Wednesday, March 08, 2006
~ UPDATES!!! ~
10:48:00 pm
Looking after a demented patient can be a real challenging task... From handling his mood swings to his behaviour patterns... It can be quite unbearable sometimes...
Currently, there's this female patient in my ward who is suffering from dementia... Well, this patient is mobile so we allow her to walk around in the ward, provided that she doesn't disturb anyone else, which is almost impossible... We can see that the other patients' relatives are quite scared of her... It's quite understood cuz imagine if someone just comes up to you and starts scolding you, you would get scared too...
Her behaviour can change from happy to sad to angry drastically... For example today, she just started crying and wailing loudly without any apparent reason... After which, she started to get agitated and almost wanted to hit one of the doctors...
And about 2pm in the afternoon, I had this one transfer in case from the ICU and this old lady started to get so agitated that she took one of my patients' walking stick and wanted to hit everyone around her... Of course the students (luckily we had some NP nursing students on attachment) were around to stop her but of course, they were scared of her too...
Although she is not directly under my care, but it can get quite frustrating sometimes...
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Apparently, working with this particular doctor is not so bad after all...
Initially, he had such a bad reputation with our ward because he would come super early to work and demanded the discipline census from us... And there was once when he actually argued with one of the nurses in our ward because of this issue...
So imagine how 'dreadful' it was when we found out that he was covering the patients over at my side...
Initially, he couldn't get along well with us but after a few days, we finally realised that he's not so bad as what we made him to be... Just that, he's TOO hyper (just like some nurses in the ward) and TOO enthusiatic...
But after working with him for 3 days straight, well, he's not so bad after all... In fact, he's quite a nice person too...
This is what they call the practitioner-nurse relationship... Which IS important...
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Looks like I am not able to go for my driving lessons any time soon...
Apparently, I went over to SSDC yesterday with the intention of getting a new PDL so that I can start learning driving again...
Anyway, when I wanted to apply, the person said that I had to bring along my old PDL so that she is able to renew it for me... So I asked her what if I lost it? She told me that I had to make a police report even though it was already expired...
The deep shit part was... I THREW AWAY MY EXPIRED PDL!! I mean, how was I supposed to know that I could still use the old PDL... So, am I supposed to tell Mr Policeman that I threw away my PDL? *Shucks*...
Looks like I will have to wait till my FTT expires... *DARN!*...
written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
