some updates

i just deleted off a post cuz i felt bad about myself after reading my thots. anyway it was a post abt some people i met during my course of work. nope... not co-workers but some 'service related personels'.

generally it was something like this....

i don't value people who come into a c-class ward boasting how great a person they are and demand this and that. not that i look down on people living on social welfare but i hate the way some of them carry themselves. i am sorry if i offend but i felt that if they are 'sponging' off the tax-payer, should they not stop being so arrogant? is it some inferior complex that drives them to put others down and to boast abt their glorious history? i think people of every class and level ought to be humble and sensitive towards others, stop thinking abt urself!!!

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i chose to be a c-class ward cuz i want to nurse people that are generally more appreciative and less demanding. i love to empower them with medical knowledge of their medicines and general health care practices. but i realised that c-class tends to have a large amount of 'regulars'. they come in and out of the hospital so regular that after a few months, i could recall the person's name, typical diagnosis and diet preference just by hearing her name.

there are prons and cons to such situation. good thing is that we don't have to do much orientation for the client cuz she would already know how to handle the call bell, the schedules and where the toilet/ telephone/ tv is. of cuz it is also much easy to manage her since her medicine will be more or less the same set of regular ones and the tests/ management that will be ordered will be almost the same as the previous admission. so the workflow is so so so easy (provided the client is not a difficult person) and did i mention the client-nurse relationship would have already been well establish?

however the bad thing will be that such 'regulars' tend to know the routine too well and always can find new things to complaint and grumble abt! they will ask, why am i given only 1 pillow when the previous ward would provide me with 3. (but the fact is that 1- u don't need that many pillow, 2-there aren't any extra around!) the 'regulars' will also compare the working style of nurse A vs B and then try to stir shit saying things like "nurse A is so skillful with her work that i don't think u can ever learn. and she even told me that u are slow in ur work, is that so?" these clients know too much! knowledge is power but power corrupts! when used in the right way, such power strengthens and builds but when used in a destructive manner such power is hurtful and even abusive!