There you are nurse (1979)

would you like to just sign just next one down and well I came here on the Sunday you know to move into the nurse and it's pouring with rain I've got so fed up and my little room had nothing on the walls you know there's other people there who's well in the same situation I think it's a start of your new career so I think I was petrified petrified I thought oh I'll never get used to it I'm a bit lost but I mean II soon get used to it find out what everything is that's great yeah wondering if I was gonna meet you know people that I was gonna get on with and like I was gonna like it it looks a bit enormous and no impersonal but then you find out soon everybody's friendly they all went into the big hall and she sort of assigned us to various groups and we just settled in and then we started off straightaway you know doing me or not I mean physiology the liver actually lies immediately underneath the diaphragm the diaphragm you remember lies at the base of the lungs I don't know you're learning so much you've got to know there if you have disease processes and the nasty and physiology it's not just a practical side you've got to do the theory so that you know what you're doing in the practical side when the doctor does own abdominal amputation he cannot feel the liver it's only if there is something wrong with the liver which it extends below this level here and can be felt Thursday how about me no lessons in bed-making as well odd pages and pages about bed making yes we gotta roll you over now towards me you felt pretty stupid you know as if you know was it was supposed to be so easy and you just could I just couldn't I thought no I'm never gonna get to be able to do this and took it in the right way but you didn't pick it is teeth we've done each other's and have to do it on the wards so you know don't mind so many patients you come across if you just can't do it themselves that's very important why this corner they roleplay actual disorders that patients suffer from now when you really start to think about a disorder and put yourself in that role you then understand far more about what it must feel like I felt awful because um the others were trying to do so much for me and I looked very unappreciative all I did was pull out at the floor the whole time and I got a bit irritated by the permanent going over a bump now I know it's necessary it's not very shaky every time we went up or down a curb around the corner it's just I've got to rely on two people I couldn't help myself and I wanted to help myself I want to just get up and get in the car but I couldn't do it and they were so one going one way and then one going round the other way one holding the door and shall we have the brakes on or off no sperma you acted the role of a blind patient can you tell me what it felt like I felt very exposed did you really do everything really yeah that was a bit weird well if it's what I was feeling along the counter and I didn't know how long the county was so and it didn't help at all really except as I stayed near the counter but felt very helpless I didn't know what she wanted to know you know as from to know the floor surfaces were changing we were coming to a darker area what she wanted to know okay we're gonna have to turn right round can you hold on to my elbow because I've got to train my hand that's turning right round we're going around to table their chairs right yes now we're going on some carpets oh yes careful the chest come out that's it and then when we were going along to the table having to go through a confined space not knowing how can find it wife I bumped into a lady what squeeze through here there's lady one side and a pillar the other side lady sorry okay oh we get into the table yeah here's a chair the table for that story can you imagine then what it must feel like to lose your sight if to a is a medical ward involved with a great variety of medical conditions for most of the girls it really is the first time that any of them have set foot on in the hospital ward what you tried first of all do I think is to put them at their ease you know to try and lessen as much of the anxiety as you possibly can extremely frightened scared today I remember walking up to the warden really really shaking and awfully scared and everybody was very very nice but I'm you know it's that stand around and somebody would say fill up a linen charlie so fold up Alan and Charlie and wonder did I get it right that's the right way to do it and you thought everything was awful important in the early days when the grant to the ward really is rather frightening there you are with a ward full of patients some of whom will be very ill usually she will work with a more senior nurse very often it will be with the nurse who was in the group in training previous to her and they are often the most helpful because they did remember very very vividly what it was like to be in the same position you regulate it to Lightspeed you start something you do a few words here and there in the general medical general surgical and it's so new that it's so much to learn there's so much to find out about it's just your blood pressure when they've been on the wards say for a continued period of time and then they'll be allowed to do those things that they've practiced under supervision on their own where there isn't it you know there isn't going to be any stress for the nurse or any danger for the patient involved and the nurse I think gets great satisfaction from this contact with a patient she learns how to