DragonClaw
Emergency Medical Texan
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I went for my clinicals and the was a young adult women who was a bit dinged up in a MVC. She was bleeding from the head, medic wanted to put 2IVs in, only could get one, self extricated from a totaled car, etc.
I kept wanting to tell her she'd be fine, but I can't actually know that and we're not supposed to say that, right? I didn't know what to say.
She wasn't dying as far as we knew, but she was still not the best. I just wasn't sure what the fallback is when the normal reaction is "You'll be fine".
(Also, is it normal on clinicals for a student to basically do nothing?)
I kept wanting to tell her she'd be fine, but I can't actually know that and we're not supposed to say that, right? I didn't know what to say.
She wasn't dying as far as we knew, but she was still not the best. I just wasn't sure what the fallback is when the normal reaction is "You'll be fine".
(Also, is it normal on clinicals for a student to basically do nothing?)