I have been out of this personal blog for months. New blogs again... Going back to my system. It has been months of deep coma. I was too busy updating my status and forgot that there is better space in this blog than sinking my thoughts in less than 460 bytes in my facebook account or less than 160 bytes in my twitter account. I have learned a lot lately and since the purpose of this blog is to educate. This is what I intend to do. Again, welcome to my personal blog! Learn from my experiences about God, my family, travel, my nursing career or simply about life :)
"Knowledge and wisdom are two different terms. Knowledge to know and wisdom to understand." -maritessmanalangquintorn-
"Knowledge and wisdom are two different terms. Knowledge to know and wisdom to understand." -maritessmanalangquintorn- This blog is dedicated to nurses. May we all continue to shine and serve as a guiding light.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Great beginnings comes from God...
Today marks the end of sacrifices. Nursing students from all over the Philippines will be gathered tomorrow in their designated testing centers to mark the end of all the sacrifices they had in their nursing education and harvest the fruits of their hard work. Every student nurse dreams to be a licensed nurse... This will mark the beginning of their nursing career and continue their mission to be bearers of faith, hope and confidence.
As I always say, nursing is not an easy job. You may be a nurse in the academe, in the hospital or in the community, yet we all share a certain responsibility in the environment we live in. I am amazed by the number of individuals, that for so many years that I have been in this profession, a lot of people would like to be a nurse. We may all have our own reasons why we chose this field but I fervently hope and pray that we nurses should continue our mission and vision... Care for the well and sick, be a role model, inspire and motivate other people and most of all, serve as a living testimony of hope to everyone who is in need.
Tomorrow and the next day after tomorrow is the beginning of a career. May GOD give everyone wisdom and strength to conquer their examination and may HE grant our prayers that nurses who will take their oaths after their examination will continue to uplift the standards of the nursing profession.
It is in the hands of NURSES, that no matter how poor our country may be, NURSES like us will continue to be professional, hard working and globally competitive. We may be serving our country or some may be serving other nationalities, but one thing is for sure... A FILIPINO NURSE will conquer the nursing world and will continue to share light to his/her clients, acknowledging God for the wisdom and skills in accomplishing our tasks and stay on the ground while harvesting success in our chosen fields.
Truly, great beginnings comes from God... Wisdom comes from God... HE is true to HIS promises... Trust in HIS ways... God bless you us all NURSES and may we all be a shining light in the Nursing profession!
xoxo,
M'Q. :D
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
A Student's Plea
"Ma'am please ipasa nyo na po ako... Inaatake na po ang lola nung nalaman nya na di ako aakyat sa entablado. Hindi ko na po alam ang gagawin ko... Hindi na po ako mag-aaral ulit dahil bumagsak ako." (Ma'am please let me pass the subject. My lola is having a cardiac arrest when she found out that I cannot go to the stage and graduate. I do not know what to do anymore. I will not study anymore because I failed.)
-- This is only one of the usual text message I receive every end of the semester. Heartbreaking... I feel like I want to cry...Sympathize...
Accept the fact that they are graduating students and somehow deserve to end their sufferings from school.
But then I realize, If I pass this student, I should pass everybody else... even though they lack knowledge,skills and attitude... even though they don't even know how to simply spell the word "Received" in the chart(when they usually spell it as "recieved")... and even though they simply have just the heart but their neurons can't just ingest each and every concept that we teach. Truly heartbreaking. I pity their parents, who would break bones just to let them graduate. Borrow money from Mr. Visa and Mastercard, get a loan from all the banks and microfinancing companies, sell the car, the house, the farmland...
Realizing all these, the love of nursing, my profession trickles me. If I will pass all of these students who I think lacks the appropriate standard to become a nurse, what will happen to my profession. With the status of nursing profession nowadays and I would let this happen, I would further aggravate the poor health care system that we have.
I remember, when I talked to the nurse who took care of my mom before she died and asked her of the postmortem care she was about to do, she just said that her eyes was closed. Nothing else.. nothing more... And so I cried. Realized, I am a nurse. I could have done more. Spiritual care. Cleaned her. Positioned her well. Even when I asked them what they have done when she had an arrest, they just said that they have done everything that they can possibly do. Specifically what? Just CPR... no defibrillations... no intubations... no medications... just because nurses were the only ones left in the ER, no doctors. And the nurses left in the ER probably just know CPR nothing more...
The grading system is a good tool to evaluate a student objectively. Logically, 74 is not 75 right? So 74 is considered failed. Deliberate the grades? If we deliberate the grades because of effort or attitude, this defeats the purpose of the grading system. We might as well not give grades anymore and let the students just finish the course. Then this would be the start of the downfall of the nursing education.
It is very difficult to be an educator. It is not different with show business. We need to let our students laugh during lecture so that they would easily understand and sometimes let them cry to let them realize the importance of their education.
I joined the academe because I want to do more with this profession. I want to share my knowledge so that my students would be better than me... I want them to be successful just like me and be proud that they graduated nursing because they deserve it. Not because of a bribe and not because of a plea.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR FUTURE NURSES! and to those who did not make it this March... we will all see each other in the roster of nurses... Take time, take it easy. Hurrying things would not make you brilliant.
Just like a diamond, it takes careful steps to see it shine. God bless :)
-- This is only one of the usual text message I receive every end of the semester. Heartbreaking... I feel like I want to cry...Sympathize...
Accept the fact that they are graduating students and somehow deserve to end their sufferings from school.
But then I realize, If I pass this student, I should pass everybody else... even though they lack knowledge,skills and attitude... even though they don't even know how to simply spell the word "Received" in the chart(when they usually spell it as "recieved")... and even though they simply have just the heart but their neurons can't just ingest each and every concept that we teach. Truly heartbreaking. I pity their parents, who would break bones just to let them graduate. Borrow money from Mr. Visa and Mastercard, get a loan from all the banks and microfinancing companies, sell the car, the house, the farmland...
Realizing all these, the love of nursing, my profession trickles me. If I will pass all of these students who I think lacks the appropriate standard to become a nurse, what will happen to my profession. With the status of nursing profession nowadays and I would let this happen, I would further aggravate the poor health care system that we have.
I remember, when I talked to the nurse who took care of my mom before she died and asked her of the postmortem care she was about to do, she just said that her eyes was closed. Nothing else.. nothing more... And so I cried. Realized, I am a nurse. I could have done more. Spiritual care. Cleaned her. Positioned her well. Even when I asked them what they have done when she had an arrest, they just said that they have done everything that they can possibly do. Specifically what? Just CPR... no defibrillations... no intubations... no medications... just because nurses were the only ones left in the ER, no doctors. And the nurses left in the ER probably just know CPR nothing more...
The grading system is a good tool to evaluate a student objectively. Logically, 74 is not 75 right? So 74 is considered failed. Deliberate the grades? If we deliberate the grades because of effort or attitude, this defeats the purpose of the grading system. We might as well not give grades anymore and let the students just finish the course. Then this would be the start of the downfall of the nursing education.
It is very difficult to be an educator. It is not different with show business. We need to let our students laugh during lecture so that they would easily understand and sometimes let them cry to let them realize the importance of their education.
I joined the academe because I want to do more with this profession. I want to share my knowledge so that my students would be better than me... I want them to be successful just like me and be proud that they graduated nursing because they deserve it. Not because of a bribe and not because of a plea.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR FUTURE NURSES! and to those who did not make it this March... we will all see each other in the roster of nurses... Take time, take it easy. Hurrying things would not make you brilliant.
Just like a diamond, it takes careful steps to see it shine. God bless :)
Saturday, March 13, 2010
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