The Evaluation Day

 (UPDATED: November 16, 2007 2:49PM)

True or False?1.) Human Placental Lactogen induces further insulin production in pregnant women?
2.) The so-called Accelerated Starvation is caused by the rapid conversion of glucose to glycogen?
3.) Macrosomia is caused by the increase of serum glucose of the mother?
4.) Intrauterine Growth Retardation (IUGR) happens when the placental perfusion is increased?
5.) Polyphagia is caused by increased in urination?
6.) In Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GMD), polyuria is caused by the kidneys’ insufficiency to reabsorb water back to the system?
7.) Estrogen inhibits the production of Insulin?

Enumeration: for numbers 8 to 10, give the full names of your head nurses.

This was the part that I made for the 45-point quiz that we, head nurses and our Clinical Instructor, prepared for the written examination this afternoon.

Today has been really toxic. However, being able to boss around those minions is a really unique experience. There are times when I just roll my eyes when they ask me about things that are so basic. I swear, our group was never like this, let alone on our first week duty in our second semester last year (READ THIS PLEASE!!! ). In fact, we were expecting that they are somewhat better that we were.

Last year, we only had ONE orientation prior to the whole year of nursing internship, and it was all just about the policies in all the institutions that we were about to enter. But this batch, they were fed with everything. They had an orientation about the policies, an orientation about medical and nursing ethics, an orientation on charting and its legalities, an orientation about making a case study, and orientations about a gazillion things that we only learned in our academic subjects or by sheer experience.

I mean, during the firstest first day (read this… and see how different we were than they are now) of our duty, after being terrorized about possible expulsions and incidental reports that we might garner by stepping out of the line inside the hospital, we were shamelessly banished to the jungle. Armed only with our knowledge that we have acquired the semesters before inside our school, they expected us to do well.

The third years… haaayyy. Some of them asked me about the simplest questions… someone even said, “Sir, mas mabuti naman yung Knowledge Deficit kesa Pain sa Nursing Diagnosis di ba?” (Sir, ‘Knowledge Deficit’ is a better Nursing Diagnosis than ‘Pain’, right?). Man, they don’t even know how to prioritize the problem. Of course Pain should be given more attention than lack of knowledge.

There was even a girl who wrote “Knowledge Deficit related to the woman’s first time in birth-giving” (or something like that) when it is clear that the woman is constipated due to her increase intake of Potassium.

But of course there are some who were really smart; all the boys are smart. And some of the girls are really sweet. K and J, I should say, are getting better in Charting (that is where we put all our Nursing Diagnoses and all our assessments.., even the managements and health teachings that we made… it is directly written on the patient’s medical record.)

 HAAAYYY!!! Buhay nga naman.