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2nd batch

kagaya ng naunang mga batch, ang orientation sa SLH at tunay na inaabangan. Hindi dahil sa mga experiences na kanilang makukuha kundi dhil sa 2 CI na makakasama nila ng isang linggo.

Ang araw ay nagsimulang maganda, first batch poh kme at napaaga ang aming pag-uwi sa dorm.
nakapagpahinga kme ng maayos, at nakakain ng fud na luto ni danggit.

kinagabihan, matapos nmin kumain at mabusog, kami ay naupo na upang mapakinggan ang hnandang report ng 2 studnt nurse. ang PTB.

bilang paghahanda sa kanilang duty sa TB ward, xla ay nabgyan ng advance info.

dumating ang araw sa PTB ward.. kmi ay di gaanong nahirapan. mababait ang aming mga pasyente at di kme natoxic. subalit ng matatapos na ang aming duty, kami ay pinakitaan ng balde baldeng hemoptysis. hay buhay!

ngunit subalit datapwat sa aming pag uwi, kme ay nagpasalamat at nakaraos kme ng isang araw muli.

Affiliation at SLH 2008

June 30, 2008 - Today is the first day of the last week of affiliation for the first batch of Nursing affiliates... Mixed emotions are now going around among the affiliates/ Some are excited, some are sad (i think), some still dont know if they are excited or not.
The culminating program wll be held on Thursday, July 3.. at the Dorm.. after dinner. PReparation is now underway with the mental group in-charge of the activity. There will be parlor games, sharing of experiences and the search for Miss Gay Affiliation 2008 and Miss Affiliation 2008. The students and the CIs are very excited/ Hopefully, the occasion will cement the strong bond formed by Block A and Block B.

I really just hope that this affiliation will be a big learning experience for the students.

affiliation 2008

June 9, 2008 (9AM)... The Northeastern College - Nursing Department is now on its third Affiliation in the three specialized Tertiary Hospitals in Manila namely San LAzaro Hospital, National Center for Mental Health and Philippine Orthopedic Center. The fourth year Nursing students were assigned in 2 Batches. Block A and B comprises the 1st Batch while Block C comprises the second batch.
The 85 students were accompanied by 5 CIs and the dean of the college. Ms Maricel Manuzon and Ms Noralyn Ualat are handling students at NCMH, Mr Arthur Garcia and the Dean are handling students at POC and the two Coordinators, Ms Luisa Valencia, Clinical Coordinator and yours truly, Academic Coordinator are handling students at San Lazaro Hospital. To make sure that students are well prepared for their exposure at the 3 hospitals, concepts on CommunicABLE dISEASE nursing were incorporated in their NCM 102 while 4 units of their NCM 104 was offered last summer 20o8 and this includes Psychiatric Nursing and Orthopedic Nursing.

Students are housed at the Good Sheperd LAdies Dorm in Sampaloc. Rules and regulations are imposed to ensure order.

Though the experience is a lot different from QPH, the school's base hospital, still it was noted that the BSNstudents of NC competes with the other students from City schools in terms of skills//

And for that, Im proud...

The first week passed. At the end of the weekend, 40+ students were grounded due to varied violations.

But all in all, it still amazes me how people react to different situations.. how they improve as nurses and as people!!!

This is just the beginning.

...('_,')

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ABC's of Nursing

ABC's of Nursing

	is for assessment. Nurses are great at assessing everything, e.g. patients, nursing care, each other, the work environment, and physicians.
	is for body, which becomes someone else's when one is admitted to the hospital. Nurses take care of the body, along with the mind and soul.
	is for charting, which is never ending. Student nurses need to be warned that when they are graduate nurses, they will probably have to chart on 10 different pieces of paper for every day - unless their hospitals use the other "C" word - computers.
	is for death, which nurses must face and work with, but should never give in to.
	is for endless, which is what nursing care activities mostly seem to be.
	is for finances, which is what keeps the hospitals open and the nurses employed. Most nurses know about hospital finances, especially when it impacts on the personal finances.
	is for goals. These are usually identified for the patient, but can be personal if the need arises.
	is for healthy, which nurses want to be because they don't want to be admitted to a hospital and have to be a patient.
	is for infection, also known as cystitis, which some researches claim nurses have more of because they never have time to go to the bathroom.
	is for joy, which nurses experience when their patients (both favorite and unfavorite) recover enough to go home.
	is for knowledge, which nurses have a lot of. They know about nursing, doctoring, diets, teaching, giving helping, caring facilitation, consulting, and fixing. They use most of it, so they try to keep getting it.
	is for laboratory reports, which have a tendency to show up on the wrong charts for the wrong patients at the wrong time, which nurses have to look out for constantly.
	is for movement, which nurses oversee so that patients either do or don't do, helping patients understand what and how to do or not do.
	is for needles. Nurses are concerned today because needles not only stick the patients; they may also stick the nurse with something that can be life threatening.
	is for orientation, which tells the new nurse that he or she is either going to fit or not fit into the hospital's culture. It is not too late to change your mind.
	is for priorities, which nurses must be great at setting whether it's patient care, preparing the operating room for surgery, or generating a budget.
	is for questions, which nurses answer a million of a day from patients, families, other members of the healthcare team, nursing colleagues, or administration.
	is for risk taking. Nurses take risks daily to attain the optimum care they think their patients need.
	is for surgery. While nurses don't do the cutting, they do the preparing, planning, assisting and teaching, which contributes to the outcome.
	is for teaching, which is an original major function of nursing. Since today there is a shortage of nurses and an abundance of physicians, many physicians are identifying teaching as a medical function, which nurses should be aware of in order to not lose it.
	is for uniform, which used to always be white for nurses on the units and scrubs for nurses in specialty areas. But today, nurses may wear scrubs or street clothes on the units and nurses in specialty areas are wearing jump suit cover-ups, or space suits, which is why name tags are required.
	is for values, which nurses and administrators often seem to have differences in. This is okay as they can be worked out in the decision-making process.
	is for walking, which nurses must be sure the ambulatory patients can do before they are discharged. It also can be the miles that nurses walk each day just doing their job. (Some have guesstimated 20 miles a day on an average, busy unit.)
	is for x-rays, which nurses must be sure they don't get too much of, in order to ensure there are enough new little nurses to carry on the profession.
	is for you, the most important person in nursing. The heart of nursing is giving of yourself, but be sure not to give it all away and have to leave nursing.
	is for zoo, which is where nurses often say they work, but then, doesn't everybody?