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Careers + Co-Ops
The last round of Co-Ops I went to The Upper Valley Haven where I helped out in the food shelf and I helped at Bev's house which is the Children's area. I helped Erin put together welcome bags for the new families moving. Going to The Haven was my favorite Co-Op because it pretend to Public Health which is what I want to pursue my education in.
My Favorite Co-Op was when I was at the Dartmouth Birthing Pavilion and I got to go in the room and watch a C-Section in person. It was amazing because I saw the Birth of a human for the first time in my life, I think I was more emotional than the father. I also got to see a baby that was born with a cleft lip and cleft palate so that was interesting as well.
On Thursday I was in the Pediatrics Department and they had a patient where in his notes it was written that he has angry behavior. The lady that had him as a patient talked to me about how to clear the room if he started acting out. He never acted out while we were in there which was good but it made me nervous the whole time, because I didn't know what would've happened and neither did she. I saw two different service dogs on Thursday which was neat to see how they all react different with the human.
On Friday we went and sat in on the Public Health meeting,were they talked about different things going on in the Community. There was a presentation about Moms in Recovery which is an Organization where moms with children can go and get help to recover from Drug addiction,it is a support system for them where they can get there life back on track and support their child or children. When the Moms go for their classes they can bring the kids with them and their is a play room for them with an adult that watches them. So that was interesting to learn about because I didn't even know about Moms in Recovery until Friday when we listened to a presentation on it.
Thursday I was placed in the Birthing Center where I followed around an LNA and she showed me all the different types of rooms, and how they differed from one another which most of them were all they same,they had all the same features and materials. I got to see the jacuzzi room and she explained how a water birth works,like what happens during the birth and after the baby is born what happens with the baby.
I watched her set up a room for a breech baby procedure which was interesting to see what materials they needed in order to flip the baby with it still being in the mother.
I was in the Emergency room on Thursday and it was the best department I have been in so far I got to see lots of different things which was really cool. I saw 2 lacerations and suturing done for them and the one that I actually watched was a thumb laceration that was pretty deep and the doctor sewed the skin back together. But first he had to numb the surface before he could sew it back together, so that was kind of painful to watch a needle drive through the skin in several different places and the patient was reacting to the pain.
I visited the VA yesterday and followed around an RN. One of the patients had Cellulitis and was getting ready to be discharged. He had Cellulitis on his right leg below the knee, when he was first admitted into the hospital they drew on his leg where it was all red and swollen, so when I say it yesterday it had shrunk down and wasn't red out to where the black outline was from before.
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One thing that I found really cool was that when they needed to give someone medication they have to scan the barcode of the medication, into the computer and it immediately goes right into the file of that patient. The computer will tell you if the patient can't have it or if the patient can have that medication which is very helpful because how would anyone know if someone can or can't have that medication.
Yesterday while I was at the Pediatrics department I followed around an LNA and she had roughly 30 patients throughout the day. In the morning while I was there I helped her clean empty rooms to place patients in those rooms. We went out and called back the patients and then brought them to a room and I watched her do Vitals and height and weight on them all. She was on the Endocrine hall so I saw her do a urinalysis which was interesting to see the colors change on the test stick.
One thing that I found really cool was that when they needed to give someone medication they have to scan the barcode of the medication, into the computer and it immediately goes right into the file of that patient. The computer will tell you if the patient can't have it or if the patient can have that medication which is very helpful because how would anyone know if someone can or can't have that medication.
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