Inject own friend...Feeling is so special

Today met a highschoolmate in my hospital, who was very popular in basketball team in high school.
After 4 years graduated from high school, I met her in my department (outpatient dept) because she came in for medical check up, in order to allow her to work in Taiwan.
Her accent became so taiwanese because she studied there for 4 years. After reaching home, I saw her message to me in fb, she was glad that I helped her,etc .......she was so friendly.

I feel glad to meet her, tried to help her as much as I can: I called her name to enter dr's room for physical examination, and called her to inject her with MMR vaccination.

This is my first time inject my own friend. It went very smooth. However, I still being commented by my senior, who had supervised me during the injection. She said I did not put the needle 90 degree enough for this intramuscular injection and the needle went in too deep. Anyway, it would be no harm to my friend because the vaccine definitely would enter her muscle. It was just the comment to sharpen my injection skill. Thanks for my senior for commenting me.

酒精片的故事

突然觉得，有些医生真的很懒惰。或许习惯性护士们的帮忙，连小东西都要人家帮。今天看不过眼的是，酒精片（alcohol swab）也要护士或者护士助理撕开才开心，不然就讲你为什么不撕给他/她。有些地方的医生才没有你那么懒惰呢。

或许，要怪的，是很久很久以前的前辈们宠坏了他们吧！或许那些族群的医生认为我们护士是他们的“佣人”，多于“同事”，因此认为“佣人”该做的小事情。

我想强调的是，这里是指某些比较懒惰的医生，不是统一化所有医生都是那样。本人也见过自己亲历亲为的好医生。

劳累后的感言

充满挑战，充满希望，努力向前。我相信我会聪明的一天，努力的结果即将到来。

别以为我善良可以被滥用；别以为我什么都不会；别以为我的怠慢浪费时间。
其实，善良是我对你们的尊敬；我不会，是因为我在学习；我怠慢，是因为刚学习的我确保没有错误。

无论如何，在此要感谢对我细心教导的前辈们，支持着我的朋友和新同事。你们在我人生中点起了明亮灯。^^

A hectic day

Morning shift, till 2pm--> 2.30pm to 3.30pm Infection control Talk --> 3.40pm to 5pm Advanced resuscitation presentation by other staff nurses.

Back to home at 6pm--> Dinner till 6.30pm--> met friends who just came back from Penang trip 630pm to 730pm

IN SUMMARY, today I feel very happy by learning from the infection control talk and resuscitation presentation. I feel that I am more well-equipped when dealing with emergency case and more knowledegable as a staff nurse. Now I realised that I really love learning.

I hope that I could have such satisfaction everyday. Only with that, I would feel motivated to work hard everyday.

HOWEVER, I could not guess the hint behind the Sister's verbal word. Sister was asking if I have any doubt during working time... She looked at me few seconds, then I asked her"anything?Sister?". She replied, " you are quite systematic in work, but....something need to..must act fast la." Did some nurses complained about me? I do not know.
Anyway, if people complained me slow in doing work, I would not mind because I am still new and I want my job being carried without any mistakes. So far, I did not do any big mistakes. And sorry if i asked too much.

Sign Sign Sign!

DDA drug

Incident 1

Somebody sat on a chair and yelled,"Ho, come and sign here(DDA drug check book) for me"

me,"can you give me the key to me to check the DDA?"

- excuse me, I only sign if I really see the stocks are available. You thought you ask me to sign then i'll sign blindly, weren't you? Thought I have no brain? If there was lost of drug, do you protect my nursing license?

Incident 2

After somebody A asked me to sign the DDA book blindly, somebody B asked me to help A sign it. She said, "yes yes, you can sign". I said," erm...I think you have better to ask the person who checked DDA this morning to sign it"

- I didn't even check the DDA this morning, just ask me to sign blindly? again sign sign sign.

Pre-operation Checklist

Somebody said, "SN Ho, can you please help me to verify the checklist?"

While I was looking through the checklist in order to check whether she has completed the checklist, she asked, "can you please JUST sign?". I ignored her, continued checking the checklist then only verify the checklist for her.

-excuse me, you are staff nurse or I am staff nurse? Anything happen people blame you or blame me?Don't teach me how to do my job. If you want to ask somebody to sign blindly, don't ever ask me again.

In conclusion, people here just love to give their signatures.Perhaps not all. I believes there are few of staff nurses very responsible in their jobs. Just couldn't stand with the culture of "BLINDLY SIGN".

2nd week Staff Nurse

Today did IM Pethidine 50mg for the patient at the gluteal muscle, and IV Maxalon 10mg through IV branula.
At night, managed to withdraw blood for INR blood sample.

I am happy today becoz managed to prepare drug with syringe n needle, which I hardly do when I was student or when there were many staffs working same shift with me.
The working environment today was not stressful coz the staffs were all nice and helpful. In addition to this, I was able to take my time to do nursing care or procedures.

The First Week Staff Nurse

4 Aug 2010 (Wed) - First day: very disorientated about the environment in the ward. Observing around.

5 Aug 2010 (Thurs) - 2nd day in the ward. Many ppl in the ward asked me to find a better opportunity. Was hanging round in the ward only due to lack of guidance.

6 Aug 2010 (Fri) - The 3rd day nurse was asked some questions by a student, unable to answer, still haven't refreshed back what she learnt. Started some learning objectives for herself everyday.

7 Aug 2010 (Sat) - Was getting demotivated to go to work. Tried to stand strong.

8 Aug 2010 (Sun) - Started to carry out nursing procedures, such as dressing. Found the job is more meaningful compared to past few days.

9 Aug 2010 (Mon) - Getting adapt to the new environment. More able to function in the ward. Asked a senior staff nurse M for supervision in giving medication, was being taught by her THOROUGHLY in the whole shift. Feel can learn more from her- became more motivated now. However, feel a bit stress from the way she taught me (Everybody saw the way she increased her tone while teaching me and always unable to answer her questions).

10 Aug 2010 (Tues) -Staff nurse M said worried about me- whether I can survive in the ward. Started to query about myself- whether I can be a competent nurse. These few days was very blur, non-competent, loss of 70% of the learnt knowledge. Life getting more challenging. Feel more stress. Tried to spend some time to revise my knowledge.

Conclusion: Nevertheless, the staff and assitant nurses are all very helpful and friendly. Those who join the hospital for one month are helpful, supportive and friendly. One of them teach me even I didn't ask anything, one of them always listen to my complaint. They are all really Angels for me! ^^