I have now completed 4 days on the wards. It has proven to be very different and very similiar...I mean nursing is nursing all around the world....but stepping over people asleep on the floor, hearing a cacophony of different languages, reusing anything that can be reused...that's different. Sometimes it is wonderful different, sometimes not to wonderful.
The first two days I had adults and a large 11 year old and simple surgeries. I discharged 3 on my second day and it was great to see how happy they were to be "fixed" and leaving. So going into my 3ird day, I felt comfortable and completely at ease until....my assignment was a 5 yr old, a fresh postop 4 year old, another preop 4 year old, and (horrors) a 5 month old. Now for those who don't know, I have NEVER done pediatric nursing and they quite scare me. I even took my paper to the charge nurse just on the off chance that a horrible mistake had been made...which it wasn't. Well OK then, deep breath, I can do ALL things through God who strengthens me, so I did. I discovered that nursing children is like nursing adults except that you are MUCH more careful about their meds and their smiles come quicker and are, I must admit, sweeter and more infectious. The mothers stay with the children and actually do much of the care for them. I just give them meds and play with them. My preop child was delited each time someone got water from the fountain and would scream with laughter. She was here to have her leg staightened and that would be her last night of bearing weight for 3 monthes. The mother was warned that she would have to carry her .
Gotta to go to church, I will post more later...
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When The Unexpected Comes
ReplyDeleteThrough the unexpected things
That happens in our lives
We draw from God the strength we need
To carry on with Christ
For He will always hold us up
Whenever it gets too tough
And carry us through the hardest times
When we can’t feel His love
I know that at these times we feel
Abandoned by our Lord
We wonder what is going on
We can’t feel His presence at all
But He has not abandoned us
Nor forsaken us in our need
He allows the unexpected things
Be life lessons we should heed
So we will grow with deeper faith
And be strengthened in the Lord
Then when we face the storms of life
We’ll be stronger than before
So when the unexpected comes
Remember God’s in control
And nothing in life is ever wasted
But are memories that we hold
So when others come across our path
That are facing what we’ve faced
We’re more than able to share God’s love
And touch them with His grace.
© By M.S.Lowndes.