I think the below post is going to make me look like a dumbster. But I think it is worth pondering on.
I got 2 warning letters.
1st one for another friend’s mistake which I’m not going to talk about. But it just means that I wasn’t alert enough to prevent that from happening. I was dumb. I admit.
2nd one. I got a warning letter because I do not know my patient’s pulse rate.
Okay, now, will you think that it is ridiculous?
But when I was standing there, looking at my boss signing up that ’saman’ form for me, I thought I deserved it. Even thou it is not a very acute case, not a very important significant case. It was the pulse rate of a post appendicectomy patient, who had his breakfast that morning.
He said, you didn’t examine your patient. I admit, I learned to ‘copy’ pulse rate from observation chart, I didn’t took it myself.
My big boss now requires us to do even more.
Know what is ‘pain as the fifth vital signs’?
So what is VITAL SIGNS?
If it is so vital, why don’t you do it yourself? Why let the student nurses or nurses to do it?
This I have to admit. It makes sense. So if you come to visit us in the ward, we will be taking the BPs, PR, RR and etc. Vital signs. It makes sense. Weird that nobody actually punish HOs for not doing that except them. If this 4 months is really training, then I think at least this will be one of the good habits taken up by a lot of us.
So, still something good out of bad situations right?
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July 27th, 2010 at 9:05 pm
what? u all have samans??? lol… cant wait to finish housemanship.. but that is gonna mean that i m old.. lol