The Last Mon Standing

Today, the clinical instructor of the first year Midwifery students, who are having their first time duty in the hospital, asked us if we can look at them and let do them some of the  nursing interventions that we can easily do. We happily took them. Actually, i was very lucky since I was able to handle two of them (Leah and Aysha) and my patients were just having a constipation and the other was about to go home.

Instead of me taking the Vital signs, I gladly let them have the honor of taking the blood pressures and temperatures and pulse and respiratory rates.

This morning I forgot to bring my thermometer so I just borrowed Angelo’s thermometer. I gave it to Leah, but when she finished taking the temperature of our patient, I was surprised that she pulled a different thermometer, a yellow one (and it was a rectal thermometer). I asked her where my thermometer is… she was just clueless. It was just a thermometer anyway, and i can just pay Angelo for it so I did not make any fuss.

But after break, we had another Vital Signs taking for 12:00 (we have our break at 11:00) I did not find the Midwifery students since earlier that time, there was a mass in the chapel and my patient’s bed was put inside the hospital’s chapel since there are too many sick people today. As I was about to put the thermometer that i borrowed from Lorenza, they came back so I had a little chat with them. i even taught them how to compute for the IVF (dextrose) drops per minute.

My Clinical Instructor called me for some errands about my other patient’s recxords. When I came back they gave me the results so I hurriedly went back to the Nurse’s Station to plot the vital signs and write my chartings.

Fast forward… when we were about to go and we were now inside the Nightingale’s hall (a place for us, student nurses can go and can keep our things in our first-come-first-served lockers) Lorenza asked me about the thermometer… and I remembered… the midwifery students were dismissed an hour ago.