Reflective Essay: Working In Emergency And Intensive Care

I have been working at Queensland Health since 2013 and during this time particularly while studying I tried to gain as much exposure and knowledge across multiple areas to assist me in decision making later in my careers. I began working at Paediatric Tertiary Hospital working in Emergency and Intensive Care departments as an Administration officer which gave me the essentials for understanding the importance of patient flow, impacts on patient care, fundamentals of empathy when dealing with difficult parents and the significance that each individual role plays, ultimately working as a team in delivering patient care. Still to this day many of the things I leant during this time have shaped my understanding and fundamentals of the day-to-day …show more content…
After community health I then moved out rurally where I began working at a small Multi purpose healthcare centre in Blackwater, 3 hour drive away from a main hospital this was an experience that much like ED has shaped my understanding and given me more drive and motivation in my current role to assist and support these rural facilities as much as possible. I can recall during cyclone Debbie having no limited generator power, with a cardiac patient, two labour patients and one birth (Blackwater is not a birthing hospital) however, Ambulances were unable to transport patients due to the roads being blocked, Royal Flying Doctors Service were unable to fly aero-planes due to the wind, and all staff were doing almost 18 hour shifts due to staff being unable staff to drive in or out of town, it is in these moments you really all pull together as a team and do what you can. However, being a city girl born and bred, even describing such a situation seems like something only out of a book but this is something that happens on a semi regular