Last, last Saturday

(This entry should have been posted last Saturday, but it was difficult for me to gather all the pictures. Thanks Lallaine!)

We finally turned our backs to the hospital that never let us set our feet in its elevator. Imagine climbing down to the ground floor from the fourth floor every time you want to pee.

According to my professor in Pediatrics and our Student

Head Nurses last week, Interns were barred from the elevator after a group from the previous batch played inside the elevator. It turned out that the whole group found an opportunity to take their photos one night inside the elevator. They barricaded the elevator and lifted it to the top floor.
Unknown to them, an emergency was happening in the third floor and an oxygen tank was ordered. The utilities were unable to bring the oxygen tank to the patient so the patient died.
What was really sad is that the patient was just 5 years old. The mother was so angry and devastated.
The Students were threatened to be dropped from the subject, but for an unkown reason they were spared and were just given an Incidental report each and were suspended for a whole week. (click images to enlarge)

And so that was the story…
… many more unfortunate events happened to some of the student nurses who had their duties there. The girl that was raped on the very first day of our internship was interning there that time. And also the girl who was robbed of with her cellphone and left with slashes on her wrist was also from that hospital. And will I ever forget the two Stdent Nurses ahead of us, who both died after acquiring Meningococcemia from their patient.

There are actually 15 of us in the group. 10 girls and 5 males (this is usually the ratio of sexes in Nursing schools) and add the two fourth year students who were with us as our Head Nurses.

Instead of having our usual duty, we had our comprehensive case study presentation last Friday. Before that, the whole group decided to meet in a nearby park, but I was unable to come… i decided not to come. Then we proceed to the rooftop were we had our case pres. so far it is the best.

Angelo doing the self-breast-examination

The group and our CI

while doing the case pres

views from the top.