Morning:
O&G Ward 22, Delivery Suite
O&G = Obstetrics & Gynaecology (deals with giving birth and woman's reproductive area etc)
interacted with staff nurses pretthy, lay hua (i totally thought of ms ong) and florence.
didnt manage to see much cos i wasn't allow to see any patients.. so i was just taught of different cases and what instruments do.
-there are 3 kinds of pain relief for mothers: by oral (usual pills, painkillers), by gas (where mothers wear mask with 50:50 mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide) and by water (dip in warm water.. bath tub in the suite)
-in order to give birth, mothers have to experience a lot contractions. irony: doctors give medicines to give mother contractions = pain, yet at the same time need to give pain relief so that the mothers won't feel the pain of the contractions..
-natural birth: mothers can give birth on the bed, or in water (in bath tub!), which both will do in the ward.. this is advisable, unless mothers experience complications in giving birth, or baby's situation is abnormal (like legs face down instead of head) or accident such that the baby has to come out immediately, then they have to go to operating theatre..
what else, mostly like this, others are just instruments.. when baby is born, they have to be under light (which give heat to construct a stable environment, together with oxygen etc)..
oh, although i cannot see patients, i saw a newborn baby that was transferred to the nursery here from the operating theatre! the nurses then clean the baby, measure head diameter, body length, weight etc..

i think that among all the wards, most patients go to hospital because they have illnesses to be cured. midwifey is almost the only ward that is more cheerful, because you are welcoming a new life to this world, and you are to protect 2 lives at one time.. (provided everything is smooth.. abortions etc is another different case)..

but then, cos got a lot of time in this ward, we interacted.. since midwife is a specialisation, the nurses here already worked in this industry for >10years.. all of them are discouraging me from nursing.. cos they find it a bit wasted to join nursing when i take alevels (you can just take nursing in poly!!), and tell me to try to go for more prestigious courses if my grades allow. then got this surgeon beside us interrupted and asked me to go law, cos all his friends got higher basic pay.. then all of us were like =.= him and the nurses were like "we are not talking about money here hello!", then the surgeon "okay okay sorry lah! im superficial ok! that's why im a surgeon" HAHAHAHAHA.. see how lah


afternoon:
O&G ward 48
patients here are either pre-natal or post-natal (given or waiting to give birth) or problems with the you-know-where..
afternoon really always nothing much to see since they do stuffs in the morning.
staff nurses (those diploma holders) usually give out medicines or writing reports or passing reports to the next shift..
so i was told to follow assistant nurse (ITE) or healthcare assistant (even lower than assistant nurses) to see them do their procedures (those ah-hem stuffs). i followed HCA Indra. okay actually quite interesting. saw her removing the urine etc and measuring them, then saw her remove a urine catheter from a mother waiting to deliver. (urine catheter is a tube you place inside the vagina to pee. i totally saw how you remove it. ouch.)
didnt manage to see how the nurses teach the mothers how to breastfeed =/
oh ya oh ya there was this patient with ASCITES (something wrong with abdomen), then she has another abdomenal tap other than urine catheter.. urine bag is yellow urine, but the abdomenal is reddish-orange to suck out i-forgot-what from the abdomen. i think the nurse told me there's blood but i dont think it's a bloody color =/


oh well that's about it for this day. ahh. students on attachment everywhere.
oh and got this ITE nursing on attachment was like "NO DONT JOIN NURSING" when she heard me saying i want to go nursing after As also.. =/=/