Friday, May 11, 2007
#69 Clinical Prac Day 4
Today was pretty good....
Margaret helped me with washing my resident as i didnt know if she wanted a bed bath or a bath in the shower... and my resident was ONE grumpy lady in the morning as she wanted to wee but no one was helping her cos she was going to get a shower soon.
anyway, after choosing her clothes (that took me a long while to find out what she wants) , margaret and i gave her a wash and then dressed her up etc... after her i did up one bed, then went to help with breakfast, before doing up another bed and then giving a wash to another lady that shared the same room as my resident. i washed her on my own! wheee im so happy with myself... when a carer came to assist me with getting the resident to stand (she needed a standing hoist), and after the carer checked her groin area, she applied some cream and proceeded to put the pad on. however, when putting the pad on, i noticed some blood on the pad... the carer then check the lady and found she had a little skin tear but that it didnt really matter. so we just dressed up the lady and brought her into the dining room for lunch.
we were told to report any cases of skin tears etc so i didnt know what to do so i asked margaret, who said i should tell the RN and record it down. but since i didnt know where to record the skin tear, i just told the RN about the skin tear, and asked the carer if she would record it down. and she said yes so yea...
anyway after that, i chatted to my resident for quite a bit, gathering information for the client profile that needs to be handed in by tuesday. we then had tea, and then we just did somemore of our client profile things and clinical forms until 15 to 12pm, where we had to go help out with lunch, as per usual.
well this time round i fed a lady in the dementia area.... was abit late at feeding her cos was walking to the other wing of the building to see if i could feed anyone else... anyway, took a LONG while to feed this lady as she kept using her tongue to push the spoon out of her mouth.. which means she only took a small little bit of food from the spoon... which was a bit annoying... and she kept cleaning her teeth with her tongue after each small bite so yea... took 30mins to feed her. LOL
lunch time was an interesting one, watching how Pei and Jeff would 'fight' with each other. cant imagine if they were husband and wife. LOL then after lunch, Margaret came, and told us that 'we are going to leave early today cos its friday'. after doing our little handover, we were told to continue doing our clinical forms for about 30mins more... but yea rite... we were mostly just day dreaming... lol and listening to pei and jeff bicker. anyway, after about 35mins we started wandering off, looking for Margaret to ask her if we could go.... after about 5 mins, we finally found her and we went home... and that was like 10mins to 2pm. LOL siok sia.. hahahaha
well i'll be doing either my simple wound assessment or medication assessment next tues, as well as my physical assessment on tues. a lot of things to study now! lol
Margaret helped me with washing my resident as i didnt know if she wanted a bed bath or a bath in the shower... and my resident was ONE grumpy lady in the morning as she wanted to wee but no one was helping her cos she was going to get a shower soon.
anyway, after choosing her clothes (that took me a long while to find out what she wants) , margaret and i gave her a wash and then dressed her up etc... after her i did up one bed, then went to help with breakfast, before doing up another bed and then giving a wash to another lady that shared the same room as my resident. i washed her on my own! wheee im so happy with myself... when a carer came to assist me with getting the resident to stand (she needed a standing hoist), and after the carer checked her groin area, she applied some cream and proceeded to put the pad on. however, when putting the pad on, i noticed some blood on the pad... the carer then check the lady and found she had a little skin tear but that it didnt really matter. so we just dressed up the lady and brought her into the dining room for lunch.
we were told to report any cases of skin tears etc so i didnt know what to do so i asked margaret, who said i should tell the RN and record it down. but since i didnt know where to record the skin tear, i just told the RN about the skin tear, and asked the carer if she would record it down. and she said yes so yea...
anyway after that, i chatted to my resident for quite a bit, gathering information for the client profile that needs to be handed in by tuesday. we then had tea, and then we just did somemore of our client profile things and clinical forms until 15 to 12pm, where we had to go help out with lunch, as per usual.
well this time round i fed a lady in the dementia area.... was abit late at feeding her cos was walking to the other wing of the building to see if i could feed anyone else... anyway, took a LONG while to feed this lady as she kept using her tongue to push the spoon out of her mouth.. which means she only took a small little bit of food from the spoon... which was a bit annoying... and she kept cleaning her teeth with her tongue after each small bite so yea... took 30mins to feed her. LOL
lunch time was an interesting one, watching how Pei and Jeff would 'fight' with each other. cant imagine if they were husband and wife. LOL then after lunch, Margaret came, and told us that 'we are going to leave early today cos its friday'. after doing our little handover, we were told to continue doing our clinical forms for about 30mins more... but yea rite... we were mostly just day dreaming... lol and listening to pei and jeff bicker. anyway, after about 35mins we started wandering off, looking for Margaret to ask her if we could go.... after about 5 mins, we finally found her and we went home... and that was like 10mins to 2pm. LOL siok sia.. hahahaha
well i'll be doing either my simple wound assessment or medication assessment next tues, as well as my physical assessment on tues. a lot of things to study now! lol