Monday, May 12, 2008
* My First Duty *
I was very excited this morning that I forgot to take my vitamins. Err.My first duty finally! My shift started at 7 A.M to 3:00 P.M.
We (my clinical instructor and group mates) met at the waiting shed of Baguio General Hospital at 6:15 A.M.
Ma'am Dulawan oriented us and we finally went to the "nurse's room".
We were assigned to the Female Medical Ward.
My first patient got discharged after we had our flag ceremony. (Grabe, I established rapport already then she suddenly told me she'll be leaving at 10 AM).
I told my instructor this and she assigned me a new patient.
I was able to establish rapport with them (the patient and her significant other) after a while because there were a lot of questions asked first. But then, they were accomodating after I already asked questions that were much personal (because it is needed for our output).
My first error: in the TPR (Temperature-Pulse-Respiratory) sheet, I was able to plot all the information correctly until I reached the urine output. Ma'am was dictating the information she read from my notebook and said my patient's urine output is 500 cc/IFC. So I wrote it under the 10AM shift and when I checked my notebook, it was 570! I had to erase it and when she checked it before returning it to the chart, she said that she didn't want errors. Okay I admit I should've checked it first before writing it down. So there was my first error. Haha.
In total, it was a good experience. AJA! Back to work. I have to do my journal report.
