3rd week

Today is the last day of Oct ald!! time realy flies and 2009 is coming to an end soon!

3rd week of geron posting down!!! Left with next week n i'm DONE!!!

I dislike the staffs in my room that i'm assigned to, EXCEPT for a few that is friendly and approachable.. I'm so envious of my friends for having nice n friendly staffs in their assigned rooms.. haizzz =(

Presented my case to CI M ald.. i didnt turned out good as expected, cos it's a last min work.. watever! but i need to find out certain things abt my pt over this weekend and get back to her~

PRCP schedule still not out yet.. left with 1 month plus and PRCP starts!!! Doris MF Chan is soo inefficient!!

Cant wait for next week to end!!!!

mid-week

Now i'm e middle of 2nd week.. waiting for weekends n paycheck to come!!

Ytd I finally get to insert NGT into the patient for gastric aspiration plus intermittent suctioning of his gastric contents.. He's very comfortable and cooperative when I was inserting the NGT. But then he vomited quite a lot.. and it's normal for ppl like him to puke.. I cant stand ppl vomit in front of me, i felt like gagging, but luckily got CI M.. And this is my 1st time inserting it into a LIVE pt! It's way way smoother than inserting into the sch dummy..

Surprisingly CI M is very nice, I shall not judge the books by its cover.. so she gave me feedback etc.. My perception towards her had changed..

Hopefully today can get to practice more skills! Tmr on morning shift, need to get up @ 5am!! =(

Need to prepare myself 4 work later.. ciao!

1st week

First week was ok.. still prefer w45.. staffs r better back @ 45.. my room got 1 super CAL nurse~ (CAL=chao ah lian), her mouth are full of vulgarities n talk damn bloody loud in front of pt.. pass report also like want to fight like tat... She even say CB in e cubicle.. wah lao eh~~ but she is quite efficient in her work, surprisingly! that's e good point abt her.. I dont wish to go there for my PRCP in Dec! *keep fingers X!*

I dont like the main CI in e ward.. She is very particular in pre-documentation and I cant help my friend to chart down things.. but i dont really care, i'll still do it when she's not around! Took 3 cases on wed.. the staff nurse allowed me to write reports.. I hope to write more next week for my next cubicle.. The worst thing abt e ward is we have to share stetoscope n Sp02 machine for soo many cubicles! WTH!!! and I cant wear Crocs to work, cos the sister dont like!!


HSE posting was boring! we played with e old ppl there, time passed super slow.. staffs there are ok.. felt like I'm going back to IMH..

Hope that the next 3 weeks will BREEZE FAST!

50th post

Will update during e weekends!

Wedding reception pics..finally~

The wedding pics are here, like FINALLY!!!! I just upload the nicer ones, unglam ones will keep to myself.. more will be uploaded soon once i received it from the Indian Ocean.. i guess.. =)

Before the wedding:

On bus 168 otw to Woodlands Regional Interchange

XL and me

Shark and XL

In the wedding:

Us with the bride and groom plus Mr Bernard

Me, Shark, XL, Hidayah

Grp pic..

After the wedding:

Class pic with Ms Jenny

ED outing~

Went out with Regina and Mo Phoung ytd to Bugis as planned. Ate Swensens @ Bugis, the service there sucks, but we enjoyed by cracking jokes etc... ate a set consisted of a main course, drink, soup of e day, and a small cup of ice-cream!!! 3 of us cost $36.. and inclusive of 30% discount.. cheap~~ =D Den we made our way down to Bugis street n GO SHOPPING!!!!!!! That's e best thing that I enjoyed! Shiok!!! Bought a blazer upstairs, nice! But I still want to own a light denim kind of blazer also.. hahah!! Leave it for next time!! Den both of them bought tops from Kamy, nice colors n designs.. how I wished i'm smaller sized.. so I can fit into them.. =(..

We later went back to Parco, and sat down n ate J.Co donuts!!! YUMMY!!!!*thumbs up*. And Regina n me bought THEBODYSHOP's latest Spa wisdom Africa set @ $19.90 each.. but have yet to use it~ haha.. =)

Me & Regina

Me & MP

US!!

1st wedding reception!

Attended my classmate, Kat's wedding reception today.. Met up with Shark and XL at Bedok Inter and we took bus 168 all the way to Woodlands Regional Interchange and took feeder bus to her place. We literally count the number of bustops to her place cos it's my first time in Woodlands.. like me going to a foreign country.. haha~ Luckily still got chance to see her b4 she went over to her groom's place.. Mr Bernard and Ms Jenny attended the wedding reception.. We sat down, eat and chit chat for a couple of hours before we left.. Ms Jenny sent us back to Bedok Inter, den I accompanied Shark to buy her OT slipper..

Will upload once I got e pics.. and this will like take FOREVER~

MOT cont..

Last day in MOT - during lunchtime..

Updates for the next 3 days of my MOT posting..

Day 3: GS theatre (General surgery) Cases: 3

Guess wat? we meet a cute and friendly anaesthetist.. He looked like Dr Lam (Bio science lecturer).. Initially I and my friend, Trisa went to approach the AU nurse about the anaesthetic drugs, since the CI wanted us to go and find out.. so she asked us to ask the anaesthetist himself instead, cos she said that he is a very nice doctor.. and he is nice indeed!! He even asked us whether he need to explain the MOA of each drugs a not.. we said dont need lah.. cos we only want to know wat are the common types of anaesthetic drugs used etc.. The surgeon also very nice. surprisingly! He even asked us to come over to take a look at the nerves, veins and arteries.. damn cool lah!!!!!

Day 4: Colorectal surgery Cases: 5

Finally got to scrub in!!! Mine is a very simple and fast procedure.. and the surgery is not 100% sterile.. even though is not 100% sterile, we also must not breach sterility. The case that I scrubbed in was transanal excision of anal polyp, which the surgeon will cut off the excess skin at the anus and send it for histology test.. I scrubbed in with a SSN.. she is very nice and teach me how to arrange the instuments, how to pass instruments to the surgeon etc.. The procedure took about 15mins, and after the procedure is done, the scrub nurse cleanse the wound with Centrimide. I also decontaminate the surgical instruments with her and later followed her to despatch the specimen for histology.. The specimen is soaked with Formaline (Formaldehyde), it is used to preserve the tissue so it will not decay. It's a good experience though!!

Day 5: ENT / Plastic surgery.. Cases: 2

Actually got 3 cases, but we dont get to see the 1st case cos the patient's not coming for surgery cos of her son's exam.. she is scheduled today to remove her breast implant.. haizzzz...
The ENT / plastic surgeon is also very nice.. he's the head & senior consultant.. he even recognised us as nursing students~~


And so.......Overall, for me, OT posting is more interesting compared to ED, can learn and observe a lot of things and the OT stuffs are nicer den the ED ones.. Now left Geron which is like 4 LONG weeks!!! Haizzzzzzz... Cant wait to go BKK in Nov!!

So that's abt all!