Ok, so despite a huge backlog of posts that I need to write about (which i probably won't get around to because I'm going to be one biz-ay beever this summer, I decided I'd write about my most current experience, Clinical Placement.
Day 1:
6AM:
Dear diary. Woke up preemptively. I guess its one of those days where you get excited about something and you just wake up. I went to bed at like 12 AM (actually its more like 1AM since a large wind gust smacked the side of the house and i suddenly remembered i had washing on the line...
I lost several pairs of undies that day and a pair of jeans. May god rest their seams.
8AM
Dear diary, I'm currently on the train. Bought a 14 day travel pass from North Sydney to Liverpool which cost about $24. Not bad actually, makes quite a saving me thinks. Anyway so I'm on the train now and I'm reading through my clinical diaries to make sure i know what im doing... So much i don't know or can't remember from last semester... Actually an entire semester is a long time to wait between learning and actually applying.
8:28AM
OMG, i just got a call from Tom. It turns out that the hospital was expecting all of us at 8AM not 10, as was listed on our placement information sheets. SO MUCH FAIL. its good that i left earlier than i would have. I should probably arrive at around 9:30AM
9:30AM
Wow i must be getting better at the whole ETA thing. Im usually shit.
anyway I'm now wandering around Liverpool hospital looking for my facilitator. Evelyn her name is.
10AM
Well i found her and have been sitting around for a while waiting for the other people on clinical with me. Everyone thought it was 10AM.
Met someone doing the Exercise sport science/Masters of Nursing degree. Gemma. yeah we sat next to each other and made a little small talk. It was a bit awkward.
11AM
finally finished with all the orientation and I'm now on the wards. Its a renal failure ward. I'm on with a girl called... Jachel? i think... god im bad at names. yeah and Tom and a girl called lucy are also on the same ward, but they're on the AM shift. I'm gonna be on the PM shift (starts 1pm) at least for this week.
8:30PM
wow that was a tiring day. I noticed that a lot of the nurses seemed a little dead. Now i understand why. I ended up falling asleep on the train. woke up at redfern, got of at central and changed to the north shore line. Got to north sydney and bought myself a boost and then walked home, not before stopping at EB games and browsing through games for my DS, just to look at titles and stuff.
And thats all for now. I have some studying to do for my clinical placement. Turns out there's preparatory work for each placement. Also need to work out a way of doing more shifts in the three weeks so i can be done with my placement and can move on to my work experience in microbiology.
-Charles
