What’s that at the end of the tunnel? A light! Forsouthe!

Well maybe not at the *end* of the tunnel but somewhere on the tunnel itself is a skylight. I’ve just spent two days at uni learning nursing skills, which are crucial to my practice and learning!! The skills I learnt were fun and funky all in one - temperature, blood pressure, pulse, respiration, interview skills, manual handling (which I found far too amusing when I volunteered to be turned over) and hand washing. It was nice to finally get through to the lecturers that the constant references to "NURSES" was what got up collectively the BMID students noses, rather than the course itself.

And to top the day off, today I separately got not 1, but TWO new shiny follow throughs. That means that I have 2 women already! One is 26 weeks and the other is due in early July. Oh bugger, that means both are the same time (distance?) along! Oonohz! Anyway, one is L and the other is J, and it’s very exciting to have people who say yes to me.

In other news, you can see from my lovely shiny ticker that I am off on my placement is a month and a bit. I have a few things I need to get done still:

  • shirts x2
  • pants x2
  • bra
  • immunisations
  • police check
  • senior first aid certificate
  • shoes x1 black
  • badge
  • portfolio arranged
My placement may be… dun dun DAH… in Port Augusta! Yep, ME, traipsing 3 hours away for a placement. I am excited and terrified at the same time, as it’s away from home for two weeks and in a town I’ve never been to doing stuff I’ve not yet learned how to do (respirations on a baby, I’m looking at you!). And yet I’m excited because I’ll get my hands *mwahahahahahaha* on bumps and babies.

Posted: April 18, 2007

2 Comments »

  1. It’s great to see you so enthused about it all, it gives me hope that there will be many more happy willing and available midwives available in the not-too-distant future! Oh, and never fear, your two women are about 2-3 weeks apart :-) I’m 24.5 weeks and due 6th august so the 26 weeks lady will be in mid-late july not early .

    Comment by Ness — April 19, 2007 @ 9:25 pm

  2. One of the best placements I ever had was one where I was off in the country - it is a fantastic experience, one that many of my fellow students wouldn’t take because it was too far away. You get to do a lot more in the country…

    Comment by Amanda — April 20, 2007 @ 6:57 am

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