The pros and cons of being a nurse.

REPOSTED THIS FROM SOMEONE I DON'T KNOW BUT SHARE THE SAME SENTIMENTS WITH. VERY VERY INSPIRING.KUDOS TO MY FELLOW NURSE WHO WROTE THIS! =)

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TOP 8 THINGS I HATE ABOUT BEING A NURSE

Wondering why I chose eight? Each entry represents the standard eight hours nurses like me spend in one shift. Standard, eh? I frankly used the number because I need one; otherwise if I add up all the extended hours, this list could go on forever.

So I hate being a nurse because…

EIGHT – Nurses wear all white and we have to wear our hair up in a bun. You know how inconvenient plus hard to maintain that is? Okay, I came to duty on a heavy rain and mud starts making its way up my white uniform and there it is, a stain to last my entire shift. Also, putting my hair up prevents my it from being gorgeous! Really. That means no straightening, rebonding nor perming because I have to pull my hair back every single day. Oh God, I always envy those girls in high fashion corporate wears and all-set hairstyles. Maybe nurses should be allowed to look the same. Umm, just maybe.

SEVEN – We don’t get a professional fee (PF). We also have a license, and that makes us professionals too. But we don’t have a professional fee and we live on meager salary regardless of how many patients we’ve handled or cases we’ve assisted.

SIX – We do not have a holiday. Everyone in the industry can relate to this, I wouldn’t dare watch out for holidays because I just feel hopeless. The entire country rests lazily on their couches while I pin high my dear cap.

FIVE – We can’t leave unfinished work. I mean office girls do that, do they? They can leave unfinished works and get to it the next morning. But nurses have to stay for as long as needed because we just can’t leave things undone. Life is at stake and life can’t wait.

FOUR – We are the complaints center, if there is such a thing. When patients have a complaint on just about anything, they complain to the nurse. Not to the housekeeping staff, guard, doctor, or anyone else. Directly to the nurse; blame that for being too available.

THREE – Refer this and that. Even if I know what drug to give, and I have it right here in my very hands; I can’t give it, I always need to refer and ask for a prescription. I say nurses carry immense responsibility but very little authority, now how more frustrating can that get?

TWO – We are not treated as professionals. Leaking faucet? Faulty telly? We are always asked to do things we are not supposed to do. I mean, we’ve studied four dreaded years and earn ourselves a license for what? Fixing your telly signal? Hell no. Nurses are professionals like engineers, accountants, lawyers, and your beloved doctors whom you do not dare raise one eyebrow while you mindlessly shout at your nurse like your entire hospital bill goes straight to her salary.

ONE – Nursing is more than a sacrifice, it’s suicide. From nursing school to nurse’s station, enough sleep, enough food, nor enough rest is next to impossible. Here’s one idea that I’ve thought of just now: nurses religiously monitor patients’ urine output but at the end of the shift we realize we haven’t once gone to the bathroom: and that makes ours zero. So,if there’s one profession that wholly uses up one’s existence: be it mentally, physically, and emotionally, you got it: it’s Nursing.

Gosh, making a hate list is tiring; but then of course, I also have a list of the things I love in this field…

8. There are always doctors and nurses who look handsome in white and you get to trifle with them; and suddenly, the world is a better place ?
7. I love it when I get in regular clothes and everyone stares in shock; as if I’ve got no right to wear nothing but white.
6. More seriously, as a nurse, I get to see life in all its forms: from womb to tomb.
5. I get to work with all the goodness of my heart, no PF needed. I’m quite about sure you wouldn’t find nurses in hell.
4. I love being able to discharge patients in their improved condition. Nothing beats seeing them go home thanking you for their recovery. I guess that just transpires the very essence of this job.
3. My heart leaps when patients and/or relatives appreciate the work I have done; when they actually call me by name and boast that I am their nurse.
2. No other profession is as heroic as ours: giving up our own lives in order to save others.
1. Last of all, nurses may not be angels, but we’re the next best thing.

Oh you get it, I’m proud of this job: I just never admit it because it’s just too much fun to complain.

Kudos nurses!

