemed so much worse than the pressure ulcer odor.... so bad to the point i nearly gagged. BUT i managed to hold it in. anyway, went away since Jing, another student, volunteered to do the bed.
well, after getting most of the residents out into the garden, we had a tea break. it was only 10am but i was already tired. that was the longest 3 hours ever. after tea we went upstairs into a little tutorial room for a short tutorial on skin integrity (she really didnt teach us much) and then we filled in our clinical forms..
at 11.45am we headed out of the room to help with lunch.
lauren and i were asked to go to the dementia ward and feed to residents in the same room. they were pretty easy to feed... Lauren's resident kept talking away.... which would be quite hard for me cos i wont say anything much. well my resident just woken up and i just fed her quietly... she didnt talk or anything. so i just went AHHHHH!!!!!!! and opened my mouth, at which she did. feeding her was quite alright...only thing is that after i fed her i forgot to put the bed rails back up. after helping to keep all the kitchen ware, we had our lunch at 12.20pm, until 1pm, when we went down, and out into the garden, to start taking down client data again.
ANYWAY. thats all for my clinical prac day 2. super tired after that shift. but i guess it'll get better tomorrow. i hope i get to assist in proper washing and bed baths... since i didnt really see much of the sponging one.
i miss my lau hentai baboon. LOL =P
washed up, dilly dallied around in my room until about 6.20am before i left. (will be waking up at 6am from now on) and reached the home at about 15 to 7am. which was about nearly the same time everyone else came. anyway, parked the car, sort of 'broke' into the agency cos at the main sliding doors there is a security code but apparently we were all looking when staff were keying in the number to come in from outside so yea. anyway, we placed all of our stuff at the staff room on top of the lockers and went for our hand over at the nurses' station.
had our briefing, and margaret (tutor) then took each one of us to meet with our residents and to help out with showering etc. since lauren's and my residents were still asleep, margaret asked us to go make up some beds cos there were some clients out of their beds and going into showers already. so we made up a few beds, asked a carer, Ken (asian dude) if we could help with anything.. and since he was just finishing up with showering one client, he asked us to help put his clothes on. after doing that, lauren and i proceeded with folding up a few more beds until it was breakfast, and we were asked to feed some residents who ate in their beds and needed help to eat.
i had a nice lady whom i had to prompt by opening my mouth and going AHHHH!!!!! good girl.... but i had quite a hard time understanding what she was trying to say.. she said she was 'lost in thought' but it took me quite awhile to understand what she was talking about... anyway, after feeding her i went to keep the stuff back, and then asked margaret for something to do... she then intro-ed me to my resident, and then we went back out again. i then asked her who's the carer caring for my resident cos i wanted to experience a shower or bed bath. by the time i found that carer, she asked me to do something before she disappeared. then when i found her again, she just asked me to make up a bed before she disappeared again. by the time i found her, she was giving a sponge bath to a resident in palliative care. (having basic needs such as some nutrition, and hygiene and pressure management cos person is going to heaven soon)
anyway, the carer was finishing up with the sponge bath... everything was quite alright until she turned the resident onto her left, exposing the HUGE sacral *butt area* pressure wound. and it stank like anything. it was just TOTALLY offensive... anyway i decided to do some shallow breathing but the smell lasted only a short while... i dunno... mayb i got used to it. anyway, continued with assisting with putting on the clothes...
anyway, after that my carer kept disappearing and i was just making beds and helping out with some manual handling (using hoists to lift residents off bed off chair into chair etc) and bringing the clients out into the garden for a special morning tea for mother's day. well, one resident refused to go outside into the garden with the rest. and i helped with hoisting another resident that a carer was just getting up from the bed in order to put the resident onto the commode. i think the resident had only peed, but that stench was just horrific.. i dont know. it seemed so much worse than the pressure ulcer odor.... so bad to the point i nearly gagged. BUT i managed to hold it in. anyway, went away since Jing, another student, volunteered to do the bed.
well, after getting most of the residents out into the garden, we had a tea break. it was only 10am but i was already tired. that was the longest 3 hours ever. after tea we went upstairs into a little tutorial room for a short tutorial on skin integrity (she really didnt teach us much) and then we filled in our clinical forms..
at 11.45am we headed out of the room to help with lunch.
lauren and i were asked to go to the dementia ward and feed to residents in the same room. they were pretty easy to feed... Lauren's resident kept talking away.... which would be quite hard for me cos i wont say anything much. well my resident just woken up and i just fed her quietly... she didnt talk or anything. so i just went AHHHHH!!!!!!! and opened my mouth, at which she did. feeding her was quite alright...only thing is that after i fed her i forgot to put the bed rails back up. after helping to keep all the kitchen ware, we had our lunch at 12.20pm, until 1pm, when we went down, and out into the garden, to start taking down client data again.
ANYWAY. thats all for my clinical prac day 2. super tired after that shift. but i guess it'll get better tomorrow. i hope i get to assist in proper washing and bed baths... since i didnt really see much of the sponging one.
i miss my lau hentai baboon. LOL =P