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jiahui.lei

jiahui.lei

China

July 17, 2008

   

 Firstly, I really feel it a pity to practice here. Because of the poor techniques and limited information. It is likely to be insulated from the normal world. What’s worse, I can’t come back home regularly which makes me very unhappy. People who are familiar with me know that I’m a homesick person. So it’s a hard decision. And I will be trained for 1 year (without any payment).

  Registered nurses are our teachers. They are kind. But I couldn’t feel their passion when they were working. In my opinion, they must be fed up with this complicated and boring job. Thinking, every week you do the same job at the same time. Meanwhile, you get low salary but in high risk. What’s worse, you may be strongly criticized by doctors, patients or any other related persons. Nurses are in low status.  Sometimes I got the same feeling” no hopes, no encouragement and lack the spirit of enterprise” so I can understand them to some degree.

  I leant how to mix medicine and calculate the medical dose as it is vital in pediatrics. We are not allowed to inject or do any other things alone. Because we are“freshman”here. Although we learnt much in college, we lack clinical experiences and techniques. And hospital differs from campus. I didn’t do any nursing, because children were sent by their parents. They take care of them instead of us. We just gave some advice. Actually we didn’t have time to care them.   There’re totally 7-8 nurses in pediatric dept. but they need to care more than 40 patients, and not all the nurses are on the same shift which means only 2 or 3 nurses should care that large number patients. It’s extremely tired. Work as machine.

  On night shift, my teacher and I stayed in neonate caring room. It is evident that our tasks are feeding them and eliminating some fecal or contaminated things. I was afraid of crying, so we used formula with sugar to feed them. Some severe infants, we also need to monitor their temperature, heart rate and O2 saturation. The night shift is from 5:30 pm. To 8:00 am. I dislike night shift. But after 2 days night and 2 days day shifts, I could have 3 days off. However, my biological clock can’t adapt to the opposite time. I can’t get enough time to sleep. Because my new roommates always made noise when they were free. So no matter how hard I made effort to sleep, it was in vain. And I don’t know whether I could tolerate my new roommates. Although I know it’s not their fault, nor do I. and I don't like the dormitory.

   

  Something must be stuck with everyday. And I don’t have the reason to give up. I may be upset for a while, when encounter some unhappy things. But nothing would bring me down. I need to learn more to equip myself.      

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