Miss Gay Strikes Again

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.