Wednesday, August 02, 2006
~ Happy Nurses' Day!! ~
10:25:00 am
Yesterday marks a very special day for a very special group of profession... People whom they call
"Angels in White"... Yup, that's right... Yesterday was Nurses' Day!!
So, to all my fellow nurses...
Happy Nurses' Day!!
Be it a trainee or a full-fledged nurse, this day is specially for us... Our dedication in helping the sick, nursing them to back to health, brings joy to each and every work we do... No doubt we've come across fussy patients, irritating relatives, horrible doctors, tiring working schedule and many, many more, but at the end, we will feel the satisfaction when we see the outcome of our work...And yes... I'm proud to be a nurse... =)
Enough about praising nurses and nursing...
Let's talk about the bad side of nursing... Well... Or rather, the working condition in my ward...
Just ended my round of night duty this morning... All I can say is, this is one of my horrible round of night...
First night was alright... We were running on 5 staffs so everything was rather stable... Second night was the worse among all... We were running on only 4 staffs and I had 3 admissions and 1 death... Had to take care of 20 patients instead of the normal 18... In the end, I only managed to leave work at 9.15am... Third night wasn't very bad but still bad... Again, we were running with 4 staffs with me in-charge of 20 patients... But apparently, since there were 3 staff nurses on duty, my colleague who was doing junior, had to be deployed up to Level 12 since they had only 1 staff nurse... Ended up having a Health Care Assistant deployed from CDC2 to our ward as my junior... Since the HCA is not orientated to our ward, things went rather slow... Well, I'm not complaining cuz I'm thankful that at least I have a junior rather than I have none... At least, I finished my work earlier than the day before...
And so, that sums up the round of night shift... I've survived and still surviving although there are times when I think that I can just go crazy with all the work that I have in hand... And yes, being a staff nurse at night is not easy...
Anyway, it's usually a culture for us to have 5 staffs instead of 4 during night duty... But apparently, due to the very bad MC rate in our ward, they had to pull the 5th staff to do day shifts instead... But looking at the workload that we have during our night duty, it's almost impossible to have only 4 staffs on duty at night... It's just really bad cuz we have the most number of staffs in all wards of TTSH...
Can't believe I'm already crapping about work so early in the morning but sometimes, it's just so frustrating... Okay, gonna eat my breakfast and hit the sack after that... Adios!
And oh... Special number '4'...
I'm just glad that we've got this far... Although we do have our ups and downs, I'm glad it's still going on strong... And I'm hoping to spending more with you....................
written, NaDiaH eRNiYaNTi
