Archive for the ‘Nursing Rants’ Category

Guilty Nurse

As soon as the FX driver dropped me off at McDonald’s P.Campa branch, I hurriedly went up the foot bridge to be able to pay my tuition fee before lunch break. At the foot bridge, I saw some people clamoring for help. I thought a crime happened in the middle of a hot humid day. [...]

ICU Nurse… Not?

Dear ICU Staff Nurses, Just because I am not allowed to carry heavy things nor turn patients every 2 hours, doesn’t mean I am not qualified as an ICU nurse. I know that part of the routine care is turning the patient but I don’t think I cannot do the other nursing interventions. In case [...]

I am still here.

It’s been almost two months since I last posted here. Blame the very busy schedule. I think I was able to survive the month of February when my most dreaded schedule started. One and a half month of sleepless nights and stress. And here I am, still very tired and diagnosed with tonsillopharyngitis. To tell [...]

Backer, where art thou?

For the past few months, I have been really bitter with staff nurses who got in easily because of their backers. I hate the fact that it’s really happening in our society. It’s really WHO you know that matters nowadays. But when I was given the chance to volunteer in a public hospital, I learned [...]

A Mother's Anguish

You know what’s really tormenting? It’s when you only have one thousand bucks left in your pocket which you’re going to spend to buy a medicine for your child who’s in a very critical state of illness… Then all of a sudden, it’s gone. It was stolen by a heartless evil in a very peaceful [...]