HONESTLY?

Seriously. Today I was working the afternoon shift and I hate afternoon shifts because the weather gets too hot and humid. And afternoon seems boring because I don't get to do much changes and my reports are restricted to I & E (We go by the format of APIE Assessment, Plan, Implementation, Evaluation) unless that fellow comes out with a brand new problem for me to focus otherwise I am usually begging for work to do until the EN comes along with a stack of pink folders.. sigh. Struggling life of a student.

But I digress. Afternoons come evenings which everyone gets off work and suddenly a whole lot of relatives swarming in. Every cubicle you will see a mix of Malays (the whole family comes and picnic with him - trays of food), of Chinese (standing around, talking loudly and wiping body), and Indians (food and drinks and conversing loud too). It is almost scary to walk INTO the cubicle sometimes because everyone would start to ask you to do something. IT IS NOT LIKE I DONT WANT TO, BUT I ONLY HAVE TWO HANDS AND TWO LEGS. Sometimes Singaporeans act like they are damn big because they are in the hospital and they paid the subsidized amount. Go figure.

And the worst part is? Interrupting you while you are serving medication. There is a reason why we do wear a vest (not me but the nurses but I get irritated while I am serving medication) that consists of 4 languages, English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil that prints:

Medication Serving Rounds, Do Not Disturb.

Seriously our vest is in fluorescent orange. Suddenly everyone needs a visit to the ophthalmologist! They would just interrupt:

"Sorry, my father passed motion, can you clean him up?"
"Sorry my father wants to go to toilet, can you bring him?"
"Sorry my father needs to move his pillow, can you move?"

How about this, this is the best.

"Sorry, my father's handphone is not ringing, can you please help him to see if the phone is working?"


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Seriously this diploma and super low pay is getting harder and harder to get. Seriously we are seriously a nurse, a maid, a punching bag, a middleman, and not last and not least, a hp repair woman. Honestly this is getting too absurd, our scope of duty has suddenly widen. We need more recognition behind all these care organizing. Singaporeans need to know their limits. We are honestly not maids, if you want some to serve you on hand on foot, get someone else, not the nurses. Quite sick of being treated like shit, like some low class citizen, like WE OUGHT TO DO IT.

Stop abusing the nurses. We don't get paid much yet we are treated like some labour that everyone gets to abuse. Look at China, their nurses are more focused in the patient care, NOT PATIENT'S NEED, their family members bathed them, cleaned them, feed them, did everything for them. Look at this Singaporeans, sometimes it hurts to even look.

It is not as though I don't enjoy this job, but people need to know their limits and it is wearing my passion thin. I salute to those long serving nurses, they came a hard time.

For now I am going to sleep and rest my bones so that I can 'serve' people tomorrow.

"SORRY CAN YOU FIX MY FATHER'S HANDPHONE?"

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(sorry it is too ridiculous i have to do it again)