communicate and get on with the patient very quickly someone that she's never even met before mr. kovitch which means for this charge today well today or tomorrow I think one must get over the fact that the nursing is purely for the women men have a lot to offer I think they're as equally as caring I think the brothers have some John who in fact worth it sort of the Institute errs of the nursing profession I mean as long as people care for other people then I think there is always a role for for men in nursing as to when you can start working he works as a car worker save involves a lot of lifting a chest today he's still coffee planner what color is it shabby every cent a specimen well normally when a doctor goes to examine a patient the nurse if she's available will often go with him and as she's been on the ward all day and has seen more of the patient probably than the doctor has she can help him that's fine how much has come out in the last 24 rounds are we shortening the tube yet twice if you ask questions they will stop and bother to explain things you must not be afraid of asking questions or you'll never learn anything is jaundice is going down as well is that because he's taking vitamin K or is it just a natural result of the operation it's mainly because of the operation but we gave him the vitamin K before the operation because he'd probably be short of it you don't absorb the T and K very well from the bow make sure the right person what's your name Morgan Finley new address 14:37 96 and 5.6 trip to 796 596 whole state yeah very good like when you come back from theater will be able to give you a pain killing injection that'll make you sleep and we should settle down after that and when you wake up again you'll be able to have another one okay how long do you have this than two months is it cause you mr. trouble okay would be a needle pretty cop enough to hurt you am i helping you at all no quite happy yeah keep an army spouse catch you later as a man of Consular the bronchus who was sort of early stages you know he was still up and about he was fine but ya know is he with his breathing so I'm sitting in racing discs and I hear this all the time and then all of a sudden my where that isn't there anymore so I go along really frame and he was dead well yes he was dead but then I thought you know cardiac arrest to to to so that's exactly what I did and suck so they run off and everything that turned out the man have been dead for quite a little while that was my first emergency his face between the 12th and 16th month of training at nurses do the first of four assessments that they have to do throughout their three years when they have to do a dressing on a patient assessed by an examiner the main thing we are concerned about is whether the nurse is safe that she can do the dressing without hurting or damaging the patient or his wound that she doesn't actively introduce infection we see how she coped for the patient of the patient is nervous or if it's a particularly difficult dressing because we give marks for the net for the nurses relationship with the patient can you tell me a little bit about Williams wound well he heard them 2 pence said to me two weeks ago and he developed an abscess now the equipment that she used on your trolley this morning was all sterilized what means of sterilization do we have available autoclave do you understand by that it's like a pressure cooker steam and steam under pressure do you know the amount of steam the amount of pressure we use 15 pounds per square inch 20 minute fine and I think I've asked you enough questions now nurse garner I'll put your mind at rest you have passed you've done quite well and I just like to make one or two comments though I did feel that when you were doing the dressing you should have been a little more careful one of the practical assessment she has to do is the safe administration of medicines and drugs and as the nurse said to me at the beginning of the round you know what she was aiming to do was to give the correct drug to the correct patient at the correct time James Marsh do you want to 8 7 7 8 when we get sent off in your little specialities and to maternity hospital and all that kind of thing in Children's Hospital psychiatric you know this kind of thing which is all totally new yet again just gonna give you a little wash now strip your bed down like this I went into it thinking of God you know geriatrics but I really like enjoyed it and I enjoyed the old people and especially on this an assessment ward let's hope on your face how's that fit you forward either take your nightie oh it's very fast moving very fast pace good lot of enjoyment I think really you come off being very tired but the day goes so quickly my grandparents are all dead so I've never really come into contact all people not ill old people I didn't have any idea what it would be like nursing all people and then when I went to the other ward you could see them you know getting better but it's nice to see them when they veg again you know because they're more chatty and they're more friendly it's very rewarding you know if you see them when they're it well again I'm going home and how pleased they relatives are when you made the better that I can't thank you enough I'll tell us different from general Nelson really happy place you've got to make it as happy as you can and then obviously you gotta be patient because you're dealing with two patients really one you can see why you can't which is the baby sticking with the game so you've got to be honest