Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

This morning, I was late for the endorsement. The IV nurse was already endorsing ICU 8 when I came. They normally start endorsing from ICU 9 to ICU 1. Since ICU 9 is vacant, they started the endorsement at ICU 8. So technically, I am not really that late.

After the endorsement, we, the trainees, together with the volunteers, waited for our patient assignment. But unexpectedly, the head nurse asked us to report about our patients yesterday. We were all surprised about the sudden "oral exam". We were already warned before that the head nurse would occasionally ask us about our patients but we didn't see it coming.

Anyway, I was able to answer his questions except for one. Why was D5NSS (5% Dextrose in normal saline solution) shifted to PNSS (plain normal saline solution)? Okay, I didn't know about that. I think I've heard about it during the endorsement but I couldn't remember it right at that moment. The answer was because the patient is already on soft diet. I honestly do not know the indications of the intravenous fluids that is why I am going to read about it later.

So after all of us have recited, he finally assigned us to our patients but in the middle of writing down our names to each patient on a piece of paper, he asked me a question that I never expected. I don't even know why he asked me that. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. He only asked me and the other volunteer.

"Gusto mo ba dito sa ICU?" (Do you want to work here in the ICU?) The head nurse asked.

Of course, I answered YES! As in YES WITH MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINT! Haha.

I was thinking that maybe the staff nurses felt that I am hating the routine care but my co-trainees told me that maybe because they liked my performance. "Hindi ka naman tatanungin ng ganun kung tatamad tamad ka eh. Parang inoofferan ka nga e," my co-trainees told me. (He wouldn't ask you such question if you're showing them that you're too lazy to work. It's like they're offering you a slot.)

I told my mom about it and she said the same thing. I hope they'll hire me in the ICU despite what I've ranted in my previous entry.