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Posted in Musing, Nursing Internship with tags , , on 26 February 2008 by Richmond

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Read my Lips

Posted in Nursing Internship, Stupid, The Author with tags , on 13 February 2008 by Richmond

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We’ve just completed all our cases so everyone was happy and Leslie was suggesting to celebrate by singing it all out at a Karaoke Cubicle.

The hospital where we came from was extra far from my house so I delayed my urge to poop that morning. I wasn’t really feeling as intense to dump at that time when we have finally finished our shift in the delivery room and were traveling homeward, but due to its distance I didn’t think that coming with them to sing in a videoke would be such a great idea.[In case]

Anyway I told them that I can’t come and Leslie surely was upset. She frowned and said something I was not able to hear. There were other people in the Jeepney so I just mouthed back, “Na-ta-ta-e–a-ko.”(I feel like defecating) to appease her.

She didn’t seem to understand what i said, so I mouthed again, “Na-ta-ta-e–a-ko.”(I feel like defecating).

And for the third time, I tried to mouth again, and as I mouthed the words, another jeepney tried to overtake us and turned left. I was sitting at the jeepney’s door, on the right side, so I was directly in front of the other vehicle’s right side, clearly seen through its wide window. As I mouthed the words and as the other vehicle gained at us and leaned towards left, I saw a girl on the other jeepney’s window giggling with her finger pointing at me saying something to her friend, who immediately turned her head and looked at me.

It was like.. “Nata-” I saw the girl smiling “tae” boom she pointed her finger “ako” and laughed with her friend. In an ordinary setting I would have blushed but since we were, technically, at different places, I was really amused.

PS I want to greet Skinny Angel a Happy Happy Birthday! 25 ka na! Gurang ka na! HAHAHA

Miss Gay Strikes Again

Posted in Nursing Internship with tags , , on 9 February 2008 by Richmond

Ash Wednesday- As the group’s Head Nurse, I have to supervise all my groupmates’ tasks in our duty in the payward, I have to delegate patients, check if anything is wrong, make prescriptions of ordered medications(which the staff nurses sign), answer to all the patients’, relatives’ and my classmates’ queries and all.

Our CI made it clear that since we are graduating within a few weeks time, he expects us the standard of a real registered nurse, in short he has the right to leave me with Neil as my Vital Signs Nurse and to roam around God knows where.

The payward is like a mini prototype of the whole public tertiary hospital where we were interning. It has its own Surgical, Medical, OB, Pedia wards, and private rooms. My CI instructed me to delegate one patient each to my classmate while I have to take care of the rest. This wasn’t really hard since I handled 30 plus patients when I was in the Pediatric ward just three weeks ago as a Vital Signs Nurse (and I had to monitor, record and graph all their Vital Signs).

During the first hour Rose and Loren approached me and asked me about their patients’ IVs. The bottles were about to drain. Since the nurse was still using the charts they have to ask me since I was the one who endorsed the clients to them. I checked my Cardex and gave the necessary IV bottles.

While I was assisting Rose as she change her patient’s bottle, Loren came running into the room and told me that Miss Gay was insisting to let her change her boyfriend’s IV Bottle, so I said no. I made it clear to Loren that she’s the one responsible to her patient and whatever might happen to him, she’ll be the one liable. Besides she’s not even from our school.

I really do not care about the Miss Little Philippines VS Miss Gay feud, but she really was a nightmare. I had many a chance meeting patients with Medical Doctor and Registered Nurse relatives, but none of them acted this way. Loren, Aiza, Melanie, everyone inside the surgical ward had something to say against her. She’s a total headache, so when I passed by the ward and saw her lying on an empty bed, I told Loren to tell her that relatives are not allowed lto lie down on the beds. Loren told her so, but she acted as if she didn’t hear her. So Loren asked our CI’s help… and finally, we have confirmed, our CI is no match against her.

Little Miss Philippines vs Miss Gay

Posted in Nursing Internship with tags , on 1 February 2008 by Richmond

Nursing Student from other School: Tayo nga kayo. Alam nyo ang gaganda nyo, dapat sumali kayo sa Little Miss Philippines. (Can you please stand up . You girls are pretty, you should join Little Miss Philippines.)

Aiza: Alam mo ang ganda mo. Dapat sumali ka sa Miss Gay. (You know what, you’re pretty. You should join Miss Gay)

Actually that’s what my classmates’ imagined reply to the girl’s sarcastic remark about their heights. “Imagined” because they didn’t say anything.

Loren, Melanie, Rose, and Aiza are small but we do not dare make fun of their heights (we usually joke about their cup sizes hehe). But the girl really had it going. Joking about my classmates’ height is like burning a North Korean Flag on the North-South Korean border… it’s a war. But I was surprised that they didn’t talk back. They sourly smiled to the girl and bitterly listened to her stories about herself and her boyfriend who was confined in our ward.

Just after the girl left, Melanie, Aiza, and Rose went inside our locker room furious and told us about their little encounter and about what they should have said. Aiza was red-faced recounting her agonizing minutes listening and falsely smiling at her.

Haaayy.. but honestly, haven’t they tried to audition yet? (wink wink)