yeah surely as well do you think the baby's heart and what do you drink that comes from a cow well milk wonders blend my friend Carrie we were jumping closer to its opposite Carrie's house when I was gently across the ditch my ankle started hurt the SCN we do two years training and yes I Ranger 3 and we are more practical than the theory no they go more into theory than what we do and always wore bedside listen and get me to my break I'm alone I had to walk home because I wasn't able to bear my name you don't have quite so much responsibility either and do you work with the children a lot more or which other award you have to be on you work with patients a lot more than what you do with your srn I prefer to spend my time with the children more than ideas or sitting at the desk writing anyway so you know it suits me fine and I mean I think it's a good course you know I was anyone to do it really and the lady said we had to go to the doctor in there in the room too at the end we haven't quite finished it yet though you know that was lovely wasn't it very good you're gonna take that to school when you go back right you're gonna go to sleep in psychiatry in particular we do a lot of big groups just starting off with fairly basic things and bean cooking and household things and then gradually building it up so that they are able to look after themselves the nurses come to us to work as part of the team the idea of not wearing uniform is really to try and prevent a barrier between patients and staff come on pull your leg and I don't know which one well if you put on that ring now if you put it on slowly yes they were mined they all do with other busy this one that we're about to do is routine visit to a school-age guy and a to the half year Oh how are you today thank you do you mind if I bring my students in today thank you before that chassis hey for the first examination the sort of things I thought to complete as we had any major illnesses my operation which she hasn't look at his eyes we know he hasn't got us killed look into his mouth nice wide say ah if you please he's a good boy making no toll if the child is glasses really doesn't and any congenital abnormalities in fact anything which could be imported education at school so I've asked if she'll take two introductory two to six threes and work on the left-hand side the main board these rooms appear and then during viewing the point for assessment really is a combination of four assessments which are carried out during nurse training we're the part for however what you're looking for is the management of a ward of patients so what we're looking for mainly is that the staff are aware and have the knowledge which is given over during report and then sort of carry out the work which is to be done I am taking over to six threes with me but you that talk to me anymore have you going around with nothing on mistake the doctor in the night mrs. Bristow hello pet we got a lot of pain have you got a lot of pain pain well here was somebody who had taken a lot of care and a lot of paid a lot of attention to the patients on her ward your sister rang up this morning to see how you were all right yeah I told you that you had a good night then she'll come and see you later on today all right seem to be doing all right with your fluids if somebody does a part for assessment the ultimate question really is would you like to be looked after by this person does she give you confidence does she seem to be in control and does she have the awareness and the knowledge of each patient and his need very true situation the whole thing is knowing he's watching you doing your work it's not very easy the the problem about it is that there is nothing sort of definite but in the main I think you've done well enough and I think in this occasion we can say that we the last joke great great we all got a little caps while the girls running about their long caps on their own clothes food you can tell anybody what to do until you get a long tap qualified and everybody expects you to tell them what to do I really expect you to know that's it and if you just turn around towards nurse there after you get your white dress that's when everybody thinks she's a staff nurse or forgets that you're a brand new staff nurse so um everybody else's attitude changes towards you doctors one run to the ward all this he's a white dress and think she knows what she's doing and ask her to do this ask it to do that and relative so I think your sister I know everything and ask you about all sorts of things have you had this morning glass of milk glass of milk did you have anything on the tea lady cake you happy nope 5650 and they restricted to two liters to be okay remember that staff was qualified at the age of twenty-one which isn't very old he's dealing with people that you know middle-aged old people intelligent people and it's difficult for them to take sometimes things from a girl of twenty one but when she's got a uniform on they accept it can you do things for patience and you wonder to yourself why am i doing am i doing it because I'm doing it because I really like this patient or because I'm really feel sorry for them and I want to heal the sick or something are you doing it because you're doing your job properly you've been professional about it and you think all right you go and do this you'll turn the more you'll do other things you have to do and then sounds pretty corny but if they say thank you or just some little something I really makes it feel very good I'm not worried now like you