4th Day

This is my fourth day in DLS as a trainee. It's not fun-filled dahil walang makukulit sa group. Lecture days until May 5. We already had exams yesterday on dosage calculations and a 100-item enumeration/fill-in-the-blanks exam on nursing procedures/skills (funda kung funda talaga!).

Just to review, here are some questions from the super enumeration-filled exam. I've provided the surest answers I got:

> complications of giving otic meds in its extreme condition=vertigo, dizziness ...

> things you should avoid in choosing intramuscular injection site=mole, birthmark, scar tissue,

> subcutaneous injection sites=lateral upper arms and thighs, fat pads on abdomen, upper hips

> reasons why you should rotate injection sites in giving insulin

> stock dose of potassium chloride = 40mL/20mL

> the best injection site for emaciated and elderly patients

> the best injection site for 7 months old and above = ventrogluteal

> the best position when instilling nasal meds

> indications for nasogastric tube insertion

> indications for indwelling catheter

> examples of meds for treating glaucoma = beta blockers and NSAIDS

> reasons for doing tracheostomy care

> reasons for doing suctioning

I find this one question so mind-boggling: give 6 reasons why you have to fill the urinary catheter balloon with 10mL of PNSS... I mean, why does it have to be 6 reasons? I can only give 2 sensible answers, 4 are just wild guess. In the book, there are only 2 reasons. Maybe I should ask Mr. JP about it. If only we're allowed to save the presentation in our personal USB's.

Exam at DLSSTIMC

Naubos ang tinta ng ballpen kong blue sa haba ng exam. 300 items lahat. 100 multiple choice. 50 enumerations, 25 drug calculations, 50 points essay, 25 unit conversion, 10 true or false, and 50 matching type. I have 2 blanks in enumeration and 200+ unsure answers. Goodluck. That was yesterday afternoon. I had to leave my training at MVMC to give way to this exam kase pre-employment ito. Sana I would get through kase my saving's running dry na. I don't want to ask money from my Dad. Nahihiya na ako especially now that he's jobless. This is crisis. Buti na lang may lovelife kami pareho kundi mas miserable ang mundo kapag walang partner. Balanse pa naman kahit papano ang buhay. Good life pa rin. Comfortable.

Fro now, masasabi ko na super enjoy ako sa training days ko sa MVMC. Alive na alive ang batch to the point na minsan nasasaway na kami dahil sa ingay namin. Next week, deployment na namin sa designated areas. Ayoko na sa ICU and OR. Sana sa Ward na lang ako ilagay. Katakot eh. Baka manginig lang ako pag nag-serve ng gloves at instruments habang nakatingin ang buong surgical team sa kin tulad ng previous experience ko sa MCGH.