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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Woots! It's been 2 weeks since i have started work in CICU. Those 2 weeks seems to pass quite fast, and 1 mth orientation will soon be over, starting the AP shifts, followed by 12H shift.

CICU is just so Wows. When we get to know more abt the jobs they performed as a cicu nurse, it's another wow. No regrets in stepping into cicu. Beside to be able to be a code nurse, in future when there are natural disasters in other countries, we will be going thr to provide help which is always my dream whereby i will be able to go help as a nurse in other countries. So without being a UN nurse, i will be able to fulfil my dream by chance. (i'm nt wishing other countries to hv any natural disaster la.) We will also get to go to other countries to fetch cases if patients are coming over to SG to receive treatment. Beside travelling to overseas, whenever there are functions or big events such as national day or world bank conference, we will be the ones going there to perform duty as well. Sounds cool and fun hur. Kinda sounds exciting to me.

Well, everything has it's 2 sides. Beside naming all the good sides of being a cicu nurse, there're 'bad sides' too, but it will be temporary though. hopefully. Cos now we are stepping into cicu as a new fresh graduates and non-icu trained personels, it will be tough on us for nw. First, paeds itself is already a challenge, secondly it's icu, so it will be triple the challenge to us. They only started 2 years ago having to accept fresh graduates into icu, as they are short of young staffs nw. So if those realli cant make it in icu, they will be going back to upstairs (wards). But that doesnt mean that they are bad nurses, as icu itself is a very intense challenging environment to work in so have to see whether we are up to the extra challenge to face as compared to the ward. But we are lucky to have understanding sisters and staffs to guide us as they know we are not icu-trained. So now pray hard that we all will be able to make it!!!!

CICU was organised into 3 different disciplines. Surgical, medical as well as cardiac. Different areas has it's different challenges. Surgical involves different kinds of surgical pts to manage of, the patient that i came across was a neuro patient who undergo EVD insertion, so it's my first time nursing a neuro patient with EVD and monitoring ICP. Cardiac was quite an interesting place to work in, as will get to see open chest where you will realli c the heart pumping, and then they will perform close chest and chest toilet with OT personels coming over thr. So it's like suddenly the cardiac cubicle becomes an "operating threatre".

From the basic such as memorising different paramenters' limits for different age groups as we accept any age that is 2 kg and above. Lotsa of machinessssssssss to learn to handle, lotsa of syringe pumpsssssssss to handle, lotsa of 3-ways tapsssssssssssssss to handle, and there are endless things to learn. We were saying that icu was like a mystery place to us, everyday we will handle the un-knows and unveiling the mysteries one by one and we learn from it.

Planning to go ahead for advanced dip in critical care in future followed by degree, as sister advised us to go for advanced dip first cos firstly we are in a specialised area and secondly it will be easier to take on degree after taking advanced dip. Well I have planned to stay in CICU 'for life' as i finds cicu is a fun and challenge to work in.

Just hope that i will make it thr the probation period.

Jiayou!!!!!

belle @ 6:33 PM

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