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Date: 29 March 2006 07:42:46
I went on blood rounds this morning and jabbed needles into more people than I can remember!! All were successful except my last three which needed a bit of extra manoevuring from the pathology nurse! The last three were all left arms and the first lots were all right arms. Maybe left arms are harder...
No-one had told me how long I was meant to be on blood rounds for and I was having a good time so I stayed for 2 hours, missing an hour of a tutorial on vital signs but that's ok. I already know how to measure blood pressure (with my sphygmomanometer!!) and temperature and find pulses.
After that we all went on mad dashes to find "good" patients for our communications tutorials and bags them before the rest of the group got to them. It's good to have a patient who is not too deaf, demented or deluded for the purposes of our tutorials because you then have to take the patient's history in front of your tutorial group. We found some great and interesting patients and our tutor was most impressed :D
Yeah did some other fun stuff and talked to some friendly staff (including one who thought we were having him on when we asked what a "Swedish nose" is as it was mentioned in someone's chart. Apparently it's nothing to do with the nose and is something to do with the metabolism of the porphyrin structure in haemoglobin) and generally had a good day.
But yes, hurrah for blood taking!!