First Hospital Visit

I had my first of 22 hospital visits yesterday. It was in anesthesiology and went well. I wasn't nervous, only anxious about what we (me and my other four group members) would be asked especially since we have not learned any drugs this early in the term. In line with SGU tradition, we were given very little, if any, direction about where to go and what to expect. We arrived early to figure things out and a kind member of the staff assisted us. He directed us (three girls) into the "dressing room" to change into our supposedly sterile scrubs. (sterilizing consists of dropping our scrubs off for the school to launder and they wash in the dorm washers and then place in a plastic bag. I have serious doubts that this really certifies them as sterile.) We change out of our professional attire in what appears to be a very small locker room with lots of shoes lined up along the wall, mostly white wellies. Just after changing into my scrubs, two male doctors walk in with the "WHAT are you doing in here" look. They then proceed to tell us that we are in the wrong room and need to go next door. I currently have one dress shoe and one tennis shoe on I walk lopsidedly to the other room and finish changing. There is a lady in there appropriately dressed in her scrubs. She gives us a "where did you come from" look and we try to explain our situation. Turns out a few minutes later when we go out to meet our doctor, it is the same lady as in the locker room. All of us had assumed she was a nurse but we quickly found out otherwise. She then talked to us while a orthopedics surgery was going on and all was fine from there on out. All of us were curious about the surgery but she told us, no, that is not the focus of this visit, you can do that when you have your orthopedics rotation....needless to say we didnt' get to find out what the patient was being operated for. Next week we have an emergency and another anesthesiology visit. Good news is we will know which dressing room to use.