Tuesday, November 13, 2007♥11/13/2007 11:53:00 AM
I've been a registered nurse for nearly 4 months. Time flies past without me knowing it.
Working in NUH OT for quite sometime and that has widen up my preception of people, all sorts of people around me.
I came to realize all these as time goes by:
1) Being new, there are eyes around you. Be it in the cctv, across a wall, from other people, eyes are focusing on you. You may not realize it but they're floating around you.
2) No matter how frustrated you are, how busy you are, how stressful you are, DO NOT raise your tone of voice. People may find your attitude crude and not humble without assessing the ongoing situation.
3) If it's your fault, people nag at you. If it's not your fault, people will still be nagging. You better be humble and accept the comments. Or else, people view you as self-defensive, not willing to learn. DO NOT EXPLAIN YOURSELF.
4) If you skip your tea time just to offer a helping hand, people may complaint that you break the inofficial rule. Although the "tea-time" is a PRIVILEDGE not an entitlement.
5) Seniors expect you to pay them respect. Well, we should respect them of course but some of them have forgotten about RESPECT is through EARNING. When the senior is not doing her/his job, or basically the senior is capable only in front of CERTAIN people, she/he will still want the respect.
6) If you know certain procedure or knowledge, you better keep it yourself. As people might find you over-confident if you were to share the information with your peers. If your peers happen to ask you something, just dump all the questions to the senior with you.
7) If you know you are capable in doing something, KEEP YOUR WINGS. If you overshow your wings, people view it as over-confident.
8) DO NOT discuss any surgery-related issue with the surgeon in front of certain senior, if not you will be labelled as irrespectful towards senior.
9) If you're a fast worker, people think that you're very stressful and anxious. If you're working slow, people complaint.
10) If you're still under probation, die die you better be HUMBLE, SOFT-SPOKEN, SUBMISSIVE in ALL time no matter how people bully you.
** Above sayings are applicable only to the minority. I do have capable, competent, willing-to-teach attitude, friendly seniors with me, and i truefully appreciate their willingness to share and the patient guidance that they've showered me.
Totally engrossed,
Scribbled by Valerie, pen down at
11/13/2007 11:53:00 AM
