2nd September (Tuesday) - Hello, and welcome as we enter the month of September. You can consider it as a month has passed for me, although officially the date will be on 4th September since I entered on 4th August. Ah, well, what difference does a few days make?
So we entered the ward on our usual time, and we started sponging on our good ol' long term patient. He's in a super good mood today. But poor guy, he couldn't get enough sleep. Lord knows what happened last night, but he's very happy to see us. As usual, we gave him all our best care, and I finally got a chance to do mouth care. Yay. So I armed myself with my wooden spatula and cotton gauze, fixed it with hyperflix, and got to work with my thymol mouth wash. He's was kind to let me do it for him and I feel sorry for him to suffer and cough cause thymol mouth wash has a very strong, bitter taste that stings your tongue. I know cause I have one as well.. Not pleasant, and I kept apologizing to him as he coughed. But he just shook his head and let me performed it to the best I can. It was a success and he looked so much better. All freshen up.
After I'm done, I was called to go to the pharmacy to replace back on that day since the supervisor couldn't make it. So I went, but to tell you the truth, it's not much. I just learned about the basics of the pharmacy, the functions of the pharmacy, when do they top up the medicine, how do they pack the medicines, how do they tidy up... Basic stuff. I was given assignments on drug calculations and indications of ALL medicines in the medicine cart. Yep, I'm still doing it even as I type this. Not an easy task since I have to look at my Medical Bible every few minutes or so. Like I said, there's nothing much to talk about.
After I was let off early from the pharmacy due to the supervisor being busy, I returned back to do my assignment while being a runner. Well, not really since my assignment needed to be complete. So I got out the medication file list, three stacks of Medical Bible and got to work til the end of my working hours. There were seven new staff coming in for the ward and sadly to say, no Chinese nurse. I'm guess I'm still holding the record for now. Shame. I was hoping to invent myself a new nickname. Ha-ha.
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