Saturday, November 27, 2004

wprk ex is finally over!
it was so boring
let me give you the gist of it and i shall spare all your bored minds from further boredom.
day one:
orientation
all in all i heard that there are 3 wards like 5 times, ward 2 belongs to ttsh 3 or 4 times, amk hospital is a community hospital a million times, and the patients are 75 and above a gadzillion times.
AND i know the differences between physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy.
i know them cos i've heard them a thousand times
cos each person we follow will give us an intro to the hospital
[i could give you an accurate account of the entire hospital and its functions, but as i said in my above statement i will not bore your bored minds into further boredom.]
haha so loh so.
day one we followed a physio called patrick [he's so funny] and we watched.
asically we watched old people walk with/without support with/without walking sticks etcetra.
and we watched old people climb stairs.
and go down stairs.
these old people mostly are stroke patients recovering the use of their affected limbs
so good limb goes up first while goin up stairs, bad limb goes down first while going down stairs.

day 2:
was in a ward the whole day.
followed various nurses around
i know that: staff nurses have completely white uniforms
enrolled nurses have this green lining on their collar
trainee nurses have a blue streak on the front of their uniform
hospital ah mahs wear white top green pants
i assisted in bathing an old woman!!!
omgosh that took getting used to
like in the first 5 secs i was totally stunned so when the nurse asked me to get a clean hospital gown for the old lady i was too stunned to respond
cos its pretty graphic, if you know what i mean.
then i made one hospital bed
then i watched the administration of a new patient
administration = give pt [patient] a routine check up and fill in a dozen forms
the 3 of us just stood there and watched [mostly i stoned] the nurse fill in the form
zzz..
we watched her take the pt's temp
[like i dont know how to]
was qt tempted to nick a few of those theremometer sleeves
so tt no need to buy from g.o when the times comes and i forget to bring the therm
but then there were so many nurses and you never know when the inconspicuous old man/woman who looks like he's/she's asleep may catch you in the act and report your grave misdeed to a nurse
ha.
all in all day 2 was the second worst.

day 3:
I TOOK MC!!!!!!! yayness.
cos foot pain la still is though

day 4:
by far the funnest day
they let us check out all the medicines in 2 huge cupboards not to mention other various trolleys and shelves
so cool the medicines! all colours and there were medcines in glass vials which need to be broken to get the medicine out
so cool
haha we raided all the drawers trolleys baskets plastic bags bottles containers shelves cupboards.. but of course we put it back into their original places
we dont want the nest day's headlines to be:
RGS GIRLS KILL HUNDREDS IN HOSPITAL
haha.
they also let us pack medicine
and keyed in a pt's meds to be distributed at the pharmacy into this cool comp
the screen is super large [for old pharmacists i guess] :)
all in all it was the funnest day

day 5: [LAST DAY!!!]
also the boringest. plees ackscue me for my terrigible engrish
did absolutely nothing at all, apart from 1. embarrassing an old man by going into the male toilet to watch him bathe, 2. give beanbags to an old man who lost the use of his left arm
and even then i only gave around 10 beanbags
and no i didnt see anything i wasnt supposed to see
cos he chased us three tormented souls away
so we followed 1 occupational therapist [ot] and one speech therapist [st]
BORING
saw old people drink water and eat half a cracker for st
saw old people playing with balloons, lying on beds raising one leg, putting beanbags into a basket, catching beanbags, writing, sleeping and playing with gym balls.
so interesting right it toally captured my attention so that i nearly dozed off while the ot was speaking.
yay its over already!
finally no need to wake at 7 take 20 stops to yio chu kang and get home at 5.30 anymore!
yay yayaya aya aya yaya ayaya yay a!


angela posted this at 22:19 [comment]

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