First thoughts when i saw the ward..
~ A place where you treat wounded soldiers in a war
~ An aftermath of a disaster??
~ I stepped into Iraq??
The things there and the settings are so last century times..
Like Florence Nightingale's time??
It was nothing like what i ever expected or imagined
The staff?
They just couldn't care less..
First instant, MO checked a patient's BP and it turns out 198/100 or something like that.. She askes for Amlodopine stat and we went to ask the medication nurse for it and she says she'll give later..
Half and hour or 1 hour later, still no sign of her.
MO asks again and still no sign.. I rechecked the BP and got 180/100..
Finally i don't even know if she served the amlodipine.. sigh
Second~
A patient's branula was removed by my friend and he bleeds profusely!
Covers it with a thick layer of gauze and guess what!?
I went to see what my friend was doing with the patient, and it feels like I'm in Grey's ANatomy..
Seeing a pool of blood on the bed and my friend holding the patient's hand with a bloody glove,
was stunned for a moment and thought it came out of his pampers but no, it was from his arm!!!
A small hole from removing the branula caused SO much BLOOD!??
The worse thing was when the staff nurse came, she just stunned at the sight just as I was and...
Goes to the other side and checked the platelet transfusion into the other hand.. And then went away to get heparin saline to flush that PVL and then just walked away and left us all staring at her..
She could have at least helped to bring some more gauze or tell us to apply pressure on it..
She just didn't do anything to help!
I really had compassion on the patients there.. They are really being illtreated there like they're some animals.. They looked so helpless and it didn't look like anyone could get any better there..
I felt like I'm going on a missionary trip.. This would be a really good experience for me before (*IF) God would call me to the missions field..
Well, whatever happens this week I will take it as a good training and preparation for whatever.
=)
In the darkness, there is YOUR light, Lord.
Your light shines when all else fades <3
