Women's Health
Oct. 9th, 2016 12:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hillarygayleThere is definitely something I need to take up with my advisor in the program at UTHSC, though.
During my time in the program, we were given VERY little information about vaginal, uterine, & cervical problems. We were acute care, and there was a women's health program, and never the twain shall meet! In fact, I once asked if I could do a written report on the ICU management of a post-delivery patient who was on the vent, and my advisor specifically told me that was women's health and we didn't do it. Okay, sure, it started with the delivery of a baby, but are you telling me the OB-GYN is going to manage that patient in the ICU? Naw, it ain't gonna happen. But the only training we got was for swabbing for sexually transmitted infections.
So here I am working in emergency, with my adult and geriatric patients, and guess what? It turns out about half the people I see in the ED have uteruses, vaginas, and cervixes! And sometimes those people are having problems with those things, and they are not sexually transmitted infections! WEIRD, THAT.
During my time in the program, we were given VERY little information about vaginal, uterine, & cervical problems. We were acute care, and there was a women's health program, and never the twain shall meet! In fact, I once asked if I could do a written report on the ICU management of a post-delivery patient who was on the vent, and my advisor specifically told me that was women's health and we didn't do it. Okay, sure, it started with the delivery of a baby, but are you telling me the OB-GYN is going to manage that patient in the ICU? Naw, it ain't gonna happen. But the only training we got was for swabbing for sexually transmitted infections.
So here I am working in emergency, with my adult and geriatric patients, and guess what? It turns out about half the people I see in the ED have uteruses, vaginas, and cervixes! And sometimes those people are having problems with those things, and they are not sexually transmitted infections! WEIRD, THAT.
