Name: Becky
Occupation: Student/Occassional Auxiliary Nurse/ABA Therapist/Serial traveller/owner of itchy feet
Home Towm: Bangor, North Wales
Current Location: Bangor
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| Monday, December 11, 2006 |
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Firsts
Had a relatively exciting week last week, but very busy hence the lack of blogage. On Tuesday I did my pass plus test which involved driving to Stansted and back, so I drove on a motorway for the first time, which was slightly daunting but but fine. I caused no crashes and suffered no injuries except an achey clutch foot at the end of it! At work I also had two firsts, my first death and my first shift on A&E, one was obviously more desirable than the other, but neither were as difficult as I was expecting. The death was alot easier than it could be because it was a lady who had come to the ward from the emergancy assessment unit whilst still unconcious and we had been told that it she was dying, so she had only been a body making raspy breathing noises to me, rather than someone who I had looked after while they were still full concious and so more 'real'. I also managed to avoid doing Last Offices (cleaning and packing of the body) as we couldn't do it until the family had come and they didn't come until after my shift had finished. However, it was me that found her dead, which was quite hard. They also had to keep the body in the bay which meant that for the last two hours of my shift I had to keep going in to a room where I knew there was a body behind the curtains in the corner, but continue looking after the other five patients in there and hope they didn't ask why the lady behaind there wasn't having any dinner. Having now seen a body in this situation it should be easier when I have to deal with a patient that I know and have to do last offices for as well. A&E was great- it was just like Casualty, a constant rush of patients which exciting lives, traumatic and unusual injuries and complicated relationship problems, and we had only 50 mins to resolve all of their issues! Ok, it wasn't quite like that but it was still fun (and there is a big computer screen that flashes at you when a patient breeches certain time limits, just like on TV!). There was nothing that extraordinary, a couple of elderly people who had had falls, one we discovered had a heart problem that no-one had noticed before, and a guy with shingles that had gone yucky. But it was a Saturday morning which is generally fairly qute. I have booked myself a shift on there from 9 pm to 2 am on a Friday night which should be more exciting! It should hopefully be a really good place to work on because the auxilairies are allowed to do far more than they are on most wards. So requires extra training courses, but if I do enough shifts there I might be eligable for them, so I could learn to take blood tests and plaster broken limbs, which would then mean I can do them on the wards. Even without training I am allowed to do ECGs and dressings which is very exciting! In other exciting news, Sarah is home from uni and it's less than a week 'til everyone else gets back too- YAY! 12:54 PM Comment (2) ... PermaLink |