Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I feel smartness

So for the past two days i've been doing my hospital orientation at St.Pauls. Been having to get up at 5:30 :( sucks major ass.
First day we got our ID badges haha my picture looks sarcastic, thats the only way i can describe, im lookin down at the camera with a stupid half smirk on my face.
Basically im the youngest one except for this 21 year old girl and this 19ish? year old guy. Otherwise its all immigrants and bored house moms haha. I honestly thought us young ones would be rude and obnoxious, but those house moms FUCK, i wanna kill them. Theres one whos a redhead, and she basically has "bitch mom" stamped across her forehead. I just pictured her children hating her..... The other one looks exactlly like Hannahs mom, except pale and black hair. One exception, Hannahs mom is sweet. This lady acts like shes 17. all she does is gossip and say "like, omg".
Rage.
Then theres this old chinese lady, and we have bonded haha. I told her how i went to China, and shes been my BFF ever since. We eat lunch together with the 19 year old guy and this 55 year guy named Clifford haha.

Yesturday we did communication exercises. Basically they want us to be assertive but polite, so when faced with a problem, instead of saying YOU did this YOU should have....they want us to make it "I statements". Basically we were supposed to discourage at work gossip haha
So we did this exercise where two ppl would stand up, one was given a statement that has actually been reported, and the other was given the line "I feel ________ When you ________ In the future, i would like _____"
So Clifford gets up with this Gabriel dude and Gabriel is like "Damn, did you see that girl? She looks so hot in those tight pants".
Cliffords response was... "I feel awkward when you single out that girl.....in the future...don't mention this to me ....because.....i already know."
lololol u had to be there, the discussion leader basically fell on her ass laughing.

Today we had a safety presentation all morning, WHIMIS and such. We learned about how there are "normal" rooms, and "precaution" rooms haha
Also there are three types of precaution rooms
1. Contact: have to wear gloves and gowns cause physical contact with anything the patient has touched is potentially a no no
2. Drop: Have to wear gowns, paper masks, and goggles haha. Basically its patients who have a one meter radius around them where they could cough/spit/something gross on us haha
3. Air Born: these rooms im pumped for haha, cause theres only four in existence at RUH. You go into this little room and get air sealed in. Gotta put on a gown and this M95 masks that have to be airsealed around your mouth and nose. Then you get released into the room.
Trippy.

So she spent the morning scaring the crap out of me about how i will get sick if i dont wash my hands 10202746320746 times/hour.
she did a test where she gave us this lotion, then made us go wash our hands. Then she put us under a black light. The lotion glowed to show us how much we suck at washing our hands haha.

In the afternoon we got our scrubs, and when the leader, Tyler, asked me what i thought of them, i said i looked like a douchebag. Ever since then he thinks im super chill so he swears around me lots haha. just makin friends everyday ?? >_<

I like walking around the hospital in scrubs tho....for two reasons:
1. ppl smile at me like im a smart important nurse or something haha
2. the other grounds/maintanence guys...they r pretty ^_^

Then they took us upstairs to this old abandoned maternity ward.....fuck my life....it was the scariest thing ever. There was this one dark hallway where it was dark except for this grimy window lettin a little bit of light in, and there was old equipment piled to the ceiling with old wheelchairs laying around. It looked like a scene from this asian horror movie i watched.....
So i took pctures ^_^

Yeah, it was a long day. But i learned lots i suppose....like i could spread disease to those i know and love ....
sigh

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i can feel your smartness from here :)
-sproule