Returning to this blog after quite a pause. It has been a hectic month, what with planning for a vacation back in India in mid-February. I write this while counting down the hours left for my flight to India via Frankfurt on Lufthansa this time ... I hope to be amidst the living sometime in the early hours of the 17th ... in Mumbai.
Work-wise, a few great things happened, and a few things went wrong too. On the wrong side first: I participated in a course that goes beyond life-saving resuscitation of a newborn to learn advanced resuscitation techniques. For this course, I went to Manchester in end-January. The course turned out to be a little tough. However, it did help me to understand a lot of things and will make my treatment and management skills more accurate, specific and well-rounded.
I went back to my educational supervisor and explained what had happened. I then offered to not be a full-rota registrar that I was slated to become from the 7th of the coming month. This is what then transpired. My supervisor had a lengthy chat with the departmental head and they agreed that it might be a good idea to let me work as a registrar on every occasion except on night calls since that is when there is no support for a registrar and they are pretty much alone with no consultant to cover.
However, here, then, follows the good news. Over the last fortnight, I have been closely scrutinised by the paediatric nurses and the consultants, and they must have felt that I am otherwise quite capable - so they put me back on the night as a registrar in the last two days. I performed quite well, and therefore, am hopeful that I may continue to be on a full rota once the 7th of March comes around.
In other news, I did perform a few extra practical procedures on neonates and have now gained much more confidence that I can perform well even with this precious category of patients.
Moving away from the professional to the more personal stuff: in preparation for the vacation that starts tonight, I have been on a buying spree on Amazon as well as offline to meet the demands of my women. I have ended up buying so much stuff! This includes frozen fruit, novelties, items specifically requested by my daughters, and so on. Valentine's day went by yesterday, and this, I believe, will be the best way to fill their hearts with my love for them!
And with these hopeful words, I will end this post. I hope you found it interesting. Thanks.
Work-wise, a few great things happened, and a few things went wrong too. On the wrong side first: I participated in a course that goes beyond life-saving resuscitation of a newborn to learn advanced resuscitation techniques. For this course, I went to Manchester in end-January. The course turned out to be a little tough. However, it did help me to understand a lot of things and will make my treatment and management skills more accurate, specific and well-rounded.
I went back to my educational supervisor and explained what had happened. I then offered to not be a full-rota registrar that I was slated to become from the 7th of the coming month. This is what then transpired. My supervisor had a lengthy chat with the departmental head and they agreed that it might be a good idea to let me work as a registrar on every occasion except on night calls since that is when there is no support for a registrar and they are pretty much alone with no consultant to cover.
However, here, then, follows the good news. Over the last fortnight, I have been closely scrutinised by the paediatric nurses and the consultants, and they must have felt that I am otherwise quite capable - so they put me back on the night as a registrar in the last two days. I performed quite well, and therefore, am hopeful that I may continue to be on a full rota once the 7th of March comes around.
In other news, I did perform a few extra practical procedures on neonates and have now gained much more confidence that I can perform well even with this precious category of patients.
Moving away from the professional to the more personal stuff: in preparation for the vacation that starts tonight, I have been on a buying spree on Amazon as well as offline to meet the demands of my women. I have ended up buying so much stuff! This includes frozen fruit, novelties, items specifically requested by my daughters, and so on. Valentine's day went by yesterday, and this, I believe, will be the best way to fill their hearts with my love for them!
And with these hopeful words, I will end this post. I hope you found it interesting. Thanks.
