To nurse is never easy. You sometimes hold your tears whenever you see a patient dying and cant do anything but stare. To nurse is to be selfless. You always will need to consider your patients first regardless of whether u feel like voiding or not. Patience is badly required in this profession. Without it, dont bother to waste ur 4 years of learning the course. All will be futile. To nurse is like being a super hero who, even if blown up, in pain, tired, and exhausted to death, still fights for the welfare of others. Countless referrals, super duper sterile procedures, mind twisting drug conferences, never ending care plans, and craziest ever bisaya translation of lesson plans just to have something to impart to patients are to the maximum extreme level of stressful condition on the part of nurses. But even to the very least, personal and accessible way of comfort through crying, still is not advisable for them to do. But each of these sacrifices is worth to be experienced if combined with a statement of sincere gratitude from the patient. yet to be unthanked means pain. Such in a dramatic stage, such an artist, a super hero, a science of no less than a NURSE. Indeed an art and science.
But let us face the fact that nowadays, to be nursed is like being attacked by a monster. Scary. Reason why statement of gratitude is no longer evident to many of its patients. Its beauty is slowly fading. But let us examine beginning from the essence of the beauty of nursing down to the common feedback against today’s nurses.
Where does the beauty of nursing come from? The beauty of the nursing profession comes from those nurses who, even if pressured tired and exhausted, never fail to maintain every principle learned, values required, and attitude acquired. Always with grace under pressure.
But to examine if this beauty remains in every sector of our health care facilities would mean madness and total disappointment. As if nursing is no longer an infliction of care and smiles, but an infliction of chronic pain and impression of unwanted rendering of care!! I mourn for this degrading changes. I sympathize for those nurses who, until now, are very maintained of what, who and how a professional nurse should be. Equipment of intelligence is not the sole issue here. Attitude places higher.
As a student nurse, to see registered nurses who arent dedicated to their profession and who work without the heart of a simple human being is really "monsterous". And because of this, i sometimes tend to hate the profession i am aiming to have.
The world is too occupied with hatred, death, pain and sorrow. It cant afford to lose agents like professional nurses who should share heartily the fulfillment of care, love, joy,happiness and life. Crowded as the world can be, the nurses are there to share high hopes to hopeless, care to those who feel betrayed, and life for those who feel like dying. Heroic, isnt it? Beautiful to hear, yet is slowly killed with the drastic changes of today’s nurses. When and how the nursing profession could be revived to bring back its beauty and elegance will remain a mystery to all of us… it will remain as unanswered queries until a great man of braveness and confidence will start to cause changes for the betterment of this profession.
Three years from now, I may be part of the list of registered nurses in the country(aiming to top the board exams even if palpak ngaun sa academics ko…babawi lang ako dun) -licensed, professional, and a SILLIMANIAN. Never will i try to waste and put upside down the principles, values, concepts and attitudes instilled and forcefully changed in me by my institution. i wont waste the best changes in me caused by the years of hardship, determination, and inspiration in the College of Nursing, Silliman University through modeling the monster nurses of today. i maybe alone in this battle to revive or bring back the beauty of nursing, but i know deep in my heart that never will a massive rally begin without the voice of the initiator who once was alone in his quest.
The very moment i retire from this profession i am aiming, at least i could say that i did something heroic and in fulfillment of Dr. Sinda’s vision for us.
The failure of oneself to signify these important and alarming situation in the nursing profession is really a slap our faces as nurses (student and registered) for the basic skill that we all should possess is to be sensitive to things that are turning out bad and be able to do something about it. If this simple skill is not in us, it is undoubtedly reasonable for us to quit and give respect to what a nurse should be for we are just adding to the overflowing wastes of the society.
As i end this simple reflection and acknowledgment of facts within this course, I salute those who, in their minds, will start to be part of the quest towards better nursing, towards the revival of beauty- the beauty of caring, of nursing as an art and science.
m sorry for the added drama in this blog. this is the very least way for me to comfort myself.y. cant forever pretend that m happy. m trying but to no significance after all.