Ungratefulness

12th January (Monday) - Ohhh, I can't take it anymore, I seriously can't take it anymore. I know I've been rambling about this for a while now but this one really takes the cake. The day started off like normal enough, I managed to get a few ladies walking about since it's already their 3rd post-op day. No more excuse for them to stay in bed, sorry. I managed to convince one to move about, and she did, she also managed to take her food well, so I finally off her drip at the last pint. At last, the past few days she had been asking me to remove it but she's only been taking Milo, which I said to her it's not enough. Taking one cup of Milo doesn't mean you're fit to get off the drip. But since today she took oats, bread and water, I'm happy enough to do so. Especially when she took a bowl of porridge for lunch. Good to see up and about. Now, if only I can get the other girl to walk...
Today I did an admission for an angio case. Once done, a baby came in. Then everyone was like, "Kiddo, your big brother's patient is here." Big brother? I don't remember having any prof being called my big brother. Oh, OH. OH HELL NO. I knew who it is. There's only one person who is my 'big bro' , and  I don't recommend following him unless you are 120% sure you know what you are doing. Sigh, yep, he wants his blood again. Urgh, he's a paediatric genetic expert, so every specimen bottles he wants are super weird ones that you don't usually keep in the ward. DNA, chromosome, genetic...really weird ones that involves special bottles. Since I already followed him twice, I more or less got his style. So I was shoved to the front line. Alright then, who am I to complain? I took the old folder and read the specimen he needed, prepared the bottles and butterfly needle, with the tube holder. You see, he is the type that wants you to know what you are doing. If you don't know what you are doing, he'll chase you out, as he did to one girl whom I am with during my first time, when I was in my lowly 3rd month.
Big mistake. A senior girl did the admission, so I actually forgotten about the Emla cream with the urine specimen bag. Guess who get shot. ME. Always me. At leasr prof didn't explode like last time, but he advised me there's no need to wait for him, that whoever is doing the admission should straightaway apply the cream onto the child. FOR GOD'S SAKE, I WAS ATTENDING THE ANGIO PATIENT AT THAT TIME, AND YET I STILL GOT THE BLAME FOR NOT APPLYING THE CREAM!!! Fine, I'll admit, my fault for not checking up on the patient, being too intense on preparing the specimen bottles. I even syringed out Lignocaine by accident due to being stressed out and got a bullocking from the CI. It was an ACCIDENT, at least I didn't throw it into the tray. She asked me why did I bother syringing out the Lignocaine out of the bottle, and I told her patiently because when I already broke the bottle's seal, it's considered contaminated, so there's no point I leave it wasted in an open bottle. So I just syringed it out, kept it in a syringe and wrote the name on top so that no one will get it wrong. And the CI was going on and on about how I'm wasting the hospital money and saying that I should pay for it. Urgh. >< (punches self) I swear, this is the last time I'm being super nice to help them out. You try to be nice and kind to help people out and you end up getting yelled for every single thing that went wrong.
After taking the patient back from angio, I didn't had time to write and hand over when 'big bro' came back again, due to the parents requesting a delay since their child was sleeping. So what to do?  The TL ordered me stop temporarily and go attend to him. With the trolley ready, I went with another colleague. Following him you need a partner to hold the baby, drawsheet, the required specimen bottles, what are they for (He will always ask you, and if you can't answer, out you go.) and you had to be quick on your feet. Thank God I wasn't screaming my head off for this round, but he did asked me to be FAST FAST FAST. No delaying.
Overall, since we are already used to him, the whole thing took 30 minutes, since the baby was also very silent, and not struggling. Shame that we had to use open drip method since he's too small for the butterfly vacutainer. Once done, I settled my angio patient and remaining patients and end my shift.