The One with the Happy House Visit.

man, this week's been hectic for most of us here at weloveimu!!

(most of us, i mean everyone except the food OO's ;p meaning marcus and ty hehe)

what with the sem 2's Nursing Week hospital visits, the new juniors having their orientation officially started, running around with icebreakers and treasure hunt along with irritating uncouth unruely bad-mannered offensive annoying station sap-yi masters unavoidable accidents =p we've been really swamped this past week.

but lets just focus on nursing week shall we? ;p a post on the devils orientation will come...in time or maybe not

anyway, nursing week is a week long "break" for the semester 2 students to visit 2 hospitals in Negeri 9 working with IMU to get a hands on experience on what teamwork means between nurses, sisters and the hospital staff.

visiting Port Dickson and Tunku Jaafar Hospital was no easy feat, as Alvin found out. Waking at 6am only to realise the bus leaves at 6.15 proved to Alvin that he could arrive in school in 5 minutes TOPS from the time he wakes to the time he parks his car haha

5 minutes. unbelievable? believe it.

freaking posers...isn't that kairou in the middle? hehe :D

upon arrival, and after a "SHORT" briefing by the matron of each hospital, you are then ushered to your respective wards which included male and female multidisciplinary wards, surgical or medical wards, pediatric, Ob-Gyn wards etc.

and then your day involves following your attending nurse around to watch them perform their duties as well as (if you're lucky) help them. at this point i would like to stress how unlucky i am lucky some of my batchmates were =) a few of them got to witness the birth of a child, help in dressing the wounds of a patient and even visit an operating theatre.

surgical mask worn by...surgeons. you think?

side story here, by now im thinking most likely everyone knows that our beloved HANNyee can't speak Bahasa Melayu to save her life only speaks a lil bit of BM..and on her hospital visit, she came along a sign which read "rumah mayat"

HAPPY HOUSE!

but with her limited adequate knowledge on BM, she only understood the word 'rumah'. a dear friend of hers told her that the word 'mayat' meant 'happy', making her translate the whole meaning into "happy house". imagine her surprise entering that room (for those who don't understand it, 'rumah mayat' is the mortuary) thinking of a happy room, with maybe balloons and colourful walls hehe only to find...well here's the part your imagination comes into play

so weird to see this sign in a hospital, isn it? hehe =)

PD hospital is also now a 'baby-friendly' hospital fyi :)

BABY FRIENDLY "practising all 10 steps to successful breastfeeding". what kind of 'friendly' do i need to be to practise successful breastfondling?

something really interestin though, in the male multidisciplinary wards, there're special cell rooms where they keep injured convicts

they keep them handcuffed to the beds, in a prison-like-jail, just behind the , oh-so-deceiving room door.

thing is, search the ENTIRE female multidisp ward, and you won't even SEE a door that says cell room, let alone real cells. WHY SO SEXIST, I ASK YOU?!

are we, men, less trustworthy?! shouldn't we ALL have equal rights? haven't the feminine society been fighting for impartiality all this while?! AND NOW THEY DON'T HAVE CELL ROOM?! unfair!! lets start a riot right after the riots for elections are over to right this wrong ;p

Reminders that tell us to always practise the 7 ass moves S moves in managing a patient. smile, greet, fast, sensitive, polite, touch and smart. i bet marcus does number 6 well

then just when we were about to leave, we were all given a little test to see how good our handwashing skills were. they pour some kinda artificial "bacteria" on our hands, little more than fluorescent orange paint to be honest...hehe :D

we washed our hands, then one by one put our hands under a UV light (SO FREAKING COOL BTW, yes yes i know im jakun) to see if there were still trace marks of the "bacteria" left.

then yes..we were graded...with this little piece of paper. satisfactory, fair or unsatisfactory.

and here's my Alvin's grade... 8-)

tsk tsk alvin..only fair? heh heh

we even got to try on plastic bags...pfftt okay fine, they're actually Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) meant for use in the hospital so you don't contract OR bring in any extra diseases in addition to the ones already being suffered by the patient hehe

staff nurse rozaidah teaching us the reasons for proper usage of surgical masks

evidently, we had other reasons on our minds for wearing them

and finally, after putting on ALL the available PPE; gloves, mask and body cover

we looked like we should be selling pork at a market ....

all in all, nursing week was really an eye-opener with alot of new experiences enriching our lives as medical students, making our passion for medicine burn all the more now.

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bahh who'm i kidding? this was the highlight of nursing week for me : finding an illustration that looked like a familiar face here at weloveimu

GUESS WHO? :D :D :D :D :D :D and look!!! it even says its "a service to the community" by posting this pic! :D

p/s. only kidding =) nursing week was really good in my truthfully brutally honest opinion. sure, there were some sketchy moments but overall, choosing to wake up at 4am to get ready didn't go unrewarded and definitely not regrettable (: