Bullied by a 7-yr old

It was like hell in ward X6. Can't wait to end this posting. Though they can be cute and adorable and pitiful.. i don't know how to care for the children in the peadiatrics medical ward. They are as young in theire weeks old to up to 16yrs old.

In my ward cubicle, only one little 7yr old boy whom i couldn't handle.. he bullied me.. took my hand , pulled me here and there.. turned me around and twisted my hand ..so very hard. It's like he doesn't know what pain is all about! I wanted to scream and scold him on the spot..all i did was smile and try talk nicely to him cos there were parents and caregivers all over the ward! I can't stand him.. i hope he will be discharge anytime this week, best still, today.. i hate this kid! I would rather work in a childcare than in here. It's helllll for the rest of my 10 day in this ward! Now i appreciate Tan Tock Seng Hospital!

There's this 2-yr old boy- with big big eyes.. he is the best! Easy kid, smart and independent.. unfortunately, i heard from other caregivers that, his parents were never or seldom seen in the ward. Young parents i guess. So sad.. why is it that it is always the case.. i hope his parents can see that they have a wonderful baby boy and to appreciate what they've got.

He's admitted for asthma. I was not familiar on how to adminster his medication.. he took the inhaler and spacer from my hands, and with his gestures, he demonstrated on how to use it. He caught the attention of the other student nurses around me.. and we were amazed! Among other things, he can feed himself, play by himself, sleep when told to do so.. and seemed to understand whatever we're saying to him. "Gimme this kid.. i take"

2 weeks Peadiatrics Posting at KK Hospital

Ok.. i am not looking forward to this posting at all.. anything got to do with KK Hospital, I am totally not interested. Why? Cos, it involves mums-to-be, newborns and children. To some extent , it gives me some pressure.

I will be asked of the same old questions again and again. It's like Chinese New Year.. when relatives asked why we don't have children or when or aren't we going to have any. Oooo.. u know having one is a must... well of cos i would like to have one... why ask me? wonder if the men got questioned too.. ? InFertililty or not ... I think such questions should not be asked.. they must stop questioning childless couple.. it can be very sensitive to some, for some may not have the answer for it.. or some wants it to be confidential... or some just don't like to talk about it .. i just feel that it's quite insensitive of those who asked.

I hope I won't breakdown when i see sad cases.. I hope i don't need to help any social workers to translate in malay.. i will get affected by their family affairs and child's condition. I hope i don't get too emotionally attached to any of the children so that i can leave the ward without having to think too much about their illness and how they gonna to cope...

Going to take a short nap now.. my shift starts at 1pm, ends at 9pm.

I wish I could skip this posting... it's gonna be a long day..

Home Nursing experience

Last week's 3 days attachment with Home Nursing was fun. Travelling by foot from Newton to St.Micheals to Towner to Whompoa.. phew.. i can't exactly remember the places.. it was all totally new to me.. places where i never been to. We then, understood why we need to bring umbrella. I am a little bit tanned now.

Together with me were my classmate, Poh Yen and Group 7's, Yee Hong. We tagged with 2 staff nurses.. SN Yeo and SN Crystal. They were fantastic. We were given chance to practice insert Naso-gastric tube, urinary catherization and wound cleaning. Most of the patients are diabetic with cavity wound on their foot and some already gone to gangrene stage, the wounds were big and some smells too..one lady do not want to amputate.. she said she would rather die. Most of the older patients have bed sores.
oh... i do not want to grow old suffer like this..

We can tell how well these patients are taken care of, by their maids or family members by assessing the way they maintain their home. It does not mean that living in a condo, the best care is given to the sick elderly..
I observed that the ones living in 2/3 room flat, takes pride in caring for their loved ones eventhough they have limited means of living.. Nothing else matters to the caregivers or people at home.. what matters most are caring for the sick elderly.. they really go all out- they placed the hospital bed in the living room and that took up a half of the place.. and not to exclude, the things they need by the bedside.. salute to them all. This is what i call, patient-care centred.

