Well, I hope Rhonda and other nurses can read this.
Some of you guys know I've been running to the hospital almost daily to visit my future MIL eh.
You know, I've never thought of nurses this way till you see the missies in action in the high dependency wards.
until I saw them change and clean up a patient with involutary diarrhea 5 times in two hours, until I saw them clean up vomit and bile time after time with nary a complaint, until I saw them respond so patiently to frustrated relatives trying to find out more (the docs are quite God like; you know they are around, but you just don't get to see them).
Until I saw them patiently teaching the home caregivers how to flush a stomach tube and clean up involuntary rectal explosions without causing discomfort to the patient. Until I saw them putting up with the smell and gore that made me gagged.
Whatever MOH is paying nurses nowadays, it's not enough.
Sure, doctors get more glamour and money, but to me it's the nurses that are right in the trenches, getting down and dirty.
fatumnette and I are thinking of arranging a gift basket to the ward nurses when everything is finally over.
i would like to thank the nurses at Gleneagles during Feb-Mar who took care of my dad while he was having his leg/hip ops and they were very nice to me and mom too.
one funny incident is that the patient next to my dad bed (2 in 1 room), tried to sneak away (he afraid of hospital), me saw, me alert nurses, all rush to grab him back..
nurses, firefighters, policemen and women. These are some fine people working to keep this society afloat. Its a pity that they are taken for granted.
the nurses were sweet to me when i was undergoing leg ops
altho i threw up many times after the surgery
cocktail of drugs, the nurse said
The people doing the dirty work are always under-appreciated.
Originally posted by hisoka:The people doing the dirty work are always under-appreciated.
Not to mention under-paid