It's so SCARY!
Nad just posted something on facebook about nurses from this particular hospital serving facebook at work.
Why scary?
Because anytime anyone would get pictures taken and being publish online, without even you knowing it!
Remember this was one of the GP topic when I was in junior college, talking about mass media and internet, how people are abusing it and stuff.
I am of course not saying that the nurses are doing the right thing by sneaking up to facebook, what I am focusing more is how IRRESPONSIBLE people get by just publishing things like this without thinking in the other person's shoe.
What would happen to the nurses being shot?
What would the public think of nurses who are in front of the computer?
We do at times use the internet to google for the information we need so as to understand a condition better and from there we work it out better for the patients.
So does it mean that from now on so long as we are not on programmes that contains patients' information we are being not professional?
And I am sure everyone from all walks of life do get a lil' distracted here and there at work too, be it facebook or not. Some get on to MSN, some listen to radio at work, does that necessarily mean unprofessional?
Recently there is such a research shows that by sneaking to check personal emails or doing something that is not work related for a short while increases productivity. I do personally think that by getting a lil' distracted when not facing patients do help to get back the focus I need when I have to face the patients, because it is simply impossible to focus 8 hours straight, one could collapse at work before you even realize that or commit an error due to exhaustion at the end of the 8 hours! I do think that it is still acceptable so long as
1. it doesn't endanger another person's life;
2. so long as they have finished what they ought to and have to do;
3. patients' welfare is not beign compromised.
-Sigh-
I sympathize the person in the picture; and I just feel that it is getting tougher and tougher to be a nurse in Singapore.
And for now.... I am gonna check out the site, in case I find any familiar face in there... as in, too familiar face. May be I should wear a mickey mouse or donald duck mask out whenever I am on train or bus, with a coat that cover up my uniform in case I get too tired and knocked out totally on bus.
(-_-)...
