Survived !...... still surviving and coping

Well...well...well...well...just risen from the graveyard hahahaha....sorry for the lack of post....been busy orientating myself with my new working environment.

After the three-month long studies for the PICU Internship Course, I officially joined the newly opened PICU on March 2009. New environment, with old and new colleagues, new Nurse Manager, and our ever hardworking Clinical Resource Nurse.

My first few weeks at the PICU was'nt that easy. Being out of PICU for almost 3 years and 8 months, it was really difficult to cope up with the intensive care set up. There were times that I really cried, I felt that I am so stressed with tons of workload, seemed like 12-hour shift was not adequate enough to finish all the things that I had to do for my patient for a particular shift.

With the Mandatory Competencies that I have to finish, it made my PICU life even more difficult. Good thing that I have enough time to study during my days off. At last! I am still here...still surviving and coping.

A Different Side of Me

Being a senior forumer of Philippine Overseas Employment Administration(POEA) Message Board or simply POEA Forum, I have this feeling that I have a responsibility to protect my co-forumers. It has been ages since I joined the forum. If my memory serves me right, I joined way back first quarter of year 2006.The previous POEA Forum was hosted by another free webhosting site and not the proboards that we can see nowadays.There was a major revision of the forum way back February 2007 so I registered again with same username.

Few days before the month of January ended,there was a major mishap happened in the forum. I was so irritated the way that this forumer copied or shall I say, cloned 3 senior forumers which happened to be officers of Pinoy Forumers Society,Inc.

Though I was not the one directly involved, I felt that I have to decide on something that will definitely teach the culprit on how she should behave in a public forum. I exerted all my efforts to track her. So glad that Mr. Gabito helped me as well as my friends in the said forum. Thanks to POEA forum administrator and global moderator for their immediate response.

Luckily, the culprit apologized and asked for our understanding and the rest is history or else something different will surely happen. I believed that she will always be around. Unfortunately, she might not be able to log in again with same usernames that she created because all her usernames and IP addresses were all banned by the forum administrator.

Due to this mishap, a wish came into my mind. Fortunately my wish was granted and the birth of the username Misalyn.

As of now, I am busy with the full clean-up that will streamline the threads on 3 sections so as to give easy access to the important information on the message board.

I believe that everything happens for a reason and with this, I firmly believe that I am a forumer advocate not only a patient advocate being a nurse.

Everything happens for a reason....

Sorry for the lack of post. Been busy and still busy with the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit(PICU) Nurses Internship Course.

The PICU Intership Course started last month. In this course I need to pass the Precourse exam, weekly module exam, and the final exam.As for the theory part, I have to struggle with the six-week-classroom day for eight hours. My.... I'm telling you...it is really brain-draining but it is really interesting. It keeps me thinking....I really love the pathophysiology part. It keeps my brain cells working.

Looking back at the day that I received the letter from our Associate Director of Nursing (ADON) informing me that I belong to the lucky guys who passed the interview and will be transferred to PICU, I was so ecstatic.....so happy that I even screamed and jumped inside the coffee room of Pediatric Surgery while my co-staff nurses were looking at me. I thought that I just need some refreshers for me to perform well as a PICU nurse......reality striked and made me feel that I really lost my ICU skills after spending my 3 years and 8 months in Pediatric Surgery. I am so thankful that I belong to this class....the first batch of nurses on PICU Intership Course.

After the respiratory module exam, I felt that the intensity of burden increased just by merely looking at the cardiology module. I think the bulk of the course is the cardio module if I am going to compare it to the diseases that we need to study. Oh God...please help me....I don't know if I will pass this stage.

All I can say is.....Thy will be done..... I believe that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

Bye 2008.....Welcome 2009

Year 2008 is definitely a good year for me, especially the last quarter of this year.I am so blessed with so many things, material and non material things.

Thank you to...
1. my family: who truly loves me and for always believing in me, especially my husband who always support me in my endeavours.
2. officers and members of Pinoy Forumers Society,Inc.: for supporting the group's project and for always believing that we can make it.
3. my colleagues in the hospital : for being a good team
4. Hospital Admin and Nursing Admin for giving me a chance to pursue my PICU dream. The long wait is over!

As the year ends, I am hoping that everything will be alright and will continue the same. I am ready to welcome year 2009 with hopes, wishes and dreams in my heart and in my mind.