In Biomed this week we took an adventure on the hill. We toured springhill college for the whole day and it actually impressive. For a long time, I’ve had a bad taste in my mouth for the college due to its golf course, but the college itself proved to be something impressive. For one it was very pretty, and the tour of the more recently built buildings showed that. After we concluded our initial tour we attended an actual biology-based lecture. They talked about many things like tumors, lymph nodes, and STDs. Easy to say it was a little difficult to track. After exiting that lecture we got to speak with an administrator who was wonderful and started asking us about what we wanted to do. She is a nurse herself so of course she focused on nursing, asking us how we could see ourselves fitting into nursing through questions about comfortability with people, and intro and extroversion. Nurses have to talk to people and be okay with human touch as it's very common in that profession. The thing that will probably stick with me the most from that day probably wouldn’t be the St. Luke’s alumni or even the high-fidelity manikins, it was the hot day story. Essentially the administrator we were talking to had her very first ever patient pass because he was a four-year-old who choked on a hot dog. The child had accidentally swallowed the hotdog whole and therefore it was stuck in his airway and he went brain dead, and this taught us to always cut our hotdogs around children just in case. Obviously, the manikins were cool with their human-like features, like their skin and pulses, but the other shocking part of the day was the skills lab. Applying sterile gloves. Luckily we all looked very intelligent in front of the instructor because we had all just practiced donning and doffing gloves, the week prior. I clearly won't be attending Spring Hill, but I have to say my opinion of it definitely went up.
During the class of biomed with week I’ve been trying to reach out to find a mentor, or at this point at least a job shadow before sometime next Friday, and boy, it’s been a little struggle, but I’m going get through it. The other interesting thing was the note cards this week about specific procedures, I was on one hand slightly in awe, and on the other completely traumatized because I learned about Laser PVP surgery. DO NOT GOOGLE THIS. The process is sticking a laser-firing tube through the penis leading it to the prostate, and then the laser fires to destroy excess prostate tissue. I feel I should end this blog by reiterating my point, DO NOT GOOGLE LASER PVP.
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