First thoughts on Gynae
Sep. 25th, 2008 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeefulfishFirst week back finished. In two days. Hee hee. Have I mentioned how much I love my base hospital? Or rather, the staff there? It's so lovely to be stopped in the corridors and welcomed back by people. It's a smallish hospital, about 800 staff of which about 100 are midwives. And it seems that everyone has stopped me at some point and asked where the hell I've been for the last few months. There may also have been some scaring people by pointing out that no, I'm not going into second year, going into third and it's been two years since they met me first. Time, it does fly. The next two are going to go by just as quickly.
Gynae is very very different to what I'm used to. It's quieter than lower corridor, which was my last placement, public postnatal. Very quiet. The day starts off with a lot of empty beds and ends the same way, there being a lot of day cases. Am finding it very difficult to understand people saying we're really really busy when there are empty beds. Like, 13 empty beds out of 30ish total. I've unfortunately had occasions when I've had to put postnatal women in gynae because it was the only place that had any beds, the alternative being put 'em on a mattress on the floor or, er, send 'em to Jury's ;) _That's_ busy.
Slept for 14 hours last night. Turns out that 4 hours sleep each night when doing two long days in a row is not enough. Had a lovely lovely lady in yesterday and got to spend an hour chatting to her about midwifery and public health and the differences between working in the UK and Ireland - she was a MW and then PHN for years and worked in many places that I know very well indeed. After an hour she was still calling me Angela though, which is a new one. Unfortunately it stuck and I seem to be now called Angela. Hi!
I'm going to get talking to people on Monday about when we can get name tags.
Gynae is very very different to what I'm used to. It's quieter than lower corridor, which was my last placement, public postnatal. Very quiet. The day starts off with a lot of empty beds and ends the same way, there being a lot of day cases. Am finding it very difficult to understand people saying we're really really busy when there are empty beds. Like, 13 empty beds out of 30ish total. I've unfortunately had occasions when I've had to put postnatal women in gynae because it was the only place that had any beds, the alternative being put 'em on a mattress on the floor or, er, send 'em to Jury's ;) _That's_ busy.
Slept for 14 hours last night. Turns out that 4 hours sleep each night when doing two long days in a row is not enough. Had a lovely lovely lady in yesterday and got to spend an hour chatting to her about midwifery and public health and the differences between working in the UK and Ireland - she was a MW and then PHN for years and worked in many places that I know very well indeed. After an hour she was still calling me Angela though, which is a new one. Unfortunately it stuck and I seem to be now called Angela. Hi!
I'm going to get talking to people on Monday about when we can get name tags.
