first hospital exposure

Today, it's official. I'm now finally on my "break". a one-week break after 6 weeks of summer. one week which ought to be spent enrolling. but argh, the institution's getting on my nerves again. i've been there this morning to enroll and guess what, our grades haven't been released yet! so I can't enroll yet. a-nnoying! i had my mind set on finishing things up today for I might be busy over the week with dental appointments.. as I had said, the dentist's rushing on putting me on ortho right now... tho I don't know, I've decided to go back to Dr. Nubla whom I seem to trust more. the other just irritates me at the fact that she made me undergo surgery... when I don't really know if it's really necessary. and to think, my tita doesn't really know her that much pala. wow, thanks ha! thanks for referring someone you don't know much.

anyway, blogging about hospital duties....

for this summer, we've been scheduled to have 2 weeks of hospital exposure... or equivalent to 51 hours duty. first week (MTW), my sched was from 6AM to 12nn at the Aguilar ward. it was okay but the time seemed sooo long (actually, that part was pretty much constant whatever the sched was). the sad part was that on the second day (wednesday... it's just the second day cos monday was orientation), my patient had been discharged so I had to be assigned to another one. I was awaiting week 2 cos at least then, duty would start at 12nn (for MTW). It was quite hard having to leave the house at 5:15am, considering we had to be at the hospital 15 minutes before duty time.

MTW, 12nn-6pm slot. i thought it would be better for me but no, I actually prefer the morning slot. during these days, i felt so disoriented. i didn't know what time to eat, to dress up, etc..... i didn't know how to go about my "routine". Thankfully though, I was transferred to Station 3... the ward where Ge-An was. Not that I didn't have any company at the Aguilar ward but I just missed Ge-An. Sad that I was leaving ate Chris at the Aguilar ward but at least I was gonna be with Ge-An, Lani, Tabs! but the hard part at Station3 was that the Nurses' station was "secluded". Unlike in Aguilar ward, where we stayed "within" the Nurses' station, where we could just go ahead and get the patient's charts,... in Station 3, it didn't seem that way. We had to ask our CIs to get it for us... or sometimes, we even asked the nurses na... at times, the nurses would tell us to just go in but we didn't want to. it's like: nakakahiya. But basically, though I had friends with me, kadamay ko lang talaga sina Ge-An and my partner, Maricar. busy kasi si Lani eh, sobra! nurse na nurse na my gosh!while kami ni Ge-An, wala lang... tulala. haha. and, just as in the case of Ate Chris and I in the other ward, we also had nothing to say to each other. odd. as we had agreed, being in the hospital made us feel like we had been imprisoned, like we had been sent off to military school, or something. we felt like robots, like slaves. Sure, I was overwhelmed to be in a hospital... but not in this way, not as a nurse. I really am awaiting my "doctor days".

the Good News came. Wednesday.
the CIs gathered us around for a quiz and an announcement. NO DUTY ON FRIDAY. hoooray! we all wanted to shout for joy! we almost did until the CI quickly added: WALANG SISIGAW. whoops! talk about anticipation haha. yes, I guess we somehow forgot we were in a hospital.



6PM - 12MN. Thursday. This is definitely the shift for me. I was soooo hyper that my friends noticed. Ge-An kept laughing at me na nga eh... i was acting strangely, talking endlessly, being so hyper. night person talaga ako. haha. nocturnal. so was Lani that night, as she only had one patient as well. the funny part was when she was making fun out of the construction workers in the other building... haha oh no! Lani ha.tsktsktsk. And also, funny was when we tried to come up with ways to avoid "Maricar's situation" for the night. hahaha! oh the excuses, oh the tactics. Oh, and i'll never forget the memory of that nurse na naki-epal sa saya namin ni Ge-An as we found ourselves amazed at the hospital's windows... haha. and that lady who asked: "San ung papunta sa baba?" or something like that and Ge-An and I were so pissed that we wanted to reply: "Paano ka nakaakyat?!". haha.
Overall, I'm glad my last duty ended up this way, I'm glad it was this fun. i guess you could say it was basically was a night of laughter. haha. at least i'm not gonna be dreading the next duty as much as i would if it had been otherwise.