:. juz noreen .:

Being in the shoes of a nurse, You see ugly singaporeans almost everyday of your life. If it’s service you need, service is rendered. But it ain’t any service, it’s service from the heart. We do our best to serve the sick so they deserve their best care, comfort, love and concern and hence.. they’ll get better and be able to go home to their own loved ones.

But if you get relatives "FROM HELL".. let’s be honest. We just called them "F". They brought hell along with them to the hospital. They demand things to be done STAT. Now means like RIGHT NOW. Soon is define as NEVER to them.

Honestly, those are the ugly singaporeans who treated their own kind like animals and their own maids.

Please eh. We do have diplomas and degrees just like U do. If those people are categorize as those who are out to ruin our dream of a perfect career, how about those who are out to find faults at what the healthcare professionals do just to find a way to sue the hospital? What do i call them? Sicko ? freako? Or plain simply..alil bit over the edge & freaking insane.

For example. Having a notebook & documenting every single thing that is done to the patient, at this particular time, by this particular staff, & what the staff just did & said. They even have rotating shifts between their own relatives to take over.

" 2000hrs - SN Noreen came over & gave Mum an injection "

Like WASSUP? Give us sum space to breath. It’s like having your boss watching your every movement during work. Even my nurse managers don’t do that.

I know they’re worried or either that finding ways to sue the hospital but i think it’s just wayy too much. We are always there to update them about their mother if theyneed to. But documenting our every movement? It’s an ugly sight to watch. I’m really disappointed. Freaks.

And they are really pests during non-visiting hours. Contaminating my breathing space.

I’m so doing something. Coz i’m in-charge tomorrow.

*Nite* =)

Work was busy busy as always. I’m doing in-charge for my team as usual. But luckily i had some help too from my other staff nurses. I only went for break for 10minutes! Ate polar hotdog roll, drank sum milo and i’m on the go again.

Before that, my other staff nurses went for their breaks and i was the only one left in-charge to run the ward. I had to help out my colleagues’ patient… this old malay lady.. Her condition is really deteteriorating. Her body has really bad fluid retention.. it’s oozing through her skin pores from her left hand and body. Her urine catheter balloon that was use to stabilize its placing in her bladder leaked and the catheter came out by itself. That was due to her uv prolapse (her womb was completely out from her vagina). That added to to the pressure( plus her fluid retention) and causes the catheter to slipped out. The patient wet her pampers and if it wasn’t clean up the uv prolapse will get infected.   

So my colleague shidah called me to help. A Piece of REd skin is protuding out of her urethra! Shidah & i was hesitant to catheterize her but i told shidah we give it a shot. Success! One down one more to go. I had to clean up the uv prolapse. Sterile technique - flushing with saline to clean the prolapse, put some premarin cream and end it with moist gauze of saline to wrap around the prolapse. Phew~

When i exit the curtain, i was talking to the patient’s daughter to update her abt her mum when my other colleague called me saying my own patient is having chest pain. That patient’s daughter went blardi hysterical thinking her mother is having a heart attack. And she was freaking screwing and shouting @ the HO dr. Just because she saw the HO reading more abt that her mum’s casenotes.

She screamed: "My mother is having a heart attack and you are just SITTING there! My mother is having a heart attack!" ECG was done. i Called the MO dr. Told my junior to take the patient’s vital signs and put her on Oxygen via nasal prong. I quickly ran to get the Sublingual GTN and put it under her tounge. She was just having a chest pain.

5minutes later the MO arrived. By then the GTN have taken place. The patient already felt better. Slight chestpain. Vitals stable. Took some blood and i sent as urgent. By 15minutes, she was COMPLETELY fine. But it wasnt over for the patient’s daughter, she was literally screaming the whole WARD and demands an explanation for the HO’s action.

Now, All i can say is: "HEY LADY, we just saved and stabilize ur mother’s life and this is how u repay us". People nowadays are really blardi ungrateful. like seriously. And i got to know that previously when her mum was admitted she was being blardi "F" to everyone else too. She even called the HO "STUPID". But her mother has always been NICE to us.

When the blood result came back, it was normal. She was only having some muscle strains on her chest.

For people who read this, the healthcare professionals need to be treated with respect. We work and slave our butts and do extraordinary things that people don’t do everyday. Take credit on what we do. And pls be considerate.