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Monday, March 17th, 2008

neuro ward thoughts, & the like.

^ Circle of Willis. Picture credits to webanatomy.net

You can access my site too @ a g33kier url btw : D kaori-lolita.is-a-geek.net

pretty flowers @ SGH(Singapore General Hospital): these are all handmade flowers with a balloon in the middle, written with well wishes from people to the patients! really pretty and colourful, you gotta see it for yourself! :3 prettiness~

14 march 2008 (last day of clinical attachment @ the neuro ward):

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0530am while i leave for work. the sky is dark, the weather is really cold, there are no cars nor buses, i see no people except myself :/

With Hafidz - got to know this great guy through attachment! see ya arnd dude and thanks for all the help

some picssss from awhile agooo. anatomy & physiology lab class 8D

& because I {heart} Sex Pot ReVeNGe

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♥ The H o l i d a y s ARE HERE~!!! Yezzz to a hikkikomori lifestyle again. 8D I’m going to hikki as much as I can nao, because I will not have the chance to do so in about 1.5years time. Lol.

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I’d love to go into my reflections for my clinical attachment @ the neuro ward in detail but i feels uncomfy typing it in a public blog so in point form i shall share some : D

• I ♥ the ward and most of the staff. they’re so awesome and helpful.
• I ♥ my lecturer ms sandra — she’s so supportive, nice, kind, and guided us a lot. It was really a wonderful happy learning experience to have her be with us throughout these 2 weeks.
• I got to see a lumbar puncture being done..! If you’re lazy to read the link, basically the neurologist inserts a big needle into L3-L4 (nothing above L2, because L2 is where your spine ends and you don’t want the patient to be paralysed) and extracts the CSF(cerebrospinal fluid) out and send it for various culture and lab tests to see if the patient has meningitis. Hopefully not, because meningitis is extremely hard to cure. My classmate was cringing all the way while we observed the procedure, because it looked really painful, and the poor patient was crying. I pray that the patient will be okay.
• I learned a lot on stroke and parkinson’s disease, and its relation to the brain
• Basically most of the patients in the neuro ward had stroke/parkinson’s disease and the various complications
• I got to perform oropharyngeal suctioning on a real patient for the first time!
• I saw an x-ray of a patient with tumor in his brain. Huge tumor is huge. It occupied 1/4 of the brain… O___O;;
• During my case study presentation, 2 nursing lecturers from Germany were present! Got to talk to them a little after my presentation, it was awesome. Thank goodness I remembered some german like “Guten Tag!” xD Got to know from them that I could go germany for overseas attachment during my final year.. wantz! Also talked to them about my german bands fandom lolol! Tokio Hotel xD Their expression was kinda “I knew it! tokio hotel! lol!” ahah.
• Most of the patients needed bed bath/trolley bath/commode/diapers/urosheath due to stroke –> immobility –> extremely tough to position them and clean them, since they cant move half of their body T_T
• Most of them needed nasogastric tube feeding too, or having people to feed them due to stroke yet again. ahh. poor things.
• So yes, other than the usual parameters taking, report taking, administration of medication, i did a lot of bed baths, trolley baths, commode shower, bed changing, diaper changing, saved measured urine, feeding, off plugs, nasogastric tube feeding.. like, out of 11 beds in the 2 rooms i was in, all 11 needed all these. That’s a lot compared to the previous ward I was in, but the current ward’s staff are a lot lot nicer and much more helpful.
• It was really tiring, i think i have muscles already, since men are heavy and they get heavier when one side of the body is immobile — but fulfilling because I know I made them feel a lot better. Like what one of my lecturers once said, “The best thing you can give a patient is a shower” because nobody likes to feel dirty. It promotes a sense of self-worth. Really sad that most of them are waiting admissions to nursing homes, because its too tough for their famiy members to take care of them.
• But anyway the above tasks I mentioned are roles done by juniors (enrolled nurses or students). You always have to learn from the bottom yes? When I graduate as a staff nurse, roles performed would be more of administration of medication, report writings, injections, wound dressings and such.
• I love the patients. Really glad that some of them that I took care of, are getting better and discharging soon. But it’s extremely sad that most of them are stuck in the hospital, because they have no family/their family’s pushing around responsibilities, and are awaiting admission to a home. :/ Cases like these.. are really very sad. But for the patients who have supportive families, its really heartwarming to see it. ^_^ All the patients were really nice and grateful to me, kept thanking me and offered me fruits and stuff. It makes me feel really appreciated. ^_^ Sames goes to their relatives too ne.
• & Srsly, I have muscles already!! dear asked me to flex my arms a little just now, and lol, muscles!!! O_O uwaa. Strong desu. Nurses are strong people! (literally)