It all started innocently enough. Was in de train, otw home just now. In came 3 nurses. De next stop was Tiong Bahru, so defly they were fr Outram Park, and hence, from SGH. So I decided to listen in on them. I Nursing student mah, so in a way, it's justified, right? Quite interesting, what they were discussing. Patients, fellow nurses and what not. In short, ward politics lah. Haha!
Got quite bored, so I smsed an ex sec sch mate, who is now doing Adv Dip in nursing, abt my listening in. From there, we started talking abt when's my attachment, when she finishing, she currently on attachment and all that. When she said she'll be finishing her AD soon, I rememberd she being with NUH. So I asked her abt de Ward 5G thing. Cos I already went there, and there was no such ward listed. It turned out, as she told me, that it's actuali Ward 57. Just that it's divided into med neuro and med onco. So de med onco is called 5G. So that's how it goes. Which means it's still onco for me for my first attachment lah.. Just when I thought that there was an error or smthg. And that I'm going to 58, which is an air-conditioned ward. Oh well..
Speaking of attachment, on Wed, de class had an 'argument' of sorts with a tutorial lecturer, abt being paid while on attachment. His point of view - de hospitals are already being generous to let us, Nursing students, who are not on their payroll, to go there and learn and get on-de-job experience on their patients. We should be de ones to pay de hospitals instead, he reasoned.
Our point of view - we're 'working' during our vacation leave, and so should get paid for that. Which I still believe lah. But it's hard not to see de lecturer's point of view, and to somehow agree. Cos he does make sense here. But then again, he's a lecturer already, and NOT a student. So, ...
And still on de topic of attachment, and to end this post, I went to see de Nursing course synopsis. And omg lah.. Yr 2 and yr 3 attachment so much! Take a look. It's 'Nursing Practice':
Got quite bored, so I smsed an ex sec sch mate, who is now doing Adv Dip in nursing, abt my listening in. From there, we started talking abt when's my attachment, when she finishing, she currently on attachment and all that. When she said she'll be finishing her AD soon, I rememberd she being with NUH. So I asked her abt de Ward 5G thing. Cos I already went there, and there was no such ward listed. It turned out, as she told me, that it's actuali Ward 57. Just that it's divided into med neuro and med onco. So de med onco is called 5G. So that's how it goes. Which means it's still onco for me for my first attachment lah.. Just when I thought that there was an error or smthg. And that I'm going to 58, which is an air-conditioned ward. Oh well..
Speaking of attachment, on Wed, de class had an 'argument' of sorts with a tutorial lecturer, abt being paid while on attachment. His point of view - de hospitals are already being generous to let us, Nursing students, who are not on their payroll, to go there and learn and get on-de-job experience on their patients. We should be de ones to pay de hospitals instead, he reasoned.
Our point of view - we're 'working' during our vacation leave, and so should get paid for that. Which I still believe lah. But it's hard not to see de lecturer's point of view, and to somehow agree. Cos he does make sense here. But then again, he's a lecturer already, and NOT a student. So, ...
And still on de topic of attachment, and to end this post, I went to see de Nursing course synopsis. And omg lah.. Yr 2 and yr 3 attachment so much! Take a look. It's 'Nursing Practice':
