Out of the Box

12th July (Sunday) - Sorry I haven't been up for so long. My internet connection was down and I recently only fixed it. So many things had happened in between my last post, and I don't know where to start. Let me start with my recent re-assignment. Apparently, I knew all along I couldn't stay in aesthetic, mainly because two people are considered a lot, even though my colleagues had tried to get me to stay by saying in case two doctors or three cases comes in, all three of us can use all three rooms and handle each cases. But no one is budging, and they finally deployed me to the second floor clinic, handling kids and pregnant mommies. After a week of being there, they moved me to the ground floor clinic. At first I was a little worried. because one week, how can I even catch up with the clinic flows? I feel like I'm a soccer ball, being kicked around, but til now I'm at the ground floor clinic, and I love it, more than the second floor.
Kids and pregnant mommies are not really my thing. I used to love it, I even wanted to be a midwife once, cause of all the dramas, and I love seeing births, new life coming into the world, and the funny fathers-to-be crying tears of joy and waving their Ipads and smart phones to take photos of their wee ones. Unfortunately, many hospitals that I apply to refused to give me Labour Rooms, saying that I need to be a qualified midwife first. But at some hospitals you can be a normal staff nurse at the Labour Room for a minimum of two years, but then you are expected to take your midwifery course because Labour Room needs midwives, not nurses. Being a normal staff nurse is the equivalent of a clerk and they don't want that.
One thing that I truly loved when I was working in my previous hospital was dressings. I don't know why, but I used to be squeamish when I see blood, but after being exposed to seeing tons of bloody stuff (plus doing tons of research for writing) , I actually loved it. When I moved to my new work environment, I loved doing dressings, but I can't touch them, only doctors are allowed to do the dressings. I assist, and in a way, it's frustrating. I want to hands on, not stay on the sidelines. Well, ground floor clinic is where I can do things my way and at my own pace. And the surgeons here are okay, and so are the patients, because they often come back for daily dressing. And so you'll often see them again and again til their wound are fully healed. Best part of all. the dressings are done by us. See why I like the place.
It has already been nearly two week I'm there and I still have a lot of things to catch up on. I'll update whenever I can in between writing and work. That's all for now. ^^