Personal Thoughts
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Education, MISCELLANEOUS, Personal Stories
The Legacy of Excellence: A Graduate’s Tribute
For those individuals in the nursing world, the name of my school is well known. It is one of the prestigious nursing schools in the Philippines and known for being one of the top performing schools in the Nurse Licensure Examination every year. Thus being able to graduate from such institution, one can never fail [...]
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How To Survive The Night Shift
NIGHT SHIFT. This isn’t uncommon for us nurses and other health care professionals.Whether we like it or not, there will come a time when we will have to work on a night shift. We know that this shift is hard and may take emotional and physical toll on the workers. As someone who had been [...]
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COMMENTARIES, Health, Humor, Medical Information, MISCELLANEOUS, Personal Stories
Chocolate High: Confessions of A Chocoholic
Toblerone. Kitkat Butterfingers. Hershey’s Kisses. Lindt milk chocolate. Ferrero Rocher. YUM! Tulo laway na naman. Uyyy… aminin mo, natatakam ka din diba? I just can’t help it. My parents would always tell me I always had a sweet tooth mula pa noong maliit ako. Mawala na ang lahat sa diet ko wag lang yung sweets [...]
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EMPLOYMENT, Humor, Nursing in a Different Land, Personal Stories
10 Things I Like About Being A Night Shift Nurse
NIGHT SHIFT. Whoever hears this would eventually think, “Here comes another night without sleep“. Well, indeed. This is quite true. It is not really advisable to sleep while on duty. And that’s the main glitch working on night shifts, some people just can’t avoid being sleepy. And no one can blame them, right? Night time [...]
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Nursing in a Different Land, Personal Stories, TIPS, Working Conditions
Boredom in K.S.A. – Lalaban Kami
FIRST TIMER. NEWBIE. BAGONG SALTA. JADID (arabic). Mga karaniwang tawag sa mga baguhang manggagawa dito sa K.S.A. lalo na sa mga unang beses pa lang magtrabaho sa abroad. Kumbaga, wala pang experience masyado. First time ko ding mag-abroad. 22 years old lang ako nang dumating dito. Bata pa nga daw ako para mag-abroad agad. Marami [...]
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse, Health, Personal Stories, STORIES
Confessions of a Nurse and an Insominac
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Every tick of the clock means another second spent WIDE AWAKE. Without me noticing, the SUN’S UP! Here I am, UNABLE TO SLEEP. Another night, another day. THANKS TO INSOMNIA. But what is INSOMNIA? It is the difficulty of initiating and/or maintaining sleep, or nonrestorative sleep, associated with impairments [...]
