At Changi General Hospital yesterday, there was a mass casualty exercise and the nursing students from various institutions, NP, NYP, NUS participated as the "Casualties" in this exercise!

We got scenarios, as in a casualty tag + card scenario with a picture of the injured part of the body. In my scenario, I was acting as the patient who requires immediate attention as I got "head injury". The doctor placed a cervical collar on my neck, intravenous drip and "intubation" ( tube inserted into the airway for breathing) Never really do laa...but stimulated de...Firstly, Winah, Lydia and I are sent from the ambulance and after the ambulance arrived to the emergency department, we were brought by a trolley and be washed by the sprinkle nozzles as it is an re-enactment of a chlorine gas explosion! After which, I was transferred to the bed trolley and many nurses and doctors attended to me and brought me to the P1 section, which is a section which requires immediate treatment...I can see that the nurses, doctors and portals are quick and efficient in handling the "cases"! The whole thing seems so real!

The whole exercise reminds me of playing mamasak, children playing doctor and nurses. Then I was supposed to be brought to the Surgical Intensive Care Unit as I was "intubated" but as there are no spaces in the SICU, I was brought to the Endoscopy Centre, where they transferred me to the bed again with the patslide and took my vital signs.

My real blood pressure reading was 110/62 which was quite good...just that the diastolic of 62 is a bit low... My respiration keep fluctuating and I was lying there with the cervical collar for almost 1+ hour laa! I started to get bored and I observed the equipments they used on me. I tried to hold my breathe to observe my pulse and oxygen level! I realised dat it doesn't really affect the reading! haha!~ Urinary Catheter requisites and intravenous cannula are supposed to be inserted on a real case of a head injury patient. As the curtains are screened, I heard leakage of air and I thought i was from the machine but the sound was so constant and guess wad??? Somebody who acted as the patient fell asleep in the bed and he was SNORING laa! Den the doctor, nurses, sister and I were laughing at the snoring guy! It was hilarious! The guy was so comfortable with the bed at the Endoscopy Centre! Really LOL!~

Yanrui


Im currently studying in Ngee Ann Poly taking up Nursing! A future Nurse-to-be! Hoping to make a difference in people's life! "Nature alone cures, and what nursing has to do...is put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon them." -Florence Nightingale

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