As a student nurse for about a year, I've handled many cases, and I've met many faces and races. I never thought caring and loving for someone would be so hard. At the hospital, people may think it is so easy enough for the medical staff to handle things. Yes, it may be easy as it seems, but I guess it's not if you don't really love what you are doing. I can see how the nurses and doctors get tired and be exhausted but still, they work so hard for it is their responsibility. And we, as a student nurse, we would stay beside our patient until our shift ends and that's for 8 long hours. We talked to our patients and asked them how they feel. Oftentimes, they tell us they are okay but you can see on they're faces that they are not. Sometimes we ignore how they feel but often we care a lot. Little by little I start loving how it is like to be a Nurse.
I was once assigned to be the student head nurse for our group. I would go "rounds"- a term use in the hospital when the nurses check their patient's room. There was a case of a 5 year old child who was admitted in the hospital for stomach pain and vomiting
g. The hospital was not as good as a private one because it lacks facilities and equipments for it is only a public hospital. Then, I did my rounds. as I checked the child's room who happened to be in a Ward room, She was found dead. I still remember how my heart crushed into thousand pieces when I saw her and as I hold her cold body. I know for a fact that both of her parents can't give their child's need, you can see it accordingly, the child was wearing a rugged shirt and she was not as healthy as other children were. Her eyes were wide open, while her body lies frozen. I felt sympathy as I terminated the IV fluid from her body. She was so cold. My tear almost rush down my face when I saw her brother maybe a year younger than her. I saw him embracing her sister so tightly, crying, saying his sister's name repeatedly, " Ate, Ate,Ate" ( A term used in Filipino language to call the elder sister.), I can't do nothing but stare! Damn! Her parents can't say a word, more and more tears rush down their faces, as I saw her parent's heart die little by little staring at their daughter's cold body. I pause, and I felt cold for a while. I said to myself, "If I could only give half of my life to make her live again, I would, but I really can't do anything. I am not scared of dying, but rather losing my love ones. But as I reflect, Life and Death are normal, unless you are immortal.
g. The hospital was not as good as a private one because it lacks facilities and equipments for it is only a public hospital. Then, I did my rounds. as I checked the child's room who happened to be in a Ward room, She was found dead. I still remember how my heart crushed into thousand pieces when I saw her and as I hold her cold body. I know for a fact that both of her parents can't give their child's need, you can see it accordingly, the child was wearing a rugged shirt and she was not as healthy as other children were. Her eyes were wide open, while her body lies frozen. I felt sympathy as I terminated the IV fluid from her body. She was so cold. My tear almost rush down my face when I saw her brother maybe a year younger than her. I saw him embracing her sister so tightly, crying, saying his sister's name repeatedly, " Ate, Ate,Ate" ( A term used in Filipino language to call the elder sister.), I can't do nothing but stare! Damn! Her parents can't say a word, more and more tears rush down their faces, as I saw her parent's heart die little by little staring at their daughter's cold body. I pause, and I felt cold for a while. I said to myself, "If I could only give half of my life to make her live again, I would, but I really can't do anything. I am not scared of dying, but rather losing my love ones. But as I reflect, Life and Death are normal, unless you are immortal.
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