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Mar. 1st, 2007 04:48 pmYesterday was great. Got the report taken (and trying to remember that SPC is semi-private clinic and not a medical condition was my objective for the day) and headed off shadowing midwife for the morning obs routine. No manual sphyg (boo! need more practice there but have own so it's going to be carried round with me. Friends are my new guinea pigs, there, you've been warned.) Tremendously busy yesterday and students outnumbered midwives by gazillions. We've got some of the DCU general nurses in on their maternity placement and felt awful for them, things were so busy that we simply didn't have time to get them to do any hands-on stuff. I hate when that happens to me but at least I've 4 years to get everything done myself, 2 days in each area is not enough exposure.
More obs to be done after breakfast and bells going off nearly constantly. Starting to get very annoyed that the call bell for the private rooms sounds almost exactly like a crash bell. Private does not mean you get more attention, certainly not from me. But the screech of the bell gets through faster than the beep beep of the public bell. Crap. So, Pinnard stethoscope in pocket I set off, confident as hell in my skills and knowing that I wasn't expected to be able to hear foetal heart using the Pinnard for a while yet. Poke, poke, feel, feel, ah, there's a back and there's a head and oh good the bit at the other end is a bit less hard so that's a bottom and there's a leg and so heart should be *plonks Pinnard down* there. And it was, and I heard foetal heart. And it was good. Going to get me my own Pinnard.
And now I have finished my learning objectives for my prenatal placement. 3 weeks early. Just have to find someone who has a spare 5 seconds to get them to sign me off on it and I'll be happy. At least I have 3 weeks now to get those 5 seconds.
Many hugs in the evening from lovely lovely people. Much needed hugs too. But less-needed than they were last week. And that's good too. Bit of a blip there for a while but we're back to loving this odd numbered year.
More obs to be done after breakfast and bells going off nearly constantly. Starting to get very annoyed that the call bell for the private rooms sounds almost exactly like a crash bell. Private does not mean you get more attention, certainly not from me. But the screech of the bell gets through faster than the beep beep of the public bell. Crap. So, Pinnard stethoscope in pocket I set off, confident as hell in my skills and knowing that I wasn't expected to be able to hear foetal heart using the Pinnard for a while yet. Poke, poke, feel, feel, ah, there's a back and there's a head and oh good the bit at the other end is a bit less hard so that's a bottom and there's a leg and so heart should be *plonks Pinnard down* there. And it was, and I heard foetal heart. And it was good. Going to get me my own Pinnard.
And now I have finished my learning objectives for my prenatal placement. 3 weeks early. Just have to find someone who has a spare 5 seconds to get them to sign me off on it and I'll be happy. At least I have 3 weeks now to get those 5 seconds.
Many hugs in the evening from lovely lovely people. Much needed hugs too. But less-needed than they were last week. And that's good too. Bit of a blip there for a while but we're back to loving this odd numbered year.
