It's really flattering when your boss asks you to take her blood when there are many others around to potentially do it, too.
Thanks for the trust, boss. Also thank God I got it in one stick and filling the tube barely took a few seconds.
I was a total vampire on the last call.
I poked no less than 15 babies. Maybe even over twenty, I'm not so sure myself. Some of them were for three tubes of blood (Day 1 Jaundice workup, ya know what I'm saying?). After a while you just stop counting and just watch the blood drip, drip, drip...
I'm pretty good at poking babies by now. My success rate at intravenous cannulation of babies is now once in an average of 3 sticks- this of course includes harder sticks. Okay, maybe it's 4 sticks. Or more. But this hospital has a policy of only 2 unsuccessful trials before asking for help.
I'm glad to say that for older paeds cases, I usually get it done within 1.5 sticks (yes including those who struggle like mad- so that's an achievement). Usually just 1 stick for non-neonates; veins are more easy in normal-sized children. Cherubic ones are another matter entirely >.<
Also, who the heck keeps track of their IV cannulation success rates?!
Me.
I do.
It's for self-improvement purposes.
The post I uploaded earlier did help!
I'm pretty sure I had a better idea for my post today but I forgot. Too much sleep during the off-day will do that to you.
Last few calls ago, I had the opportunity to hold an ultrasound probe and perform a bedside echocardiogram, thanks to Cute MO (YES I KNOW). I didn't even ask for it; he just told me to do it and as I asked "Are you serious?!" he replied with "It's easy, just point the probe and if you see something, you're doing it right." And he gave his trademark cute chuckle after saying that. And yes, he talked and guided me through the entire thing as I was clueless; though I knew what I was looking for, more or less, because I watched a lot of my bosses do it, and one of them even showed me in detail what to look for once- he will forever be one of my favourite MOs and will probably make a great specialist and lecturer in the near future.
But Cute MO did say I was good and suggested that it may be the start of my career as a cardiologist. We both laughed at that (I did most of the laughing, he just cute-chuckled with me).
See, not only are my MOs cute, they're also really encouraging and helpful.
I took photos of my first echo snaps. Baby's First Echo!
Literally, because that baby had his first echo done then. Hehe.
*****
My biggest achievement has got to be the fact that I have been able to gain weight during the entirety of this posting. I'm not even kidding. I gained like 4 kgs- that's like 1 kg per month!
And my final assessment is coming up soooooonnnnnn
I should be studying!
Thanks for the trust, boss. Also thank God I got it in one stick and filling the tube barely took a few seconds.
*****
I was a total vampire on the last call.
I poked no less than 15 babies. Maybe even over twenty, I'm not so sure myself. Some of them were for three tubes of blood (Day 1 Jaundice workup, ya know what I'm saying?). After a while you just stop counting and just watch the blood drip, drip, drip...
I'm pretty good at poking babies by now. My success rate at intravenous cannulation of babies is now once in an average of 3 sticks- this of course includes harder sticks. Okay, maybe it's 4 sticks. Or more. But this hospital has a policy of only 2 unsuccessful trials before asking for help.
I'm glad to say that for older paeds cases, I usually get it done within 1.5 sticks (yes including those who struggle like mad- so that's an achievement). Usually just 1 stick for non-neonates; veins are more easy in normal-sized children. Cherubic ones are another matter entirely >.<
Also, who the heck keeps track of their IV cannulation success rates?!
Me.
I do.
It's for self-improvement purposes.
The post I uploaded earlier did help!
I'm pretty sure I had a better idea for my post today but I forgot. Too much sleep during the off-day will do that to you.
*****
Last few calls ago, I had the opportunity to hold an ultrasound probe and perform a bedside echocardiogram, thanks to Cute MO (YES I KNOW). I didn't even ask for it; he just told me to do it and as I asked "Are you serious?!" he replied with "It's easy, just point the probe and if you see something, you're doing it right." And he gave his trademark cute chuckle after saying that. And yes, he talked and guided me through the entire thing as I was clueless; though I knew what I was looking for, more or less, because I watched a lot of my bosses do it, and one of them even showed me in detail what to look for once- he will forever be one of my favourite MOs and will probably make a great specialist and lecturer in the near future.
But Cute MO did say I was good and suggested that it may be the start of my career as a cardiologist. We both laughed at that (I did most of the laughing, he just cute-chuckled with me).
See, not only are my MOs cute, they're also really encouraging and helpful.
I took photos of my first echo snaps. Baby's First Echo!
Literally, because that baby had his first echo done then. Hehe.
*****
My biggest achievement has got to be the fact that I have been able to gain weight during the entirety of this posting. I'm not even kidding. I gained like 4 kgs- that's like 1 kg per month!
And my final assessment is coming up soooooonnnnnn
I should be studying!
So those are my random train of thoughts for this post.
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