Seeing how the week was going for me, I kind of expected to be sent home without being able to do my clinicals today because I did not do my skin test. As luck would have it, there was some trouble in the organization of the day and they totally forgot to check our vaccination cards.
I'll be honest; it was a shit day. No one was prepared for us due to some bad planning on the university's behalf and we were tailing nurses around like stray dogs. We did not learn anything and most of our day consisted of standing around corridors whilst people were shuffling around us.
Yes, this means no showering, wiping bums or milking of breasts.
The nurse who was responsible for us clearly didn't give a shit about us because she said we couldn't help anyway, so it made it all the more frustrating when I learnt other students got to do hands on stuff on their first day. Next week gets worse as we have to arrive by 7am.
Only good thing about today was that I made 4 new friends in my course. I feel somewhat glad that I'm not the only one living near the Campbelltown/East Hills line.
From what I learnt today, not all nurses are glamorous care workers. They see patients as bacteria factories who were items of interest. The nurse was telling us the diseases certain MRSA patients had and was telling us how to protect against them within hearing range of the patients who were bed bound. This is unethical practice because
1) each and every patient has the right to have their privacy and she openly breached it with no one to stop her and
2) she was openly discriminating one patient from another. (breach of universal precaution)
Overall I was a bit shocked, but maybe I was expecting too much from the start.
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