OR as an elective?

Today, I woke up with my 6 months old puppy, Laula, in my room chewing some pencil. good gracious!

Gawd. She can be stubborn!

I feel sad since last night because our OR duty had to end.. I guess it's where I enjoyed the most, of all the departments. I mean...in the ward, it's all nurse-patient interaction, and you've gotta deal with different sorts of personalities. There's the patient in agony.. There's the relative who won't trust a student.. There's them who wouldn't entertain you..

In the service ICU, the patients are obtunded..are unresponsive.. The feeling is ghastly, knowing that any moment, someone might die.

In the community, well.. it bores us sometimes.. It's all about immunizations, pediatric profile, family assessments..

Life as a student nurse is like a routine you should be used to by the time you're in 4th year, I guess?

Okay.. So, in the OR, 'almost' everyone is jolly. There's the head nurse for a start who's very patient at our faults. There are the ortho docs which makes girls smile a lot. There's the sound of the first cries of the newborn babies during CS. There's the staff who seem content with their work. There are the students who 'nenoks' stuff hehe.. There's Poa and I who constantly kid about water-soluble lubricating jelly as a necessity in life's da works.. ;p

It's incomparable to others! But I really think I will not choose OR as an elective. I think that E.R. will be a very crazy experience! 'Cause in the OR, it's the company of others that makes the experience worthwile. In the ER, I'm still not sure what to 'really really' expect.. I have to figure it then. can't wait to be in the ER which is in our 4th year pa!