In this posting,we got an emergency call to attend to a male patient whose penis bleed, traumatised by the no of times,where the other incontinence-trained nurse, had tried to insert the urinary catheter into him. So we went even though, our staff nurse is not trained to do that. That trained nurse had used up 3 catheter set and we do not carry one at all. So, we had to go to another patient's house to borrow one.

By the time we were there, it stopped bleeding and his maid took good care of his penis. The man was about 60 plus and uncommunicative. His private part was so clean and we really had to say to the maid what a good job she has done for cleaning up the mess. Amazingly the SN finished the job, with confidence ...and the 3 of us just look at it.. I thought we need to hold the penis for about a few minutes for the lignocant to take effect. I was like counting away... but in about 20 secs, the SN inserted the 16F tube into the meatus. When we left the place, three of us couldn't hide our expression, though embarrassed, but finally all of us got to say this " the maid cleaned the head of the penis till it shines! " We laughed, continued with our next mission- to insert an NG tube, the patient pulled it out when we had just inserted it that same morning. The maid did not restraint him... we were so tired, the weather was so hot.. but we are happy with what had been accomplished at the end of the day.

I feel that 3 days of home nursing posting is not enough. Home nursing care gave us confident and it was an eye opener- to be able to be see how people, rich or poor, care for the sick at home.

SHS Attachment

We were at the School of Health Service for 2 days from 8-9th Nov. The best part about this attachment was having the chance to work closely with some of the nursing students from other groups.. and getting to know some better.






Didn't exactly enjoy the attachment for one reason or because of someone who actually pissed me off. One particular person boiled me up. Can never and will never want to understand him. He's such a mummy boy who has no guts to come up to me to tell me his concerns, but instead told the whole whole...

I suggested that he should just be one of the debaters since we did discussed about the topic and i was confident that he could do it.. for a man, jus stand up and do it, no big deal.. he can talk .. and he talks loud and big too.. so that we don't have to re-ballot to find another speaker.. but of cos if he don't want to.. he can jus tell me.. but why must broadcast! Not happy, say lah.. brother!

The following day.. i gave him no face at all, infront of others, clarified the issue that i did not arrow him ( though.. i know others may jus want to tekan him), explained to him the reason why i chose him.. but then, i gave him a disgusted look, really couldn't stand him...told him that i have over-estimated him and he is such a coward, i must say! And guess what.. i heard that he was going to complaint to the SHS facilitators.. uhhh what a joke! Eh..Mr Missy .. who cares la..! '

I didn't want to be mean to u but u pissed me off too! I have heard some unacceptable yet funny working attitude of yours and the way your classmates treated u, but yet I have always been nice to u . I guess u must be very suprised now that you know how mean i can actually be. After that incident, U will never get to see the nice side me... I will treat u like a child instead, since u acted like one. I don't care or mind if u hate me.. sometimes i feel like i want to shake u up and make u realise the things that u do, did and done were so uncalled for.. and to realised that there are a whole bunch of people who couldn't stand the sight of u. I thought i could be one of ur few friends whom u can approach to if u need a fren to talk but, too bad.. now i can't stand the sight of u too. Aiyoh.. why do i bother too much about all this...!!! Maybe i pity u..

U know some pple say that why be mean to u.. the whole world already against u.. don't be like that la.. but u know, who cares ! Actually we are doing u good .. better to tekan u now, rather than u kena from the sisters and senior nurses in the ward.. but anyhow.. anyway.. who cares!

All i have to say to u : "u are no gentleman, damn coward, sissy missy.. sorry, but that's u!"

2005 Hari Raya Puasa

This Hari Raya marked the last day of my exams. A tough, tiring month.. having to fast and posted to hospitals. But the toughest was having to study for exams at Mac Donalds.. so challenging! But most of the time ..i felt sleepy.. Well it's all over now and back to normal.. Posting not over yet till 16 Dec followed by 2 weeks break before the New Year starts. Since the ultra marathon is sometime during my hols, i may consider taking part again.. want to make it to 6 laps this time round.. so better start training. And as for the Singapore Marathon.. hmmmm i'm not going. Maybe will go meet and support the SG runners and M'sian runners.. take photos!