Thursday, October 18, 2007
(Cant be bothered to change all the 'I's into my glam-nickname KR)
No! I cant contain it. I have to post right away. Why? Because i just had a clinic, and it just needs to be blogged on!!!
Okay, we had perio clinic. I was already running late, alhamdulillah the traffic was not that bad so my drive to school was quite ok. When i arrived, i just knew that i had to retrieve the patient's record folder from the record room because i just keyed my appointment into EXACT yesterday, and there the long queue waited for me. Good good. I ran upstairs, passing by the waiting room, pretending not to look because i didnt want to meet my patient's eyes. Told you i was running late, he must have been there already!
Long story cut short, i set up ala kadar and just waited for my demonstrator to come before bringing the patient in. Clock ticked away, and she still hasnt appeared. So, brought the patient in, made some petty conversations and ran away to hunt for the demonstrator. Still no news. When it was about 1/4 past 2, we made a fuss, and bugged the nurses, people in the reception, other groups' demonstrators and people from other groups as well. Heh. Tak sabar ok because it was already 2.15, and we couldnt start without a demonstrator, and perio clinic is just for 2hrs sahaja! Turned out that nobody could contact her, and she apparently didnt contact anyone in the school to inform about the nonattendance. So senior nurse suggested that we resort to other group's demonstrators, which was why i received the comment from (tall) Mel "you stole our demonstrator Aini". "Yes because i'm so mean" "yes, you are" with a smile.
On another note, people have been complaining how there wasnt any ultrasonic scaler left in the clean instruments' trolleys. So, as you can imagine the clinic this afternoon was a mess. So, while i was waiting in the queue for the demonstrator, chatted with (alamak lupa la nama dia, Yvone kot) the German DA. "clinic is such a mess this afternoon. Our demonstrator didnt turn up (should we call it a NOSH hehe), and we're out of scalers." sambil menggeleng-geleng dan bermuka sesal.Hamboih hamboihh pandai sangat la komplen!! But yeah, how are we expected to do perio clinic without scalers?? Hand instruments all the gross heavy calculus???? And when i later looked for LA kit, they too, was found to be out of stock as well. Arghhh...dalam kekalutan , so i grabbed the Cons kit (because there's also LA kit in the Cons kit), only later to be tegur-ed by the DA because Cons kit is largely equipped with LOTS of Cons instruments, and the one i used was only the LA syringe. So it's a big waste aite, since all the rest of the instruments will be sterilised all over again, though they arent dirty.
It was quite difficult to have a senior nurse assisting because she knows a lot, and she has a lot of rules too! No wiping off mirrors onto the gown, no retracting with fingers, put the scaler up onto the handpieces' machine top, and there was something else, lupe pulak. Ok ok ok..no need to argue and create tension...just nod to whatever they say, cause most of the things ARE true.
And the clinic was slow-moving simply because i needed to wait for a long queue and couldnt be too pushy because i was menumpang-ing other people's demonstrators kan. Left pakcik patient in the x-ray bay for 10mins kot with the super heavy lead apron on, due to the queue issue again. Alhamdulillah Mel and Tahlia gave their turn to me though they were at that time ahead of me in the queue. But i somehow managed, with stable hand (no more shaking this time alhamdulillah yayyyy) did LA on the upper anteriors, up to the 5 on Q1, and scaled 11, 12, 13 with root planing on 11D and 12D which had 6-7mm pockets! Could sense my scaling and root planing was improving, alhamdulillah the efforts all these while havent gone to waste bin. Smile smile....=). When the demonstrator came and check,no calculus was left in the deep pockets =) thank you Allah for that. The next best thing was, (petite) Mel and i didnt have to present the seminar today cause apparently no one would be nerd and skema enough to organise for the seminar, yes? So we just distributed the handouts and they can read them themselves at their own leisure =). Oh i owe Mel a drink for printing out the handouts
Oh hold on, here's the climax of the story for today. When i took my patient's folder to be signed off by Dr Yap, the ibu tumpang demonstrator, she then asked about my 'other sheet'. Perplexed. " What other sheet? Oh, we dont have the log sheet for perio session this semester because we havent got it back from last sem" i said confidently in as-a-matter-of-fact tone. Bijak sangattttt. "But all the other people have got it, and i just signed them" Dr Yap. "really???" white-faced. Sangat bijak??????? NO?
For your information (oh this might be a lengthy explanation) the perio log sheet is a sheet where u need to write down every info in every clinic session, and needs to be signed off by the demonstrator every time you have clinic. It is a proof and record of your performance in the clinic, for the course coordinator to refer to, in order to mark for your clinical component. As far as i'm concern, back tracking of signing isn't normally allowed. Bijak sangat that i assumed we didnt need to print out the sheet ourselves and could get away with it. Bijak sangat that i trusted the others earlier in the semester when they say they havent got the sheet. Apparently, EVERYONE has it now... And there's no prize for guessing what mark could i get from a blank sheet...
You can imagine how as soon as i reached home, rushed to the computer and checked yahoo email, naah, emailed Dr Polster, the perio coordinator, asking for mercy huhuuuu.... Mind you im already losing marks for 1st semester's perio clinic for not having enough clinical experience since NONE of the patients ever turned up. According to Dr Polster, she wont fail me because it wasnt my fault, but, it's a disadvantage not having patient... Can i afford to lose marks again for this semester you asked??? So much of complaining that clinic was such a mess in the beginning, and who's a mess now???
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And whoever fears Allah-He will make for him a way out. And will provide for him from where he does not expect" 65:2-3 . Hanging onto this aayah now... Do make dua' for me...jazakallah khayr
~~*posted on*~~ Thursday, October 18, 2007
