2 more days at Casualty has passed and each day is very different. Yesterday was pretty quiet and besides taking vitals, observations, urinstix, pregnancytests we got to learn about ECG and got to take it on a patient.
Today we chose to work from 1pm - 7pm and today went by som much faster than yesterday since we had to very good male nurses to follow and that let us take both subcutane and intramuscular injections. We got to watch how they stitch on smaller wounds. I even got to assist on a smaller surgery where a male patient had gotten his upper lips cut and lost a few teeth from an assault when he got bitten by another male. He was bleeding a lot and the doctor had a hard time stopping the bleeding and ending up admitting the patient for observation. A few younger girls came in for injections and dressing of wounds and some loud screaming occured but the girls were calmed down by the staff. It gets easier every day being at the hospital, experiencing a lot and learning every day. I am still feeling a little uneasiness of being a group of 3 students at the same time in the ward, it feels like we are too many observing at once...just hoping that feeling will go away eventually.
Looking forward to tomorrow´s dayshift and hoping to see more interesting cases that I can learn a lot from.
Good night everyone!
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