From Duty..

Yesterday's tour of duty was so far, the best, most accomplished, most productive I've done since I started my internship. Though I know I still have flaws in the way I endorsed our patients this morning, I feel I have done great since it was I who made the rounds. After the mock endorsements at midnight (before my residents rested & told us to sleep for a while), I went back to check on our patient's antibiotics (if they have one), assessed the outputs (urobag, Jackson-Pratt drain, thorabottle, colostomy bag), read doctors' orders, reviewed the charts for any plans of operations, looked through the results of different ancillary procedures done. I didn't receive any commendation verbally but I saw one of the residents on duty last night nodding his head, as if telling me that I really did my rounds well. I liked my post yesterday.

On my next duty on friday (hmm. which reminds me, it's also my birthday!), I'll be on a different post. Hopefully, I'll have the same enthusiasm with the way I do my rounds like yesterday, or even better. And that the way I endorse the patients on saturday will be the same, or even greater. So that, I could earn their trust.

Hope I could handle the pressure.