Monday, October 30, 2006
Hasnt been working for the past four days cos i got to attend the orientation programme and another course on quality control and service with heart.
Orientation was quite boring cos the speakers kept drilling the SGH 5Cs and core values into our minds. Almost all the speakers kept stressing on the importance of our vision and mission and the 185 years of history of the hospital. We even were told that we can only throughly understand the core values of the hospital provided that we can relate the vision and mission and the core values to ourselves. Last of all, we were also briefed on our dress code and how we should behave ourselves so not to tarnish the image and reputation of our hospital. Anyway, i am quite fortunate to have the accompany of my colleague cos i saw people going alone with no one to talk to. However i manage to have some small talks with a nurse clinician, a physiologist, and a staff nurse. They are very interesting people and during tea breaks, they even shared with me their nursing experiences and how they clean and pack up the body after one pass away.
At the same time, they were amazed that my colleague and i were working near the montuary cos they have heared all the creepy stories about the lift and the tunnel of which we got to try and clarify to them things that dont seems to exist at all.
The service heart and quality mind course was much more interesting than the orientation cos the course requires interaction between the team mates and we had quite a fun time presenting the assignments. Throughout the two days course, i get to see some very interesting people of which one is a joker male nurse(he will always lift up the spirits of the class), a self proclaimed rocker nurse( she always talk with the rocker attitude) and a very lohsoh patient care assistant( she can talk for non stop during her presentation which somehow makes people feel like she is a facilator so as a result everyone started to go to the toilet whenever its her turn to present) However its all thanks to these people that makes the course more interesting and i am sure they will bring lots of laughter to the patients and their respective wards.
Afterall, i have learnt quite a fair bit of things from the orientation and its really makes me feel part of SGH.
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