Call me Meckay, 19 year old lady who lives in the UK. Been here for 5 years and was orginally from the Philippines. A 1st year univeristy student at Brum University and is inlove with my boyfriend Marlon.

Archive for reflection

Posted on Friday, Mar 14 at 6:22 pm

Filed under hospital, nursing, reflection, sad, student

Just woke up a minute ago, I did a night shift at the hospital . A patient died this morning in our shift, it was pretty sad and it kinda makes you reflect in a way how happy it is to be alive and experience the good (and bad) things in life.

[ post may be a little bit disturbing , sorry]

The patient was quite old, I had to stand by his side for 3 hours long as he kepts on taking his oxygen off as he was irritated with the oxygen mask and tube. I felt that he didn’t want to die as he was fighting for his life. He didn’t even want to close his eyes, so I just held his hand and told him to take some rest as he’s probably to tired. The doctor had to give him something to calm him down as he was moving all the time and they felt sorry for him. He’s not for resuscitation aswell coz they couldn’t get hold of his wife who he lives with.

I was actually the one who found out that he died as I checked on him at ten to 2am (1:50) and I saw that his chest was not moving and he was pretty cold. Kinda scary at first as it was the first time I actually saw a dead person and after that I told the nurses that he’s dead so we had to phone the doctors and their family (no one answered tho). We also had to do the last offices (clean,wash and prepare him) and the porters took him to the Rose cottage after.

Sorry for the post. Just wanted to share the experience that student nurses like me goes through while developing as a health professional.. Anyways as I was just saying everyone should enjoy the good things in life while were alive as we don’t actually know where we’ll end up after death.