3 days more and I officially graduated from my Advance Diploma course to resume back my full fledged RN status. Kinda excited, yet sad... Yeah, I have been looked down by many other staff from different department thinking I am just a newbie student who has no knowledge or experience but yet I enjoy the freedom of walking away from such people instead of arguing with them (lessen my responsibilities and save my time listening to crappy orders or comments made by them).
Yesterday was a good example of never belittle a Advance Diploma student...
Doctor: who is the nurse in charge of bed 24 patient?
Me: I am.
Doctor (looking at me up & down): erm, I mean in charge of this bed 24 patient.
Me: I?
Doctor: You are just a student, how can u be in charge, how come this ward allow a student to take charge of patients? Who is in charge of you then?
(Another RN walks up) RN: Nevermind, you can tell me the orders, I would then pass the message over to the in charge.
Me to the RN: Later, you tell me what is going on... (walks away)
Moments later...
RN: Amelia, the doctor say the patient's medication is very funny and she has taken 5 of the medication already?
Me: What medications are you talking about? Where is the medication now?
RN: I don't know, the medications are her own medications from home and she has consumed 5 of it!
Me: What is name of the medication?
RN: I don't know, the doctor just told me like that!
Walks over to the doctor...
Me: Excuse me, what message did you tell my colleague to tell the in-charge, who is me???
Doctor: I told her that the patient is allergic to Panadol but yet she has been taking her own medications which contains Panadol for many years. Anyway, she refuses to hand over her 5 tablets which is left with her as she says that the medication is hard to get and she rather keeps it on her own.
Me: .... (walking away to the patient to convince her to let us handle her medications)
What a distorted message I got!!!!
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