After my first day at JR ("the busiest, stinkiest hospital EVAR")...
I love it!
First of all, it's not as stinky as i imagined.
But everywhere you look, there is something to be done! 3 hours pass and it feels like 10 minutes because you are running and bustling, and poking and nagmamarunong and monitoring and blah blah blah. It doesn't end.
Today i did my first extraction, and it was a success! Yay, one shot! Take note, it was on a baby!
Unfortunately, before i get a turn at extracting from the baby, there were already two tries. Resident and I were restraining the baby while co-intern took her shot. She missed initially, and then did a "search" - you don't remove the syringe, instead you poke around in order to find the vein. She didn't find it. Kawawa si baby. :o(
Resident reaches over, takes hold of the syringe and (violently) shows her how to search. I thought I might puke so i looked away while restraining. :o((( for baby.
After the two unsuccessful tries, resident asked me if i wanted a shot. I declined. She insisted. So came my one-shot! Yay for me! Yay for baby because she was done!
(later on her mother asked me angrily why there were so many holes on her arms. i told her to speak to the resident. i may not have agreed with the occurrences, but there is/should be a rule among doctor's: WALANG LAGLAGAN!)
I got lucky pala with my duty. A quick explanation: there's 5 of us interns from FEU, and duty is every three days. So that means 2-2-1. 2 on the first day, 2 on the second, 1 on the third.
Unfortunately (i thought), i'm the mag-isa. But fortunately, Bart (who rotated there right before me) told me to pick day 3. Thank god!
I'm the only one from FEU on day 3, but there are 2 other interns from Fatima also on day 3, and they're both cool people so yay yay yay!
As for the others, daladalawa nga sila per day, pero they're split between ward and NICU, so tig-isa lang sila technically. (Ako, since i'm alone, i got to pick, i picked ward muna. To get the busier one done first).
Short side-kwento: putang si Chimay jyn aragon, she told her friends na day two ang ok piliin, gaga sya! She's day two, and the resident on duty on day 2 is a nightmare daw! Hahahah you know what she did to Chimay? She *threw* a bunch of syringes at her! hahahaha. So her friends picked day 2 nga. Well, i'm not especially fond of her friends anyway, and someone has to be day 2...
Anyway, i spent about 12 hours there today. Dapat 8 hours lang, 7am-4pm, kaya lang i was color-coded. So i hung around and helped Leslie (the FEU intern on duty), since she was alone.
GRABE. Even with me there, there was an insurmountable amount of work. I did one discharge summary, which took me about 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes, I was interrupted thrice by patients, all asking for something different. (One of those interruptions was the angry mother of the tusok-tusok baby). There were 4 more discharge summaries to do.
I mentioned it to Leslie but I don't think it registered because she was running around monitoring and pushing meds. I helped her with both, but was constantly being interrupted by mothers and fathers saying the IV lines of their babies had stopped flowing.
Ok, this IV line, grabe. It's super hard to do an "insertion." It takes me about 5-10 minutes to look for a suitable vein. That's just me, because I don't like to insert or extract unless I'm sure that I see the vein and my hands are steady, and the baby is ready. Basta, it takes me a long time looking and poking before I even start. I've tried about 3 times, all failures.
I got stopped by 3 sets of parents for IV lines, and that was in the space of an hour ok. I tried to fix one IV line (and failed after 20 minutes of trying). The other two I told them to ask the nurse or the intern because it was 7pm, I was about to go home, and 3 hours late at that.
Buti nalang there's 3 of us on day 3. Because i would cry if i was left alone, no joke. Grabe! (How many times have I said grabe already?)
Ok another grabe. Grabe, how cute/sexy some of the student nurses/doctors/patient's fathers are! Pinaka madaming cute sa nurses. Why oh why are there so many cute nurses? I will try to flirt nga with some of them. I hope i find the time and right opportunity (nurse).
Wish me luck, I'm on duty tomorrow!
First of all, it's not as stinky as i imagined.
But everywhere you look, there is something to be done! 3 hours pass and it feels like 10 minutes because you are running and bustling, and poking and nagmamarunong and monitoring and blah blah blah. It doesn't end.
Today i did my first extraction, and it was a success! Yay, one shot! Take note, it was on a baby!
Unfortunately, before i get a turn at extracting from the baby, there were already two tries. Resident and I were restraining the baby while co-intern took her shot. She missed initially, and then did a "search" - you don't remove the syringe, instead you poke around in order to find the vein. She didn't find it. Kawawa si baby. :o(
Resident reaches over, takes hold of the syringe and (violently) shows her how to search. I thought I might puke so i looked away while restraining. :o((( for baby.
After the two unsuccessful tries, resident asked me if i wanted a shot. I declined. She insisted. So came my one-shot! Yay for me! Yay for baby because she was done!
(later on her mother asked me angrily why there were so many holes on her arms. i told her to speak to the resident. i may not have agreed with the occurrences, but there is/should be a rule among doctor's: WALANG LAGLAGAN!)
I got lucky pala with my duty. A quick explanation: there's 5 of us interns from FEU, and duty is every three days. So that means 2-2-1. 2 on the first day, 2 on the second, 1 on the third.
Unfortunately (i thought), i'm the mag-isa. But fortunately, Bart (who rotated there right before me) told me to pick day 3. Thank god!
I'm the only one from FEU on day 3, but there are 2 other interns from Fatima also on day 3, and they're both cool people so yay yay yay!
As for the others, daladalawa nga sila per day, pero they're split between ward and NICU, so tig-isa lang sila technically. (Ako, since i'm alone, i got to pick, i picked ward muna. To get the busier one done first).
Short side-kwento: putang si Chimay jyn aragon, she told her friends na day two ang ok piliin, gaga sya! She's day two, and the resident on duty on day 2 is a nightmare daw! Hahahah you know what she did to Chimay? She *threw* a bunch of syringes at her! hahahaha. So her friends picked day 2 nga. Well, i'm not especially fond of her friends anyway, and someone has to be day 2...
Anyway, i spent about 12 hours there today. Dapat 8 hours lang, 7am-4pm, kaya lang i was color-coded. So i hung around and helped Leslie (the FEU intern on duty), since she was alone.
GRABE. Even with me there, there was an insurmountable amount of work. I did one discharge summary, which took me about 20 minutes. During those 20 minutes, I was interrupted thrice by patients, all asking for something different. (One of those interruptions was the angry mother of the tusok-tusok baby). There were 4 more discharge summaries to do.
I mentioned it to Leslie but I don't think it registered because she was running around monitoring and pushing meds. I helped her with both, but was constantly being interrupted by mothers and fathers saying the IV lines of their babies had stopped flowing.
Ok, this IV line, grabe. It's super hard to do an "insertion." It takes me about 5-10 minutes to look for a suitable vein. That's just me, because I don't like to insert or extract unless I'm sure that I see the vein and my hands are steady, and the baby is ready. Basta, it takes me a long time looking and poking before I even start. I've tried about 3 times, all failures.
I got stopped by 3 sets of parents for IV lines, and that was in the space of an hour ok. I tried to fix one IV line (and failed after 20 minutes of trying). The other two I told them to ask the nurse or the intern because it was 7pm, I was about to go home, and 3 hours late at that.
Buti nalang there's 3 of us on day 3. Because i would cry if i was left alone, no joke. Grabe! (How many times have I said grabe already?)
Ok another grabe. Grabe, how cute/sexy some of the student nurses/doctors/patient's fathers are! Pinaka madaming cute sa nurses. Why oh why are there so many cute nurses? I will try to flirt nga with some of them. I hope i find the time and right opportunity (nurse).
Wish me luck, I'm on duty tomorrow!