School Day

Today was an all day school day for me. First in the morning I joined the clinic staff for their morning training. We learned about the role of a nurse assistance as well as some clinic protocol. There was a practical section of the class where we were taught to take blood pressure, temperature and pulse. Yesterday Dennis and Suzy asked me to take more of an active roll in the clinic. So, I will be learning things like wound care, immunizations, starting IVs, giving meds, etc. I am already comfortable with registration, triage and the pharmacy. They want me to be ready to fill in at the clinic as needed. I'll still be mainly focused on helping Sabet and Suzy administratively, but will spend a little more time in the clinic. I am excited about that. I love doing the health education with the pregnant moms. This past week's was on the contents of a TBA kit. We want them to come to the clinic for their delivery, but if they can't make it, they will have received a TBA kit with tools to help with a safe delivery.

Then after lunch, we had a two hour Dinka lesson. This week we started learning Dinka. A teacher will come twice a week to teach us. It is really hard! We have a lot of fun in the class, but it's definitely challenging. Many of their letters require a throaty noise/grunt which I am having trouble grasping. I'll have to work on that!