Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Took in-charge yesterday, and it was by-far the most busiest, heart-thumping day i had at work. Three children chose yesterday to have their blood pressures either unreadable or just too abnormally low or high. One child took so much time, her Bp plunged way down (at one point all of us four nurses covering the A side were attending to her, on top of the 4 doctors around her too - she was sent to HD in the end after she was stable to get the proper treatment/care)..
For the other two infants, after several attempts in taking their Bp, and still getting low results we called in the on-call doctors to review.. and guess what, WHEN the doctors are around the dinamap chooses to work fine and their Bps end up okay.

Furthermore on top of all that stress and adrenaline pumping issues , a MSW came to see my NAI patient and took both my patient and the casenotes down. I knew she was gonna come to see my patient,but i wasn't told that she will take them down to her office for the interview. Apperently she came at the time when we were occupied/running around the ward and told our ward clerk (who might have forgotton to tell me and by then have already gone home)
The scare i had when on top of all the Bp issues, i found that both my patient and her casenotes are nowhere to be found..
After much searching, waiting and randomly dialling a number out of our long list of MSW's names and numbers (none of us had managed to catch the MSW's name, by 6pm the patient had already came back without the casenotes - asked where she went etc and when her casenotes were still not back, i started calling the MSWs), found out that the casenotes were indeed with her and she was still not done with interviewing the patient's parents. Seriously.
If her casenotes went really missing, i would be the one with the plunging low Bp.

Enjoyed the teamwork and the people i was working with tho'. At least they made the day better and my seniors were competent enough with the knowledge and the experience when our patients' Bps went funny.

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