Yes, you saw Ms. Usha right at the title. You're not having any vision problems.
Having her to orientate us is quite intense.
Before I start with anything further, happy Nurses Day to ALL the nurses worldwide! Yes, it's Nurses Day today.
Now, let's go on.
I had to wake up 5am, and went under the ice cold shower to really wake myself up. My uniform today looks exceptionally good this morning because I ironed it on my own hoping for the best in my first day at the hospital.
We then went up the bus and it started its journey to Pantai Medical Centre.
When we've arrived, we walked all the way up the pathway to the old block's lobby and we sat there to wait for the tutors to appear. Instead, we saw Ms. Usha at first sight. She asked all the students in Ward D4 (which includes me) to gather in front of her and she told me that she'll be orientating us, I was shocked.
According to the seniors, we'll be expecting stern and strict treatment under her.
So she started off by bringing us to our ward, D4. 'D' signifies the block and '4' signifies the floor, so Ward D4 happens to be at Block D, 4th floor. When we're there, we placed our bags in the Staff Lounge and we were asked to wait in the Interview Lounge as the passing over of reports will happen there.
We went in there and waited for the Staff Nurses to come in. When everyone's there, the passing over of reports started. They were speaking so quickly with all the medical jargon and abbreviations that I couldn't understand even one patient's full condition. Within the conversation, I could only understand words like BP, O2, blood tests, vomiting blood, temperature and a few others. Whereas for the rest of it, it seems to me that they're speaking a foreign language although I know very clearly they're speaking English. I was also impressed by the way the listening Staff Nurse was taking down all the notes given by the other Staff Nurse, it seems like effortless to her.
After that, we went on with our orientation. We've been to many wards and departments, met many other staffs and learnt many new terms. Though orientation with Ms. Usha was boring and not interesting at all, but I was excited to know more about the hospital and I found the tour pretty knowledgeable. It was fine overall if it isn't with Ms. Usha's stern and strict treatment.
We were allowed to go back to the hostel by 2pm today, so we boarded the bus that brought us there once again about 2.15pm.
Nothing much happened today. In fact, nothing happened at all because we were all on orientation the whole day. We'll only start posting officially tomorrow. By then, I hope everything will go well and I'm pretty eager to start on any procedures!
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