Yesterday, I went to the Dean Office to meet the Vice Dean, requested her to change my practical group. She granted my wishes immediately and placed me in Group 231 F. Now I'm in Group 231 F, which consists of only 6 students including me compared to my previous group, Group 231 O which consists of 9 students altogether. Frankly, I feel much better to be in a smaller group as it might be more conducive for studying and carrying out practical works for medical students. According to them, actually the maximum number of students in each group should not exceed 7 students for a medical academy so as to enable the students to gain the maximum benefits in every practical classes. At the same time, It's good too as I still can exchange study materials from my previous groupmates since we are getting different lecturers.
Today is my first day in Group 231 F. My group consists of 6 medical students including me, in which all of them are government scholars except me. I feel quite proud that I am the only private student who have the chance to be in same group with them. There are 2 JPA chinese girls (Jen Nee and Sheue Li), 2 Ministry of Defence Scholars (Rahman and Dave) and 1 Mara Scholar (Amir). All of them are very studious and hardwoking students and excel in their studies. Well, it is good anyway as we are future doctors and we must acquire ourselves with the unlimited knowledge and practical skills to serve the public health next time.
This morning, we went to Nizhny Novgorod Cardiac Centre for our nursing class. At first, our lecturer, Dr Marina Viktorovna Pichugina gave us some notes regarding patient care and nursing skill to copy. After that, we are brought to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Cardiac Centre. Basically, all the patients who have just undergone cardiac surgery are placed in this ward. They are given special attention and care from the nurses as their life might be at risk at anytime even though the cardiac surgery previously is considered successful. I felt quite pity as I saw some patients in the ward are even babies of few months only, suffering from heart puncture or heart failure. More than 10 electrode wires are fixed on the babies bodies and is closely monitored by some medical devices. The limbs of the babies are also being tied up for safety purpose in case the hands or legs of the babies might be pulling off any electrode accidentally. The reason is any electrode which is pulled off unexpectedly will cause the death of the babies. Moreover, I also saw some elderly people in the ward. Some of them are still in unconsious condition whereas some of them are able to talk already after the cardiac surgery. The major problem faced by the elderly people are myocardial infarction and heart failure.
Later on, Dr Marina Viktorovna Pichugina also briefed us about all the drugs and medical equipment that are normallly used in a cardiac ward, for example, aspirin, diuretics, defribillation, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and the like. We learned and gained a lot of knowledge from her. We adjourned at 10.35am.
This is one of the practical lessons from which I gained a lot of new knowledge. =)
Taken at Nizhny Novgorod Cardiac Centre
