Integrity
Was sent for a course for 4 days, and today was just the day one.
Want to pen this down before I forget/let this thing slipped my mind.
Traumatized.
Why?
We were playing a game, which the 8 teams has come to an agreement to do something together, which ultimately, one team betrayed.
I find it very disturbing.
As a healthcare professional, I valued integrity A LOT, for behind the curtain, it is just us and the clients, whatever that we do, whatever we document that whether if we have done it, ultimately it is our integrity. There is NO SHORT CHANGE, BLACK IS BLACK, WHITE IS WHITE when we come to this part of our character, this, is apparently what I THINK only.
As this is a leadership course, I presumed that we were the identified possible leaders in future, and to think what this people do.
Yes, I agree that this is ONLY a game.
But if you can't even stick to your integrity in a game, what should I expect when it come to serious work?
CAN I STILL TRUST YOU?
To me, it tells a lot.
And...
Worse is, there is no guilt in the group of person who did it. They didn't voice out anything during the negotiation and even during the open interview, the person did not show any signs of shame or guilt.
Perhaps I am just taking things too seriously. I asked myself how should I look at things from the bright side?
So.... I told myself, lucky thing, these group of people are not my colleagues, and they better don't be. And... 80% of the people are still keeping to what was agreed on.
I didn't want to complain or be too critical nor judgmental, I just couldn't help but to find it disturbing. So much for future leaders huh.
ProfessionalismHad been in a lot of thinking lately.
About being professional.
I don't know.
Heard someone commented on another person about being professional include not letting the client seen that you were relieved because the situation is finally under control.
Is it true?
I wonder.
How should one define professional then?
Is being professional means that one should mask all their emotions and feelings, views and opinions on things or should it be not being judgmental while maintaining their views and opinions on different issues?
Sigh.
Nurse with a crutch' now helps other patients in needNurse with a crutch' now helps other patients in need
One moment, the wind was blowing in her face as she rode her motorcycle along Tampines Avenue 9.
The next, she was on the road, bleeding and broken.
Ms Siti Hajar Ninhadi, then 22, was on her way home from Singapore General Hospital (SGH), where she worked as a nurse, when she became a victim of a hit-and-run accident.
It was January 2007.
"I had forgotten my wallet, and I was on my way home to retrieve it. It was my second night shift that week. I had called my mother and she was waiting for me, but I never showed," she said.
The accident left her with two broken knees, a fractured arm and a cracked skull.
"Initially, the police said I had skidded but a year later, a witness came forward. He saw the accident from his flat and said a white van drove away from the scene," she said. She added that till today, no one has been prosecuted for the case.
Ms Siti, now 30, said she regained consciousness at the emergency room of Changi General Hospital (CGH).
The first thing she did was to count her fingers and toes.
"But I counted only five toes, so I asked where my other five were. Then I discovered my knee was badly broken and my leg had folded so awkwardly that my foot was next to my face. I started crying and screaming for them to fix me," she said.
By then her family members had arrived.
"Thinking it could be my last moments, my grandmother whispered the Shahada (the Muslim proclamation of faith) in my ear just before I was pushed into the operating theatre. The doctors worked on me for over seven hours," she said.
Doctors at CGH told her she would be wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life. Not wanting to give up her independence and her career as a nurse, Ms Siti asked to be transferred to SGH where she works.
"I wanted to be surrounded by the people I know. And when my orthopaedic surgeon told me I had a 50-50 chance of recovery if I were to go through multiple surgeries, it gave me that glimmer of hope, and I agreed," she said.
A donor knee bone had to be sourced and flown in from a bone bank in Britain and implanted.
"Physiotherapy was not only painful but tiring. There were times I wanted to give up. I became depressed, especially when I saw nurses run around attending to call bells, going with doctors on their rounds, and helping patients. I missed doing that and it made me cry," she said.
"As nurses, we often encourage patients to stay strong. Being on the other side, I found that staying strong was not an easy thing to do," she added.
But her family and friends rallied around her, visiting every day and taking turns to keep her spirits up.
After a month in the hospital, Ms Siti stood for the first time.
"My legs were heavy and painful, but the ward nurses and my family were cheering and urging me on to take that first step. When I did, there were no dry eyes in the room," she said.
Ms Siti returned to work exactly a year after her accident.
"To stop people from knocking me over, I went to work with a crutch and was known for a long time as 'the nurse with a crutch'," she said.
Now an Assistant Nurse Clinician and with the Office for Integrated Care at SGH, she refers patients to the appropriate community providers that can help to support them with their needs.
"A holistic and patient-centric care will greatly reduce the stress, doubts and uncertainties a patient and his caregiver go through.
"I have overcome this major crisis in my life and I am proud to be back on my feet to be able to continue my job as a nurse and give back to the community," she said.
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Proud of you Siti.
It must have been really painful for you.
Now I see it.
No wonder when it happened to Mandy, you and Lina were so affected.
Still....
Proud of you.
