Shhhh.. Do not disturb!!

That's what's written on the back of our jacket which we need to put on during medication rounds, expecting no one to disturb us while dispensing medicines to prevent errors. But does it work?

Patients, patient's relatives and doctors still walk up or call us from faraway .. disrupting our medication rounds. Worst still if it's our very own nursing officers or clinicians. They are the ones who wants us to put on the jackets , and yet, they are the ones who would come interrupt with our work flow.

Maybe they can't see that we are wearing the jacket. Well it used to be lighter blue, close to our blue scrub.. that could be the reason that the jacket is now changed to dark maroon, so that people can notice it better..

but what's the use if these people kept coming to us. So who needs to change? the people around us or the jacket?

there's actually no need for any jacket to be worn since no one reads the message behind my back.. and most of the time, we are facing the patients , so how can we expect them to know what's written behind my back. Well of cos, they will be able to read it once i turn around.. but then we won't have the same patient everyday. Somemore, most of the patients cannot read English!! No matter how big the sign is, it won't help!

I don't blame my patients or their relatives. they are not part of the system. whenever they come to us during medication rounds, we would not turn them down. and at the same time, we will explain about the use of the jacket on us.

but to those who are in the system, who created this system for donkey years.. They have no excuse..

Anyway, still i feel there's no need to put on the jacket, since we can't stop these people from coming to us. Super blind they must be.. isn't the medicine trolley big enough to indicate that we are serving medicine?!