Whatever happened to the nursing profession ?

Why do many nurses have to be a stupid, ignorant lot ?
Worse still, why does my mom have to suffer because of them ?

The specialist doctor in IPR told the nurses over and over again, put on the ventilator at night for mom.

They did not - most probably out of ignorance. And in the morning, we almost lost her. She is now in the emergency ward ; things are tense right now. I don't wanna lose her, neither does anyone else in the family ! I'm worried for her. And I'm still praying. I'm still angry with those ignorant people.

Which reminds me over and over again, what has happened to the nursing profession ? The nurses who graduate from training are supposed to deal with patients kindly and with total care and concern. The thing about many of them (I didn't say all) is, they do their training well for the sake of passing an examination and getting to work quickly ; and once they are at work, they forget their ethics and stick to their own kind. Sometimes, they race for money, and working in the intensive care unit is more promising than working in a normal ward. For the sake of the money, and so that they can say "they finished their job", they would do their work haphazardly and leave the patients in a crisis.

I noted this in SJMC, when the wrong medicine was administered to her and we almost lost her on 2008.06.02. In that same hospital, her trachiostomy stitches were harshly removed, they caused her great pain. Her breathing was kept at 5-12 - barely surviving, with a high carbon dioxide rate. I noticed this in Putrajaya, when mom was molested by a male nurse twice, and she was called a devil once for breathing heavily, and they forced the oxygen tube on her neck - it was so painful, her phlegm had blood in it. The doctor knew at an instant that it was local trauma - extreme pressure onto the neck area. And now, I'm noticing this in IPR, a specialist centre, where we almost lost her - and in a specialist centre like this, where requests from all over the country are accepted, this should not be happening.

Nurses treat patients as robots, as problems ; but hardly as human beings who need a new lease of life. Mom is someone whom I hold dear to me. I've been very close to her and only she can understand what goes on in this heart of mine, and I can understand hers. I'm not willing to keep her in the care of ignorant nurses who only care to treat her as a problem. I know how joyful the Putrajaya nurses were, when they found that they would have fewer patients in the intensive care unit. This is not the way a nurse should behave ! What happened to the honest, caring, loving lot, whose hands have a soft touch, comforting patients all over ? All of them must have been exterminated by quota and regulations, I reckon !

Sometimes I wonder why God does not hear my cries. Or maybe He does, but He is not acting on them.

This is my only plea, Lord : please bring mom back home, help her to breathe well and give her a new start to life. Just like You raised Lazarus from the dead, and you cured so many people of their illnesses, I'm sure that You can do everything in Your power to cure her and bring her back to us.