Tuesday, May 08, 2007
Today Nursing skills lesson was pretty interesting. Today I had 4 hours of NSL. But thank God, the module leader was kind enough to break it into 2 lessons in a day. In the morning, at 8-10am and afternooon at 4-6pm. My dear Anisah did not attend the morning lesson. Shermine and I were like " Hey, where is she ar?" I thought she overslept.So back to the NSL, lesson, our morning lesson was about venipuncture. Means, setting a plug in the vein or drawing blood to be filled, to be sent for specimen to the lab.. Woohoo.Excuse me! Its scary ok. We practiced on the so called " fake" arm and gosh, the veins are so easily to be detected. Imagine doing it on an old aged patient, I think you gonna have difficult time..Anyway, I was fine but practice is what I always needed. I guess, after few practice, I will be able to handle things.At 4pm lesson, we had to be in the Sims lab. Basically STIMULATION lab is situated at level 5. The setting is exactly like an ICU or Operating Theater. There is a manikin which is able to be in pain, he have pulse, temperature and he is exactly just like a normal man. The only thing he cant do is talk to u la. But he can die if you did not give the appropriate medications or etc. All those essential things are controlled by the lecturer. They have a room which they controlled this via a computer. Cool isn't it.. Yeah!So, we have to be splited up into groups of four and I was with Shermine, Anisah and Vanessa. I was trembling! And guess what, I was tying to calm myself down by eating a sweet! Vanessa was kind enough to say to me, dont "kan choeng"..Ok. our turn was last and guess what! I GAVE THE WRONG INTRAVENOUS SOLUTION TO THE PATIENT! I only realised it when Ms Lee pointed to me the mistake. Its suppose to be Normal Saline 0.9% but I gave Hartmanns! I was like " what!"Ok. I learnt my mistake. No matter what! Relax and Relax. Chao guys!