Our cohort have just started our clinical placements, (i start thursday) some of the girls started yesterday and weve been chatting over our uni blackboard about it and i cant believe what some have been doing on their first day.
One was on labour ward (where i will be) and she did 2 VE's, a pethadene(sp?) injection, wrote upnotes and did obs.
Now i expected to do obs and notes, but VE's and injections?!?! She said she really enjoyed it tho and cant wait to get back there, it has put my mind as ease a bit because i know everyone enjoyed themselves but i am a little nervous about being thrown in the deep end!
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MMM not being funny, the VE's ok fair enough, but really there should surely be some underpinning theory to all of this, uni should have given you sessions, and I don't think that pethidine should be adminstered unless you know the implications/reasoning and dosage that you are given as after all if that midwife has drawn it up wrong or not checked it properly, they'll be in the s**t and also the poor student mw involved. We do not give anything like that unless we can state the affect it will have on mum/baby, the dosage amounts and also the reversal if required. God I hope they're not doing VIT K aswell xx supervisors of midwives at our trusts would have major hissyfits-darn right too x

We have done workshops about VE's but not done anything about pethadine really, i was shocked when she told us!!!
Dont thing anyone is giving Vitamin K, no one has said anything anyway....

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Haha the VE's workshops were funny and then my first shift, I apparantly/allegedly felt a multips os lol, I'm not saying anything just didn't feel right, like digging for worms heehee xx

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It's really tough when you're a student midwife because there's no order or logic to what goes on. You see things you haven't learnt and you learn things that you haven't seen. But I personally think that the best thing to do is get stuck in straight away. I learn best whilst I'm on placements, and if your mentor is willing to allow you to do something, I think you should grasp the opportunity with both hands and don't shy away. After all, you are constantly being supervised, and they wouldn't allow you to do anything that put their registration on the line.

I have to say I'm impressed though, I was dipping urine for my first term on community, and too shy to do much more. Wish I'd taken the bull by the horns and taken a few a/n appointments and done some p/n checks by myself. Hindsight's a wonderful thing, eh!

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I did injections in placement before doing the theory.. My mentor was fab though, I observed quite a few before doing any, she explained the theory of it too my too (during a quiet night shift) and then let me do it! I'm soo glad she explained it to me though! I wouldn't have liked to have done it without the knowledge..
RE. VE's.. This is one thing that I was really nervous about, I made sure I told me mentor this on the very first day.. And on that first day when the oppurtunity came up to do a VE she gave me the choice or whether I wanted to or not, really supported me and made me feel really confident.. I did do the VE and I'm sooo glad I did! Not been nervous about them since!

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2nd year student midwife