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Work has been sucha bitch lately. Let me explain.

    1. Colleagues and Bosses :

       There has been a lot of changes in this ward lately. From groups of friends, to mere strangers in an instant. And then, there’s the backstabbers. There will always be the backstabbers in every company. Anyways, there has been A LOT of changes recently and one of the major changes is the reshuffling of our Nursing Managers. First, we have this pinoy N.O. to replace the malay one. A good change I must say, coz the malay N.O,(boss) has been stagnant in the same ward for many years and her productivity has, well, plunged. The new boss, a very hands on boss and understanding as well. She helps around in the ward and a very motivating boss. BUT! Her scheduling skills, SUCKS big time! -.-”’ There will be days where my shifts are sandwich between night shifts, sleeping day, afternoon shift and rest day. Other than that, I have no complains against her so far yet. Hopefully, she’ll stay as how she is now.The fact that she’s a pinoy, and she’s our boss, my other pinoy colleagues suddenly, thinks that they have the higher hand. Suddenly, the ward is ruled by the pinoy SNs, basically, the seniors. Well, I thank god again that my pinoy boss is not one sided. She’s very neutral about us and I feel that that’s he plus point. :)

      My new Malay boss. She’s newly promoted and she was from a paying class ward. My ward is a subsidized ward by the way. Anyways, The fact that she’s from a paying class ward, makes it harder for her to understand our work flow, it seems. The amount of work that we do everyday is totally different from a paying class wards. She’s yet to adapt to this high traffic ward, it seems. And there is this strange aura that I can feel from her. This strange bad aura. I choose to stay away. I will acknowledge her when I see her and still give my respects to her as my boss but not more than that, for now. I better steer away from negativity. :)

      There are some colleagues whom I really hate to work with. They only think about themselves and their charts! No sense of teamwork. No compassion for the patients. At the end of the day, all she wanted was to finish her work, pass over if not finished and leave the ward on the dot! DAMN GIRL! You seemed not to know your patients at all, BITCH! Goodness…! She is protected by the senior pinoys in the ward which is so obviously one-sided! FUCKERS!

    2. Patients: Confuse patients are totally a norm in the ward. I only detest patients with low pain threshold..! Damn! Especially if it’s a guy! Be a man! Suck it up! Pain killers have been provided, care provided, advises for pain management provided, what else do you want? On night shifts, we have 20 patients in our hands and pressing the call bell to have us by your side is not helping at all. Be a man and suck it up! Grrrr…!!

    3. Relatives: GOD DAMN IT! Whats with relatives nowadays? The demands from relatives, especially from chinese families, are too much! Though you are educated in some form, we nurses are educated too! Don’t tell us what to do! Don’t tell us what to not say! We are not your maids! We’re here to help your sick family member and there is so much that we can do! Why demand when u know that u are in a SUBSIDIZED ward??!!! Expect the slow speed! Expect the noise! We nurses, are busy as well. Don’t take us for granted! Complaining to the smallest problem there is. Sometimes, it’s not even our problem!

      An example; a patient absconded and the daughter is lodging a complain to us saying that we are not taking well care of her dad therefore her dad absconded! First of all, her dad did not want to be admitted in the ward. He wanted to go home when the A&E doctor said that he needs to be admitted. But his daughter refuses to let him home and insist for her dad to stay in the hospital. Her dad was wheeled up to the ward at about 6 pm. Agitated and anxious, her dad kept walking up and down in the cubicle saying that he wants to be discharged. The daughter still insist on the admission. Daughter went home shortly after. At about 7-ish, the dad was  no longer to be found in the ward and he never came back. He absconded. Now, the next day, the daughter called up the ward and demand an explanation from the nurses. How are we suppose to explain to her that patients have their own rights in the hospital? This is not a prison! And we can’t detained someone especially since he is in the mind! It’s his right! Well, she wasn’t happy that we didn’t manage to prevent her dad from running away and she lodge a complain to the higher authorities! DAMN! What is this? Your dad is our prisoner is it? So, apart from being a nurse, a maid, a cleaner, a daughter/son to ur relatives, we’re also a security guard? Oh my god! Tell me how? Haiz.

    4. The low wage.
    5. Overworked.
    6. Not enough off days.

There is so many that I wanna bitch about but I’ve decided to stop here since my back is aching so bad right now. I can’t sit too long. I can’t stand too long. Lying down, i have to find the right position. Sometimes the pain is so bad that all I wanna do is just to cry, which I eventually will. Thus is my health now. I need to resign! I want to! But at the same time, I need this job. The irony.