First day Of Respiratory Clincial (10/31)
Clinical Orientation!
Well this post is really late since I barely have anytime. My first day was just an ordinary day. I had to go to Wal Mart to buy a black pen because for some reason all my pens are blue. Why black ink? Because it is easier to copy on a machine. So I got to the hospital 20mins early because we had to show up 10mins early so I had about 10mins to find the Respiratory Therapist Department. I walked inside with a few of my fellow SRTs ( Student Respiratory Therapist) and we looked so nervous. We met up with the clinical instructor and she was really nice. We had a tour of the whole hospital. The hospital had a few floors and we bascially walked around and she told us where our equipment would be. On this one floor where a lot of patients had to come for recovery it was so busy. I saw Nurses running around and it seemed like there was a Code Blue everywhere we went. It seems that we came where the Nurses were in transition of RNs getting off and starting.
That was already something off of a movie. So I got to see everything except the Morgue. For some reason I wanted to see it but our instructor said we don’t have business there. I laughed because Obviously we don’t take ABGs or Incentive Spirometry to dead patients.
She let us out early since it was halloween and luckly we got off at 6pm just in time for trick or treating. I wore my RT uniform as a costume along with an isolation mask and goggles. It was pretty cool since everyone thought it was a fake costume but everything I had was the actual thing. Besides all this I have a midterm coming up on Monday and I’m pretty nervous. So I’ll have to end my RT blog right here and get back to studying!
November 20th, 2007 at 10:11 am
Wow. Didn’t seem too bad.