Friday, June 6, 2008
My Nursing Career
Today I traveled with Austin Ben and Ellie. We went off the mission and out of Mwandi with a group of doctors to an adult AIDs clinic. After we split up I ended up at a desk checking vitals with a nurse. As the first patient sat in front of us she handed me a book and told me to get the temperature, bodyweight, and BP. I stumbled with my words just long enough for her to realize I had no idea what I was doing. Soon after I was measuring and recording weight, height, blood pressure, pulse, and temperature. It was an amazing learning experience but an exhausting day. It was dissappoiting that I couldn't talk to any of the patients but I did get a chance to talk to our driver and paul th doctor. The driver told me his favorite sport was car racing which explained why we drove down dirt roads at 120 km/hr.
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So, did you use a sphygmomanometer and a stethoscope? Or did they have a machine that did the BP automatically? It sounds like you are picking up other interesting skills beyond roofing, mudding and sanding and demolition that you have learned on other mission trips. I can't quite picture the dirt road you could do 120 kph on - the vehicle must have only made occasional contact with the ground! At least the sattelite imagery on GoogleEarth shows a lot of straight roads.
Keep up the good work, and take lots of pictures!
- SL*D
I love you from Lydia
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