" Toxic" in a Nurse's Points of View

Literally, 'toxic' means poisonous substance that can inflict bodily harms, but in a nurse perspective it means pending work or multiple Doctor's orders or huge patient census. I never been toxic since i started working until yesterday.

My original shift was Am, ordinarily the usual ratio in our unit is three bedsides and one charge nurse. Unluckily, yesterday we only had two bedsides Ma'am Jem and I and Ma'am Tala our charge nurse. We had 13 patients and three admissions, so to sum it up i had eight or nine patients that morning. At the start of the shift, everything went smoothly, until when i started to fed my one patient using gastric tube, i didn't see the feeding Iv on the bedside so i utilized the Toomy syringe that has 50 cc, imagine i have to fed my client with 210 cc using that syringe, that ate my time so much, funny indeed the relative told me "Ito na lang gamitin mo,mas madali, ito iyong ginagamit nila!" gosh! i was humiliated, i overlooked that device. When i am really recovered, the patient tracheostomy released a lot of secretions so i suctioned it. Then i have to prepare all my due medications. I have to fill out all the stationary to plot all the Vital Signs, do charting, catered all the patients and relatives' request. And other pending work i have to attend to.

Much to my dismay, another co associate went absent so they asked me to extend my duty up to 7pm, the "toxiness" wasn't subside until 5:30pm, I have blood transfusion, i have to reinsert Iv's to three of my patients. Two of them had fever and increase blood sugar. To add with my misery i extended the duty up to 11pm, so i had A/P shift. Omg! what a day, i thought i was indefatigable but i was wrong, my energy was depleted. At least i learned about strategies and techniques. :)

Affectionately,

Ainan.

My Nurse Staff Effectiveness training (NSET)

"The 'End' of some body's time, is my time to 'Shine'".

Gosh! July 3,2008 will be the date of our graduation in NSET at St. luke's Medical Center, after this we're gonna face the real chaos of our profession. I will miss all my co-trainees especially "Weng" my best buddy on the field, on singing, teasing and mocking our co-trainees. The sinister sister indeed.

"A lot like LOVE"

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place....I am the force!!!!!!!!!!"

Last June 02-06, 2008, our clinical rotation with my co-trainee Bong on St. Luke's Medical Center was on Cancer 2 a special Onco Unit. When I got there I've noticed this guy who happened to be the clinical pharmacist on the unit. I heard that temporarily he will be in the unit for one week, actually his original post is in Cancer 1. When I arrived I noticed his stealing glimpse and glances, at first i wasn't conscious because the heck I was late for a couple of minutes. He was cute stereotypical filipino, not to tall approximately 5'4" in height, fair, with braces, handsome i mean. When I proceed with my delegated task I always catch him staring at me, at first i felt weird but there's "Kilig". Then he kept on staying at my side, I felt butterflies on my stomach when he's around. On my third day, I was joking with Bong that he's my husband, good thing with Bong he rode on my jokes and kept on teasing me, at lunch time I even joked and introduced him to my closest trainee named "Weng", she said it was my first time that my "taste" got wrong in terms of picking a good looking guy. Let just say love is blind, such a cliche' indeed. But, when my last day of duty came, I was disappointed because the girl used to be the pharmacist of that unit took over. I saw him when I was in the elevator after my break, I saw his eyes i wasn't know what hidden message he was trying to imply. But the whole duty was full of emptiness and I was lonely the whole day. Folks! The lucky guy named is "JERWIN L. LIM RPh" working in ST. Luke's Medical Center. Pray for the best that Our path meet again. Hope I've got his number while his reciting it during the phone conversation. But what more can I say, Love come, Love goes.

"Life After Nurse Licensure Examination"

After june 10-11, 2007 board exam life became so idle.I'm sure most newly graduated nurses would agree with me.Waiting for the results take two months or so because in my case, the result was released august 30, 2007. After that one month after the "oath taking" followed, the most agonizing part was waiting for your license to be released, mine was december so try to calculate how many months i became stagnant. I started applying that month when i received my license. And i received a call from "TMC" but unfortunately I wasn't able to passed their clinical exam. Last February I received a call from "Our Lady Of Mercy Hospital" in pulilan,bulacan and I was accepted as a volunteer/trainee, i had reliever experienced their and two days prior to my deployment "SLMC" called-up for Physical exam, so it means i passed their psyche & clinical exam by the way the exam was 100 items & the passing i think was 75%. So in other words i am Awool in OLMC. Now my 3-month training in St. Luke's is on going, i'm on my 2nd month already. I belong to NSET batch 03-08, hopefully i will be deployed soon. Wish me goodluck guys. To my colleague don't lose hope. that's the trend today the long jurassic years waiting, there'll come a time you'll be deppressed for being stagnant, but have faith & always pray. My next entry will be my training experienced. :)