30th August (Saturday) - One more day to National Day and now I come in early on Saturdays so that I'll be able to go back early. For starters, I'm back at the usual ward and guess who's calling super early in the morning? You guessed it, the same old lady and her companion. Ahhhh. Dear God, please let the lady get well soon so that she can be independent and spare us all. God, now she has a maid to care for her, unfortunately, her maid doesn't have a single clue on how to take care of her and she kept demanding me to teach her maid. Truly, I sincerely wanted to help, unfortunately, it was a bad timing since I have to handle the other bed lady. She's able to do things on her own, the only downside she's slow, so I usually have to stay near her in case she falls and she keeps saying that she wants to change room and since now the maid has come in, she's furious because the maid caused her whole commode chair to get wet. I told her gently that every room only has one bathroom and for patients in double bedded or four bedded, they have to share with their roomies. The lady just shake her head and literally beg me to change her to another room, and I told her that I'm very sorry, there are no double bedded rooms at the moment and I do not have the authority to change her room if there is one available. Only the Sister and the prof has the authority to do so. After giving her her shower and just as I was about to make her milk, I got called to go to another ward due to shortage of staff.
Sigh, so after apologizing to the lady and telling her that I am unable to attend to her, i handed over to one of the senior staff and run up to help out. Up there is even more panicky and everyone is rushing around and my poor friend have to take care of the whole ward due to all the staff being super busy with their own tasks, assignments, medicines, doctor rounds, sending patients to the OT and reports. Apparently, they didn't have much staff til nearly everyone had to double shift. Since being in this ward threw me entirely, I have to rush to get the patients' diagnosis just to get an idea and then run attending the patients.
Since there was a senior staff on duty, she took me to observe her dressings. PICC and a scalp dressing. The scalp dressing is the one that kind of cause me to go, !!!!! Cause it's on a boy. Yes, a little boy who ended up having a scalp injury and underwent a skin graft to fix back his scalp. The nurse told me that if I have been here on the first day, it would've been much worse. Now that's left is a clean and dry wound with some granulating parts so it isn't too bad. I really hope if i ever encounter cases like this, I'll be strong.
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