a flu which flew away...

a day after a lieu day off i quickly prepared to work, men how i love to sleep a few more minutes since its raining..i arrived in the hospital early before 7am... saw my wards and they are preparing to pass reports..it was a diffrent method of passing reports for this ward, they are all in one room and if you want to listen you have to make sure you're inside the room otherwise staying outside isnt benificial, so i waited outside the nurses station browsing and updating my sched and roster, few of the night shift staff are just waiting for their co shift to finish so they can go..they are friendly and from time to time converse and ask me question, siti ask me are there any dialects that i know other than tagalog, i answered back, "mi español es muy pobre"..she replied,"oh you speak spanish?!", i said.."hago pero no mucho"....well, what do you expect we been colonized like for three centuries, thats why our words has a lot of similarities...anyway... after passing report.. i made my rounds, few of my wards are doing bed bath, others are helping in changing bedsheets,the rest are inside the female toilet assisting patient while bathing, i wanted to peek but its a "no" here in singapore.. unlike back home, ive seen,cleansed, inserted a cath, swab, shaved a "puke".. its no big deal...its part of work... you get immuned in a way...so no matter how gorgeous a woman is, down there she still looks the same...ha ha ha....

i was not really feeling well, as in..we got three admissions early in the morning..i called one of my male wards to perform the admission, men there's really something wrong with how he pronounce "s"..instead he say as "sch".. well, lucky for him he has the local accent and patient still understands him..given a foreign patient and for sure words like "pardon, say it again, im sorry, come again, could you repeat that, i dont understand", will be thrown to his face repeatedly...but slowly he's gaining confidence as he ask questions related to the admission form, that's what i commented to him afterwards and he looks happy, i guess this is what this wards needed something to boost their confidence/ ego..from time to time give them verbal rewards and if your budget permits, something material, maybe they dont experience it that often..hah.. then i saw another ward of mine doing the admission so i quickly run towards her and check how she is doing..shes a bit lost on what to ask, it shows the lack of confidence, and to make things worst, this chinese relative whom she is interviewing seems to respond on a tone which indirectly tells her, i dont understand you..well, hes english is quite poor to begin with...there are still a number of locals who doesnt speak english that well,its good that other western countries still requires english exams for professional nurses as part of the requirement to work in their country although singapore is considered as first world country. I guess it goes the same, bring this people back home and they wont understand each other as well..

i remember my SH commented when she sat down and observe my teaching,that i have to change my accent so my wards can understand me better, well, i was thinking, i hope so, but no way also, i can always use the white board to write down what i say...

so after, i told my ward that "she needs to be more confident and do not be carried away or loose focus with some relatives or patients negative expression when they dont understand you..."..let them feel that these are needed thats why it is being asked....

a few minutes after, i cannot tahan...i left and checked out a nearby clinic for consultation...he gave me, meds for vomitting, stomach cramps, and powder for hydration purposes..guess what happened to me... its a flu which flew away...