The environment in the postpartum unit is very calm and quiet. The only sound you can here is hushed talking between the nurses, other than that it is quiet. The lighting in the hallways and the patients rooms are different, the hallways are brighter than patients rooms. Another thing that you observe when you walk in this unit is that there are pictures on the walls, but the pictures are always of babies. The smell on this unit is the same as the rest of the hospital; it has that hospital smell, the sterile smell. When you walk into this unit a safe feeling come over you, it is also a calm feeling. This unit does not give you any stress, it helps you calm down instead.
The staff in this unit is absolutely amazing, they are all nice and caring. All of them are also very helpful, they all help each other out to get things done and get the best care for their patients. All of them have great soft skills, and that is very important in this unit were most of their patients are women whom are recovering after labor. They also have good communication skills, between the nurses as well as to their patients. They obviously have great medical skills too.
On this rotation I did not learn that much because most of the rotation consisted of watching the nurse plugging in information into the computer. I did learn a new way to find veins in the hand; by making a fist and bending the hand down. I also learned how to drain blood; the needle in the hand, as well as filling different tubes with different amounts of blood.
This was the second time for me at this unit and this experience was better than last time. Even though I sat around for most of the time I still got to see one main procedure. The nurse that I followed around this time was also better at explaining things than the last. This rotation was more educational than last time at this unit, but I did not learn that many new things. If I was going to grade it between 1-10, I give this rotation a 6 because I have had better experiences at other units.
What information was the nurse plugging into the computer? Why is the information important? Why was blood being drawn? What types of test were being sent to the lab and why? What do you mean about draining blood?
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