my adult nursing lecturer shared something which inspired me;
All the good grades and everything doesn’t make you a good nurse unless you care.
it did a lot of comfort work in me because i screwed up my stats test, i got a D and it comprises 60% of the research module. and i really envied people who got better GPA scores than me, they can nice scores like 3 and above while i’m still struggling to even get to 2.8!
and my lecturer was sharing about her working experience in a hospice. this patient was going to die of lung cancer and request for my lecturer (who was a nursing manager then) to accompany her. though my lecturer had a pile of work to be done, she chose to stay with the patient and go through this final journey with the patient.
was closed to tears while she was sharing, but cannot cause will be paiseh… LOL
sometimes i was bothered by my grades, bothered whether can i perform this skill well enough. as much as nurses should be professional, we shouldn’t get ourselves too work-oriented that we forget to care for them. if it does, it defeats the purpose of why i choose nursing, haha!
i’ll study hard and load myself with more infos, practice hard for my skills in order to bring the care not only physically, but holistically to my patients (i know it’s gonna be super duper hard… God, please help me!!!)
i must remember today!
