A Peek of a Nurse’s life

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INTERVIEWED:

 ELFE C. BOWERMAN (CAREGIVER)

 ROMAR M. BENDIOLA (REGISTERED NURSE)
 JO ANA HULIGANGA (NEONATAL NURSE)

All respondents have similar jobs where the first and foremost duty is to help
the patient’s/ward’s condition alleviate.

Typical activities in their job include:

 Checking parent’s overall condition

 Seeing that the patient’s needs are met
 Sees to it that the patient takes prescribed medicine/s at the schedules of
intake
 Sees to it that patient follows whatever diet the doctor has prescribed
 Sees to it that the patient is comfortable
 Updates the doctor of improvements or deterioration of patient’s
illness
 Helps doctor perform medical procedures

They work 40-60 hours in a typical week due to some of the shifts being 24
hours.
To have a career as a nurse, it is needed to have a background in nursing, to
have passed the board exam to be a registered nurse, to have work experience
from small organizations.

They mostly work with the injured, afflicted, elderly, and people close to their
deaths.

Their colleagues are caregivers, nursing assistants, doctors, therapists,

pharmacists etc… Any person with a specialty that helps in their ward’s
sickness works with caregivers and nurses. (Romar Bendiola says that he has
found good people to befriend through this chosen career)

Their motive for pursuing this particular career is to help their fellow people,
to save lives and to serve the elderly. And it is most enjoyable for them because
they get to meet people with different backgrounds and personalities expanding
their perspective on life and they relish learning the science behind the body
and its different diseases.

To successfully fulfil the duties of this job, one needs to have skills in
communication; one has to be decisive; knowledgeable in the variety of health
problems; has to be good in building rapport; must be equipped with critical
thinking and endurance. These are needed skills as to when a patient is
admitted, a nurse/caregiver could immediately tend to them.

The most challenging part about their job is to see constantly see people at their
worse stat; to give a rough estimate on what their condition is to the
doctor/paramedics; and to try to resuscitate a patient.

(It’s always a challenge whenever there is a life and death situation, when you
need to perform a cardiopulmonary resuscitation to revive the patient back to
life. –Jo Ana Huliganga)
Even though, this job has many hardships caregivers and nurses form great
relationships with their patients and the patient’s families sometimes even after
they’ve passed and the newborns that are taken care of by a neonatal nurse has
a relationship where they both adore eachother.
(Elfe Bowerman states that “ I am very close with my wards and their families;
it brings me joy that I could stay connected to my patient’s kin even after they
have departed”)

 (I think my newborns love me because of how I care for them; I swaddle them;
carry them; give them milk and bathe them. Through all those things we form a
connection which I cherish –Jo Ana Huliganga)

To begin pursuing these career/s one can start with an experience in First-Aid
training; to have volunteered at numerous medical programs; to have had Basic
Life Support Trainings: to have taken the subjects Anatomy and Physiology and
of course, a background in nursing.

Physical Therapist, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Respiratory Therapist, Medical

Technologist and pharmacist are among the many others that work with
caregivers/nurses/neonatal nurses so they would know how to best help their
patient/s situation.
Interview process: