Its been a while since my last post, however I have been doing my final set of clinical placements and am due back on the road this week.
One of my placements was on a Paediatric ward at a far away hospital. It was during this placement that I realised that I couldn’t work on a ward like this. It wasn’t long ago when I didn’t know which way up to hold a small child, but after having one of my own I realised that it wasn’t that difficult to figure out. But I just don’t think that I could handle the psychological trauma of working on these wards…..
…the trauma that we normally see is the result of someone driving too fast or drinking too much alcohol or even the two combined. If the person responsible for the accident gets injured its not so hard to deal with, but when a two year old child has a spiral fracture of the femur accompanied by a dubious mechanism of injury and a very broken home, quite simply its not their fault and its just not fair!