Until we meet again, Harry

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 in 3D ;)

It was exactly 10 years ago when I first learned about the book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". I didn't know but I was really eager to read it. So what I did was I borrowed my cousin's book and started reading it. After reading it, the Harry-Potter magic began. I wished that Hagrid would fetch me at my house and send me to Hogwarts. I used to own a "Sorting Hat". I bought tumblers, pillows with Harry Potter and friends on in, he-he such a fanatic.

Then, months passed by, I finished reading the second and the third book which were entitled "Chamber of Secrets" then "The Prisoner of Azkaban". My imagination grew beyond what I expected.

It was 2001, my older cousins were talking about the first book and that JK Rowling sold its rights for a film. I remember how happy I was during that time. My family and Iwatched it in a theater. Magical it was, became a die-hard fan, wanting to see the cast. Times passed by, I will never forget how excited I got every year just to wait the Harry Potter film. Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville and the others became my friends in an instant. It was like I was growing up with them (since we share the same age).

When the last part of the movie was released, I was happy and sad at the same time. I know, the time has come to bid farewell to my magical years with Harry and friends. I watched the movie in 3D, cried at almost every scenes, mourned when a character dies, etc. I got really affected in every part of the film. I love the twists the best compared to the other films.

I will really never forget my 10 enchanted years with them. I hope JK Rowling will come up with another story about Albus Severus Potter, Harry's son. My dream to meet anyone in the cast is still a dream I'll try to fulfill as years pass by. Long live, Harry!!! :)

Before.......

After...

It definitely is an end of a wonderful era....

Free days... Time to meet my buddies!

I can describe myself as a very active young lady. There was never a time that I wasted my free days. Well except for some weather constraints :p After my tiring morning duties and sleepless nights at work, I can still manage to go out and mingle with my college best friends. Friends who know me inside and out. For me, going out with them relieves my stress. I really love them for bearing with my schedule. Thank God I have them. :) (my family was busy so they cannot go out with me, so thank God my friends were available, well, some of them)

With my girlfriends... Mariese isn't present in the pictures below.

These are my pretty girlfriends. :)

We always try to find time to have some chitchats and eat and drink!

I miss my bestfriend. He is currently unreachable because he is now taking up Medicine.

Being friends with them is one of the best fate I had. It is like being with the right persons who took a big part in my college life. I admit, I am still in the period of adjusting between work and school. Been with them for 4 years, imagine! Our university is not that big so there, I met everyone of them. This friendship will last until the world ends. :)

My first love...

I have never forgotten my dream of becoming a surgeon. Maybe one day, after all these, I will have enough of everything.

I sometimes think that being a nurse is not for me. First of all, I was not raised to do errands for other people, someone did it for me. Secondly, I am not used to following orders from someone I barely know. Haay, how complicated this life could be? I am always tired. But you guys know what ease/lessen these pain I feel? Smiles of my patients, ill patients I say. They are the one who inspire me everyday of my life. Their dreams of becoming well. Their positiveness make me feel contented.

I think I just need to hold on to that. I need to stop whining and complaining, instead, I should thank God for putting me here, not as a Surgeon, but as a dedicated nurse. Who knows? Maybe years from now, I will decide to fulfill my dream of becoming a Surgeon. SOMEDAY. <3

STRESS

BOW.

MY COUNTDOWN TO UNCERTAINTY

i have more than a thousand billion steps away from my star. a hundred billion reasons to push through or not. a billion experiences to welcome.

buhay nga naman.

ten years before i reach my star...five years before ano...five months before graduation from BSN (finally!!!)...

THINGS KEEP ON SPILLING...

I must admit, i am really depressed about what has been happening lately with my ugh, overrated life. I have been wanting these so-called things to take place so that I could say that "hey, this is what i've been dreaming all my life---look, it's happening, im so happy!" but then, in what i am seeing it, it's not. I had a talk with those people and I must say, I didn't like it. I hate the idea that I am being deprived of all those things I wanted to accomplish before I could reach Maslow's Self-Actualization. I may be too early to say these things but I know myself better than others. I know what I earnestly want and how to achieve those. Miracles are my last resort.