Among those amazing new things I'm learning to do without looking scared and shocked:
- Check vitals on sleeping, awake and angry kids
- Monitor vital signs with monitors, check the monitors and get the monitors to shut up.
- Set up a room for a new admission (which means hunting for supplies).
- Ask doctors questions. I totally embarrassed a resident by calling him "Doctor Lee" instead of by Joe. He started laughing at me. I think that was hazing. :)
- Check on beeping in rooms. There is a preposterous amount of noise in hospitals.
- Hold down a kid to put an IV in. If you've ever noticed a kid being obstinate about something like eating green beans, multiply that by a hundred and you're getting a little close to how pissed they are about getting stuck.
- Identified problems -- like low BPs, weird lung sounds and off-kilter input-output (not peeing out most of what's going in).
- Spiked IV bags.
- Given additional fluids through IVs.
- Woken up a sleeping doctor to update them and ask for orders.
I love it. I really love it.
How weird is it that I'm thinking about getting a pediatric stethoscope? I already found an orange one line... my how a wishlist can change!
1 comment:
You should practice on NG. She's terrible at the Dr's office :(
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