First Pay.

No. I am not yet hired but last night, I got my first pay as a nurse. I mean, I do have small-time business but nothing beats getting paid as a nurse. Although my "salary" is somewhat lesser than the minimum pay, at least somehow I felt being paid. Haha.

Last night, the trainees in Pedia Ward didn't show up so automatically, they pulled out the trainees from the other wards. We really hate being pulled out because the problem is that we might miss the "case". Since we are trainees, we are supposed to learn from our hospital experience. How are we going to learn if we won't see the important cases, right?

So yeah, I was pulled out as expected but you know where I was pulled out? At the hospital's owner's room. I was pulled out as a private duty nurse. They want someone who is responsible enough to handle the patient. At first, I didn't want to not because of my reason I stated above, but because "she" is "*her name here*". She is a well known pediatrian in the Philippines, the first Filipina who was able to study in Harvard and many firstssss. I forgot the others. Imagine the pressure on me. Haha. I was like, "what if she'll get dyspneic?", "What if something happens?" Hahaha. The supervisor assured me that she is stable. She's 96 years old, by the way.

Anyways, my night shift was okay. Since it is was a night shift, I was able to sleep for like 6 hours. Hahaha. I loved it. Although she woke up at around 12 midnight because she felt hungry. After her relative fed her, we went back to sleep. I woke up at around 4:30 am to prepare her other meds for the day and to complete the forms I have to fill-up.

She, my patient, is really nice. She even laughed while I was there although it scared me when she said that there's a kid with us even though it's the only three of us (me, her and her relative) who were there. CREEPYYYYY!!!

Before I went home, her relative handed me my payment for the whole shift. My other co-trainees envied me because of my "salary" and they said that if and when they would be pulled out as a PDN, they won't hesitate to go there. LOL