Tuesday, May 15, 2007
#75 Clinical Prac Day 5
well, its day 5 of my clinical prac...
same old routine..
showered my resident from like 30mins (mayb longer who knows who cares).
she had her bowels open this morning. want a description? lol
then helped out with morning breakfast, then walked around until about 9.45, before i was called by a carer and asked to help her with a resident. well that resident had a suppository in the morning and shit all over the night pads and onto the bed. had to do a full bed change. anyway, i knew the carer was going to ask me to wash her as well but i told her i had to go for morning tea but i'll just do up the bed. LOL SMELLY BUSINESS!!!
after our morning tea break, we just went to study up for our physical assessment. mine was due at 1.30pm. went around the usual business of helping to feed residents at 11.45, then at 12.30 we went and had our own lunch. i had rice, kimchee, ikanbilis, canned salmon with mayo, and some chicken meat. (what a mix)
and then, it was time for my assessment. off i went and picked out musculoskeletal assessment (something that i wanted to do! yay!) which was something different from the three girls before me.....they all had posterior lung assessment! LOL oh well.... then we went to my residents room... and found her sleeping... snoring away happily... LOL so, my assessment got postponed to tomorrow morning. then margaret went around looking for other residents... and found that all of them were playing BINGO! WOW... so margaret decided to let us all go early.
anyway there were 2 new residents.... replacing the ones that died.. one on friday, one on sunday. both were in palliative care. oh well... worst part was that one of the new residents, that came on sunday night, was dropped off only with her nighting gown. full stop. no other clothes. so after she had a shower in the morning, a student had to go to the laundry to look for a dress. best part was, at around 9.20am, Lauren Pei and I found that resident sitting on the chair in the lounge with a summer dress on with no stockings anything. not even a cardigan. like hello? the poor lady was shivering away. and since she didnt have anything we had to look for spare cardigans and a blanket for her. HORRIBLE to just leave her at the home without any warm clothes.
lol so im back home now...suffering from a splitting headache that is absolutely making me feel as though my brains are being put into liquid nitrogen.
have to fill in clinical form still though.... brain... pain... splitting in two... arrrgghhhh.....
same old routine..
showered my resident from like 30mins (mayb longer who knows who cares).
she had her bowels open this morning. want a description? lol
then helped out with morning breakfast, then walked around until about 9.45, before i was called by a carer and asked to help her with a resident. well that resident had a suppository in the morning and shit all over the night pads and onto the bed. had to do a full bed change. anyway, i knew the carer was going to ask me to wash her as well but i told her i had to go for morning tea but i'll just do up the bed. LOL SMELLY BUSINESS!!!
after our morning tea break, we just went to study up for our physical assessment. mine was due at 1.30pm. went around the usual business of helping to feed residents at 11.45, then at 12.30 we went and had our own lunch. i had rice, kimchee, ikanbilis, canned salmon with mayo, and some chicken meat. (what a mix)
and then, it was time for my assessment. off i went and picked out musculoskeletal assessment (something that i wanted to do! yay!) which was something different from the three girls before me.....they all had posterior lung assessment! LOL oh well.... then we went to my residents room... and found her sleeping... snoring away happily... LOL so, my assessment got postponed to tomorrow morning. then margaret went around looking for other residents... and found that all of them were playing BINGO! WOW... so margaret decided to let us all go early.
anyway there were 2 new residents.... replacing the ones that died.. one on friday, one on sunday. both were in palliative care. oh well... worst part was that one of the new residents, that came on sunday night, was dropped off only with her nighting gown. full stop. no other clothes. so after she had a shower in the morning, a student had to go to the laundry to look for a dress. best part was, at around 9.20am, Lauren Pei and I found that resident sitting on the chair in the lounge with a summer dress on with no stockings anything. not even a cardigan. like hello? the poor lady was shivering away. and since she didnt have anything we had to look for spare cardigans and a blanket for her. HORRIBLE to just leave her at the home without any warm clothes.
lol so im back home now...suffering from a splitting headache that is absolutely making me feel as though my brains are being put into liquid nitrogen.
have to fill in clinical form still though.... brain... pain... splitting in two... arrrgghhhh.....