Horrid Resonance
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' StoriesPosted on February 9th, 2010 by admin
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“Does she really know what she’s doing?” This question still resonates in the deepest corners of my soul.
It was supposed to be a relaxing weekend for me at the beach. The weather’s beautiful, the beach’s magnificent; everything’s perfect. I spreaded my sarong in the white powdery sand under a talisay tree. I sat there [...]
Logically Illogical is Logical
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' Stories, Nursing Industry in the PhilippinesPosted on February 1st, 2010 by admin
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Back in college, we were asked to go to the training hospital a day before our scheduled duty to make prior assessments on our assigned patients. We would usually wear our laboratory gowns inside the premises as regulations require that we wear it so the staff may identify us as students.
One time, as I [...]
Still Fallible
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' StoriesPosted on January 25th, 2010 by admin
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What will happen if a warrior of health becomes a victim of unwellness? Such an unlikely scenario but, you see, not really new to our senses.
Being a nurse, I am well aware that prevention is paramount when we are talking about health; even a non-nurse knows that. Perhaps I was just so carefree about this [...]
A Parcel of Pain
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' StoriesPosted on January 18th, 2010 by admin
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Last Friday, a family friend gave us a pair of love bird. It came with a set of circular cage and some small plastic cylindrical containers for the water and food. It was well obvious that my brother and sister loved it.
Such a pretty couple. Just when work have eaten me up, where everything [...]
Losing My Baby
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' StoriesPosted on January 11th, 2010 by admin
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I have been trudging the Pediatric Department for years. In fact, everything just seemed routinary for me. Therapeutic care is nothing more than scripted part of work.
This was the case until my Cedirc got sick. Holistic caring I learned during my Nursing School days went crashing on me. Reminiscing every bit [...]
Felt a Little Poke
Category: Filipino Nurses, Filipino Nurses' Stories, Nursing Industry in the PhilippinesPosted on January 4th, 2010 by admin
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I truly hope the assurance of safety for nurses in Philippine hospitals would be seriously addressed by the concerned authorities. Just recently, one of my colleagues suffered an occupationally-related accident—a needlestick incident. She can’t help but become paranoid; she is preoccupied that she might acquire an illness after that unfortunate incident.
The mishap that my colleague [...]
Something…
Category: Filipino Nurses, Nurses’ CareersPosted on December 28th, 2009 by admin
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Another christmas has passed and just few more days to go we’ll bid goodbye to 2009 (and hopefully to the misfortunes that we have experienced this year) and welcome 2010 with hopeful smiles. In my case, I still feel a bit squeamish and doubtful if I could really sing the “auld lang syne” merrily— could [...]