Oh, such fun! I absolutely LOVE taking part in clinical skills in university. Last day we spent doing drug administration, injections, IV fluids, peg feeding, O2/nebulisers and catheterisation. Everything was great to learn, along with laughs and me making people feel old... Since we learnt all this new stuff I thought I would do a 10 things I learnt. (Heads up, this will be gross etc since we are talking about nursing skills and sensitive procedures).
1. Apparently, putting the IV bag higher will not increase the flow speed... I'm not sure I fully believe this
2. You do sub cut injections at a 45 degree angle (may seem obvious but I was using pre-loaded syringes which you injected at a 90 degree angle)
3. Its alright to question prescriptions and go and see who prescribed what to double check they haven't made a mistake
4. Kids can have bags of feed in a special bag so they can get the food they need to but not miss school
5. You get oxygen masks which have space for a dummy (que for the awwsss)
6. You get inhalers with bears printed on them (que for more awwwwsss)
7. A lot of guys and maybe some girls think that the female genitalia has only 2 orifices
8. You can catheterize a patient in the wrong orifice and not know until urine doesn't come back
9. You pull the skin while doing an inter-muscular injection so that when you remove the needle flesh then goes over the route of the needle and doesn't allow the drug to rise to the surface
10. Generally, by pinching the skin you are unable to get into the muscle when doing a sub cut injection
Right, so there are my 10 things I learnt in skills, it was full of jargon I'm afraid so I apologise if you weren't feeling it because it was rather clinical. Been a ball for me though, have a good week ahead, adios xx
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