Clinical Day 4
At first there was nothing going on. I was assigned to the ER just to watch the whole department. They said right BEFORE holidays there is not much patients coming in. It was true because nothing was going on. I saw a few patients but it was just a very slow day. Half of my clinical was just walking around not doing anything because there was really nothing to do. Even the other RTs were just kicking back and doing simple rounds.
I was in the lounge and I was assigned to another RT because she was going to check on patients and give medications. This is where I had the most fun. I saw how suctioning works and how to do it. The patients seemed not so happy about it. listened to their breath sounds before and after and it was improved by a lot. I really don’t know anything about breath sounds but all I know was that I heard something that wasn’t suppose to be heard.
Then the RT taught me how to use a syringe. I did it once in one of the classes but that was it. So instead I got more experience doing it. I had so much fun on this clinical that I was willing to even stay for another hour. But since I wasn’t able to since I’m a student I stayed an extra half hour.
So I had a good clinical day!