Clinical Practice : Hospital

The second part of our clinical will take place in the hospital.
It is really different.
While in the nursing home you kept busy on taking care of the old people, in hospital, the patient comes from different ages.
In the nursing home, you are responsible for 10 residents, in hospital that I worked in, you can only have 6 max.

So, hospital is an interesting place to see many kind of people with their own problem.
There is a person who is morbidly obese, and when she need to be taken care of, it takes more than just 1-2 person to do it. This person weigh more than 400lbs (+/- 200kgs), and man, its BIG.
If the person is incontinent, means we have to deal with BM. And when it happens, it takes 5-6 person clean it up.
3 person each side, one side to hold, the other side to work on cleaning.
It is important to make sure that the patient is being well cleaned. All skin flaps, all parts needs to be clean and dry, to prevent skin break down and pressure ulcer from forming. It will consume a lot of wet wipes, and a protective pad to be use, and time.

There will also be the time where the patient yell at you, and you just need to understand that they are worry, and may have fear about their sickness and the family they left behind. So when they do, just note it, but don't put it inside your heart.

Anyway, I realize interesting thing about me is that I don't get bothered by BM (aka Bowel Movement or poop),I can't smell it, and I'm totally fine with it (to my surprise) but I gagged over the food left on a plate in the sink !

Me wearing Carribean Blue Scrubs, after clinical in the hospital.