This week was the first week that we did work experience. I was very lucky and got the chance to go into the Micro-Biology lab in St James's Hospital. My mam drove me in St.James's, it is in the city centre which meant we left at 9:00 am to get there by 10:00 am. When I arrived I was greeted by my supervisor Ms Barry. She brought me up to her office where she explained to me about what is done in the lab. She also told me to be very careful in the lab and to wash my hands after every time I go in there. I washed my hands a lot more than usual on Wednesday.
I was then given the oppurtunity to accompany three medical students as they were told about the lab. The three girls were very nice and it was very interesting to learn about all the different bacterias that cause illness even though it semed like they were talking in a different language. I saw how to make a gram stain. You have to do this before you look at a sample through a microscope. I also got to look in a microscope to see if a sample was gram negative or gram positive, this is just putting bacteria into two different categories.
After this I had lunch with the med students. After lunch I then went to Journal Club. This is where one person talks about a case study they recently encountered that they found interesting. On Wednesday it was about a woman who presented with signs of a stroke but it was later found out that it was infact a brain aneurysm. They were still unsure of the cause but some people thought that it was because she had gotten a tooth pulled out and this led to the aneurysm.
After journal Club I went back into the lab to learn about how to test for susceptibility in bacterias. This was very interesting but again I felt like they were speaking a different language but I undestood some of it.
After this part of being in the lab I then went into the office where i was given lots and lots of papers to scan into a machine and then put it into the system so when a person wanted to know about a test that had been done in James's they could ring and give there code and all the information on the pieces of paper that I scanned would appear on the screen of who ever looked for it in the hospital.
I finished my day at 4:00pm. It was very interesting and busy aswell. I can't wait until I go back next week.
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Aoibhin x
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