A friend approached me enquiring on scholarship in my profession, on exploring further, she revealed that she was asking for a friend who was looking for the "easiest" way to stay here.
I don't know how to tell her, just tell her to check with the human resource from various hospitals.
But...
Somehow it does bugged me a little because it just sounded wrong.
I did warned her that she has to remind her friend to be realistic because...
I am not being proud or boastful...
I just feel that nursing, is not just for anyone.
The reality is, we are handling what normal persons might not want to handle (like literally shit and urine, as per layman way of saying); we are tapped for our expertise in our own specialty area by the patients, family members, sometimes even doctors; we do have our time that we have to in a way clear the crap created by our colleagues or even the health care team (and yes, that include the doctors); the endless reports, audits (internal and external), participate in research/quality improvement projects and so on and most of the time this eats into our own time; do teaching preparing slides on our own and not to mention the endless examinations and upgrading courses that we constantly need to go for?
I guess most of all...
What bugs me most is her motive.
I don't know about others, but I feel that most of us who are still in this line and still keep on going, more or less we are in love with what we do. And for a person who wanted to come into this line harboring the thought of "it will help to gain citizenship faster and easier", seriously, I don't like it. Think about having someone to nurse you who is not wholeheartedly like what she is doing...
May be I am just too naive.
May be I cannot just fault the person base on this as well.
Whatever it is, God bless.
