im in renal ward.....totally didnt expect it....was so sure that i would go back to my prcp onco ward..like 90% sure...and renal discipline is not in my choice at all! :/
Still, i didnt exactly pray to get into any particular discipline...but just that, its still a big shock. And i miss the staff of my prcp ward :/ i miss my preceptor! i miss knowing what to do...well roughly anyway. Thank God for this ward though, he knows best, and also for there being one person that i know in the same ward that I am in (:
Was so totally lost in the ward today...i know nothing about renal patients to begin with, and to add to that i know nothing about the ward, and worse we are considered a high risk ward. Was in a suffocating mask all day in part of the many stepped up measures against swine flu. All infection controls have been stepped up. When the papers said the hospitals were ready, they meant it.
And everyone is too busy and stressed to give us a detailed orientation. I didnt know my patients' diagnosis, didnt know where everything is, not even the patient's bathroom at first, or where the thermometer is kept. So all the new staff are asking where everything is, all day long. Sigh. I felt like I was troubling the nurses there.
Hope i get used to things there soon..currently everyone is stressed over swine flu...keep having new information and new measures/instructions even within a day.
I wonder why renal ward is considered high risk. Need to go dig out and read up my lectures on renal patients. I cant remember what causes renal failure/disease, how it happens, the treatment, nursing management and common medications of renal patients. So lost :/ Maybe i can guess at its being high-risk for swine flu infection after i know more about the renal discipline.
Looking forward to transformation conference (:
~He makes all things beautiful, in His time~
