OB
For those of you who do not know, these two letters strike fear in the heart of any brave man. They stand for some non-important, hard to pronounce word, but the just of the matter is: pregnant women, anxious husbands, screaming babies, annoyed doctors, and a few frantic nurses. Such was my lot in life to land my clinicals in the OB ward at the hospital. Now, women are bad enough when they're "normal", but when they're in that predicament, well, it is worse than whatever you imagined. I was sentenced to 72 hours there, and only have 18 done so far. If I survive this, I have decided, I can handle anything (except pregnant women and screaming babies). So far, I have not had to witness any gory sights, I just had to hold babies for most of a 12 hour day. The moral of the story is: Avoid this situation at all costs, run like your hair's on fire or whatever it takes, and better yet, never get the grand idea that nursing is for you. If I ever want to be an OB nurse would someone please take me out and shoot me?
posted by Amos at 6:33 PM
6 Comments:
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh....how I wish I could steal the remaining hours from you!! I love OB! But then, the women that I assisted had epidurals and didn't do much of the screaming thing.
I'll admit I didn't care to do my preceptorship there though :) I wanted med/surg experience...
Ok so all I can say is I have been laughing for at least five minutes. I really feel for you man. Hope you dont lose all your hair.
Amos! What do you mean "Women are bad enough when they are normal"? You don't really mean that do you?
Chris, thanks for the advice, to cope with problems one must increase Dew intake.
Kristi, you are more than welcome to the rest of my hours, that is the only time I hate nursing.
Kyle, I am running a little low on hair, I had to grow a beard to account for it.
Kimi, if there is one thing that I learned in 4 years of school, I don't know what it is. I can say that the statement you quoted was learned after 3 years in a class of 40 women and 5 guys. Guys have their bad days but girls.... I rest my case.
A word of caution Amos....don't judge ALL women by the 40 women in your class...we don't ALL fit the stereotype that you might have given my kind. :)
Kristi, I would never judge all women so harshly, only all the ones that I know.
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