About Me.
*~Rosaline Tan~*
19+ years old
NP Health Sciences (Nursing)
COS(BT), Youth Impact
Passionates
cutie_pier@hotmail.com
[ .loves. ]
purple,roses,rum n raisin,truffles,
salmon,apple struddel,scuba diving,
japanese food,furry animals,
babies,dancing,painting,rollerblading
stars,auroras,shopping,skating,
chilling out at night,oceans,nature,
taking photos,cycling,squishing my toes in the soft sand,
baking:)
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
nursing attachment 1st
9:29 pm
This attachment is really an eye opener for me…saw lots of cases…lots of suffering and pain…all of which I have never seen nor experienced before. I don’t think I can get used to it. It makes my heart heavy each time I see my patients suffering… I don’t think I want to get used to it anyway, I don’t want to become an indifferent nurse. But for an emotional person like me, it’s really affecting me… At the polyclinic, I felt sad about the baby who lost his father who committed suicide, and grossed out at the open cavity wounds. At the Hospital, I was traumatized by the suffering of the patient with trachea infection who had to go through tremendous pain…I saw the whole procedure of the suctioning of his lungs; it’s the case in which one student nurse fainted after that…It is really that sickening. And at the Nursing home, there’s the stroke patient who was in great pain as her limbs were stretched by the Care assistant mercilessly. I had to bite my tongue to restrain myself from crying as I hear her cry and moan…I had to keep a straight face… Oh God… I need extra strength to face all these…
Thursday I went to Nursing Home. Twas my first time carrying and feeding patients…the feeding part was ok. The carrying part was a moment of panic. None of the staff nurses were around when I wheeled the patient back to her bed. After that I found out that the patient needed help to get on the bed. For a few moments I forgot how to carry my patient, because I never tried on real patients. Thank God I came back to my senses and remembered. And goodness, she was so heavy. Thank God I didn’t drop her. Or there would be big trouble because I wasn’t instructed by the nurse to carry her to bed. I was still a student nurse. It didn’t cross my mind to call the other nurses then, they were so far away anyway. But it was successful. Whew. And goodness, I really have to hug the patient close to me in order to carry the patient using good body mechanics and ensuring safety of the patient. Otherwise, it’s really quite impossible. Moreover, I’m so short. Hmm, I think I smile too much, I should smile less.
