Mental health - third week behind

Third mental health practise week was first in my new placement. It's sub-acute unit in hospital and there are 32 beds for individuals. It's so confusing change placements after two weeks, just when you know daily routines and patients.

Here in Ireland students can't work with medication or take bloodtests, for example. It makes me seem that I'll do practical nurse work in this placement. This week I took bloodsugars, bloodpressures and helped people take a bath.

Anyway, my week here went quickly and I learned many new things about mental health diseases. Staff were so busy with their patients and paperworks, so other students (from UCC, fourth and second year) gave me an orientation about unit. They told me what to do and where is monitors and towels and other things what I would need this days.

I met my attitudes again, because first days made me feel a little bit uncomfortable. That's cause some  patients just looked at me like a foreign pig and I didn't know if I should have say something, just look back or ignore that. But last day in this first week was better and I had good conversations with some patients.