In the Ward- 20/10/06

20/10/06- 4th day in Ward 5B

today was ok.. juz tt i was v shagged. hair v messy, "brain dead" etc..

our ward became the hot ward for VRE and we had to be on contact precaution.. quite 麻烦 cos need to wear new gloves and apron before attending to the patients and need to wash hands after attending to any patients instead of using the hand rub..
the nursing manager was in the ward today too.. she gave me the idea tt nursing should include one more module.. environment study or sth.. 被她讲 for using gloves and apron unnecessarily.. about the gloves and apron which cant be recycled, leading to black hole in ozone layer, global warming etc.. which will eventually affect our children and grandchildren yada yada~~
bt i think she's somehow right lah.. cos i din really think b4 using the gloves and apron.. haiz. stupiid me.

on the whole i did assisted bathing, changed quite a number of diapers and finally served bedpan today.. yea think tt's all? cos the number of nurses were more than the number of patients today... and i was assigned to a cubicle with only 3 patients..
observed the NYP nurse Qu Miao (yay i rmb her name!) gave ventolin for some patients, another NYP nurse change dressing for a patient, and Mary and Joanna attending to a patient with a bed sore..
oh think today a patient in our ward went for doppler scan or sth but din have chance to tag along cos i was bz.. wasted.
oh me and yiwen changed diapers for a female patient but we were quite messy.. haiz. felt v 对不起 to the patient cos we kept turning her.. haiz. muz try to improve on this.

Mary taught us how to use the dinamap today.. the machine quite cool. bt seems tt the one we used was spoilt cos my bp was 132/83! and the dinamap cant even measure Shu xian's bp initally.. haha.