Nurse-on-Leave

Yup, that’s me at the moment! Not nurse-on-call, not nurse-on-duty. I’m on my second week of my three weeks leave and I am enjoying it so much.

I guess, nurses really do need a break from the pressures of the demanding work. We look after patients, we attend to their needs. We tend to forget about ourselves – we forget to eat on time, or even to go to the bathroom on time. Meanwhile, we are able to feed our patients on time, and count their outputs on a regular basis. Just because we want to provide the best care possible for all the patients under our care.

And then this break comes when we can forget about patients, and look after ourselves this time. After all, we are also humans who need some pampering, some resting. This is the time when we feel more human, because we feel that our personal lives are also important, and need looking-after too.

And when fully recharged, we will be able to come back to our work, and look after other people again. And then forget about ourselves again. But we will always look forward to that vacation period when we can love ourselves again.

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What I’ve Learned

an inspiring video for nurses by uabnursing.org.

World Teachers’Day

3rd Post for Fil-Nurses Blog site

My 3rd article for the Filipino Nurses blog site appears today. This one’s entitled “The High as a Nurse” written last year to remember my first year in my new work place.

Thanks to everyone who liked and commented!

For the article at the Filipino Nurses Blog Site, click HERE.

For the repost in FB via RSS Graffitti, click HERE.

For the repost in my FB profile, click HERE.

For the original post on this site, click HERE.

Happy 3rd Blogiversary!

My blog is 3 years old today! How time flies!

Three years ago when I started this site, I was still thinking twice. I was not sure whether people would read, or if people would like what they read. But now, I am glad that people do read and people do like what they read.

For the last year, file sharing within the cyberworld has tremendously improved. Now, my posts can also be read in Facebook and Twitter. My posts also made me become a contributing writer for the Filipino Nurses Blog site, which has more than 153,000 members  to this date.

Allow me to thank everyone who regularly visited, those who subscribed by email, those who left encouraging comments, those who clicked “like”, those who shared the posts on FB, those who “tweeted”, and those who just dropped by. I will forever be grateful for sharing your time with me.

Happy 3rd Birthday, Digital Catharsis!