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Mirror: November 2012
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A Reflections of my musings. Saturday, 24 November 2012. Uncle, why you no shoot? I started out with a point-and-shoot when I was 18. Today I have a few cameras and a few more lenses, not to forget a couple of flash units. Still, the internship is kicking in the same month. Buy so many equipment for what? I wish I could turn back time but I can't; but if I could, I'm not sure if I would even remember to buy a different camera because there are too many things I wish I could go back in time to change.
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Mirror: May 2013
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A Reflections of my musings. Friday, 31 May 2013. Had the opportunity to send a patient out of the ICU for a special portrait session. It was a brain MRI. Although in some sense, the patient did get some wonderful pictures of himself taken in a room that functions like a photo booth. It was an eye-opening 20 minutes for me. However I noticed that my wristwatch has become slower by a few minutes overnight. Perhaps the strong magnetic field was the culprit. Monday, 20 May 2013. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Mirror: February 2013
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A Reflections of my musings. Thursday, 21 February 2013. The end of PRCP. It is nigh, it is nigh! One more morning shift to go and this internship in the Surgical ICU will be over. I doubt my sleep will be sufficient tonight. Just finished making thank-you-cards for the ward staff! Be room for improvement. Learning must never stop. I only pray that I will make progress in this journey of nursing, regardless of which department they put me in. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Mirror: One on Three
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A Reflections of my musings. Sunday, 13 October 2013. In the knowledge of how well my counterparts are coping in the general wards and the emergency department, there is nothing to boast about me taking charge of three patients in the high dependency unit today. It was a fine Sunday morning, and like most Sundays the ward was a little short on staffing, so the charge nurse from the shift before assigned me an extra patient to take care of. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Mirror: March 2014
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A Reflections of my musings. Tuesday, 18 March 2014. As I come to work on a Monday's night shift. Two other hospital staff follow soon after, taking with them an unconscious man to be admitted to the ICU. An hour later, the wife and daughter arrive, stunned and in tears as they look at the state in which their man of the house is. A few nurses speak to the ladies as I watch from a distance. I never went near the patient again for the rest of the shift. Has business been bad? What an irresponsible man.
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Mirror: Oh, shit.
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A Reflections of my musings. Wednesday, 12 February 2014. This patient came in from the ER to the High Dependency Unit for observation after experiencing chest pains. He asked for a bedpan, which I helped him onto. He seemed constipated, so I gave the man some privacy by turning to other work I could do while he pushed, pushed, and tried his best to let it out. Cutting the story short, the patient's face turned a bit pale with a very faint tint of purplish-blue! Who knew constipation could kill?
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Mirror: Kerosene
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A Reflections of my musings. Tuesday, 18 March 2014. As I come to work on a Monday's night shift. Two other hospital staff follow soon after, taking with them an unconscious man to be admitted to the ICU. An hour later, the wife and daughter arrive, stunned and in tears as they look at the state in which their man of the house is. A few nurses speak to the ladies as I watch from a distance. I never went near the patient again for the rest of the shift. Has business been bad? What an irresponsible man.
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Mirror: April 2013
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A Reflections of my musings. Sunday, 28 April 2013. As I vividly recall, I was on the streets of Johor Bahru a year ago, when I was still studying in Singapore. I remember travelling by foot a few kilometres to a vicinity where a street protest was to take place, and from reading about experiences of people who took part in a similar protest the year before, I learned to arrive a day early. Is the cause I am fighting for making progress? Sorry for my moments of faithlessness and frustrations. I just came...
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Mirror: January 2013
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A Reflections of my musings. Thursday, 24 January 2013. I should feel resentful no longer, for the days you gave me were the happiest dream I had ever lived. Sunday, 20 January 2013. At the ICU we monitor hourly vital signs, sedation score, urine output and a few other things relevant depending on the cases. Yesterday my patient had only 2ml or urine drained over two hours. This time the staff nurse accompanying me was busy so I decided to inform the medical officer on duty. Tuesday, 1 January 2013.
