4th Day

This is my fourth day in DLS as a trainee. It's not fun-filled dahil walang makukulit sa group. Lecture days until May 5. We already had exams yesterday on dosage calculations and a 100-item enumeration/fill-in-the-blanks exam on nursing procedures/skills (funda kung funda talaga!).

Just to review, here are some questions from the super enumeration-filled exam. I've provided the surest answers I got:

> complications of giving otic meds in its extreme condition=vertigo, dizziness ...

> things you should avoid in choosing intramuscular injection site=mole, birthmark, scar tissue,

> subcutaneous injection sites=lateral upper arms and thighs, fat pads on abdomen, upper hips

> reasons why you should rotate injection sites in giving insulin

> stock dose of potassium chloride = 40mL/20mL

> the best injection site for emaciated and elderly patients

> the best injection site for 7 months old and above = ventrogluteal

> the best position when instilling nasal meds

> indications for nasogastric tube insertion

> indications for indwelling catheter

> examples of meds for treating glaucoma = beta blockers and NSAIDS

> reasons for doing tracheostomy care

> reasons for doing suctioning

I find this one question so mind-boggling: give 6 reasons why you have to fill the urinary catheter balloon with 10mL of PNSS... I mean, why does it have to be 6 reasons? I can only give 2 sensible answers, 4 are just wild guess. In the book, there are only 2 reasons. Maybe I should ask Mr. JP about it. If only we're allowed to save the presentation in our personal USB's.

Good day!

After long weeks of waiting, here at last is the text message from Delos Santos-STI Medical Center:

Now I'm ready for it! I'll say good bye to Plants vs. Zombies once duty starts (sacrifice). I won't be late or absent until I'm a regular employee (hehe! joke!). I will be good (even if others are not).

I need to thank God for this long-awaited opportunity. At long last, after 2 years of being a jobless nurse, here it is. I know that He directed me to be a part of this hospital because He knows that it is the best one for me (after so many failures in SLMC --2nd priority in Global, and failed in the 2nd exam in QC).