8/7/2019 insghts
2/2
Week 2 insights
Oxygen! Four litters per minute po!, one of the staff was saying
as a patient having
difficulty in breathing was brought in the emergency room. Yes
it was toxic, but I had to
do my obligations as a student nurse and immediately attach the
oxygen cannula to the
patients nostril orifices
Second week of the electives duty, and this time it would be a
full three days of duty.
Because I had already established rapport on some of the staff,
it was not hard for me
anymore to create a collaborative relationship among the members
of the health team in
the emergency room. On the first day of duty, I remembered doing
skin tests to a
number of patients, which I could rarely do in previous duties
at the ward. Truly, these
elective duties provide a lot of experiences on us student
nurses.
As the second and third days of duty came, it was making me
weary and fatigued
already because our first day of duty was an 11pm-7am shift. The
next day, we had thesecond duty at 3pm-11pm shift. That means we
only had 8 hours of rest between the 2
shifts of duty; and provided the fact that our bodies were not
yet oriented to this hectic
schedule, it really made us tired in the sense that our eyes
were already getting heavier
by the minute. Still, we had to do our duty, and attend to
patients needs with full
efficiency. We can never make it an excuse that we are tired to
provide patients with
less competent nursing care.
It is true that the second week was quite a punishment on our
physical body, but to our
mental and psychological being, it was a blessing. For because
of it, we are know much
knowledgeable on the true nature of how it is to work as real
nurse without thesupervision of a clinical instructor. Because of
this duty, I believe many of us are now
very confident when it comes to taking care of patients and
moving independently and
with initiative.
