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| Can somebody help me clean!!!! l Image by Ron Leishman |
This is a sublime and clever re-entry into blogging after all the seriousness in my previous posts. I for sure took you a little solemn-bound with all the ideas I have presented in the past few weeks. But this time, I want to share with you something more entertaining. Don’t you think we deserve some time to let loose?
My first two weeks back to hospital was never that easy even if going back there this time means that I’m no longer a student but a holder of the same license almost "everyone else" has. The call out to find a steady employment in the hospital summons an even greater problem than just passing the licensure exam.
Just this July, another set of thousands of nursing graduates battled with the five hundred questions of the Nursing Board Examinations. Soon enough, thousands again will be joining the jobless crowd in the country.
Despite having the license to work in the hospital, having a sufficient experience would still count. And as a new kid on the block of the nursing profession, I feel the pressure to double my effort in terms of knowledge, skills, and attitude.
I am one of the “lucky” few who were accepted to work as volunteer in one of the level 4 hospitals here in the city. Before we were set out to the different areas of the hospital, batches of assorted policies were oriented to us. It was very demanding of our time yet helpful.
There is one topic that reminded me that nursing isn’t limited to taking the vital signs, administering medications, and other clinical procedures but making certain that the hospital environment is conducive to every patient’s healing. I’m specifically talking of the Waste Management Program of the hospital where I’m in.
Constituted in the program is the Infection Control. The Infection Control Nurse of the hospital encouraged me personally when she presented the topic with humor but with so much sense. She said in her lecture that there are 8 fun facts about infection control:
There is one topic that reminded me that nursing isn’t limited to taking the vital signs, administering medications, and other clinical procedures but making certain that the hospital environment is conducive to every patient’s healing. I’m specifically talking of the Waste Management Program of the hospital where I’m in.
Constituted in the program is the Infection Control. The Infection Control Nurse of the hospital encouraged me personally when she presented the topic with humor but with so much sense. She said in her lecture that there are 8 fun facts about infection control:
- During an hour’s swimming at a municipal pool you will ingest 1/12 liter of urine.
I just want to swim not drink ur*ne :P l Image taken from tumblr.net
2. In an average day your hands will have come into direct contact with 15 penises (touching door handles,etc.)
Are you sure what you're touching is really what it is? l
Image taken from thecoolgadgets.com3. An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic hairs.
How does it taste? :D l Image taken from fastfoodfavs.com 4. In a year you will have swallowed 14 insects- while you slept.
zzzzzzzzzz... l Image taken from google images 5. Annually you will shake hands with 11 men who failed to wash their hands.
oops! l Image by Dennis Cox 6. Annually you will shake hands with 6 women who have failed to wash their hands.
whew! l Image taken from ClipartOf.com 7. At an average wedding reception you have a 1/100 chance of getting cold sore from one of the guests (greeting and kissing cheek to cheek).
Don't give me a cold sore.. l Image taken from ClipartOf.com 8. Daily you will breathe in 1 liter of other peoples’ anal gases.
ughh! l Image taken from ClipartOf.com
These statistics may even be greater than you think. Maybe it only gives us a hint that keeping up for a clean environment and practicing the habit of washing our hands (hospital setting or not) is still very essential.Strange will it be to be ingesting pubic hairs and inhaling anal gases if we’d only look right through this simple yet funny truth about cleanliness!
What do you think?
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