Motherhood

I will shout it out loud: “MOTHERHOOD IS THE BEST THING THAT’S EVER HAPPENED TO ME!”

Many would agree that parenthood is not easy, so why do many still opt to have kids? A big part of it ofcourse is our biologic need to multiply, otherwise mankind will face extinction – but in this day and age, we have this choice of whether or not we would like to take on that big responsibility of taking care of another person.

So why do I say it’s the best thing that’s happened to me? Although very difficult, not to mention very expensive, to have children, motherhood brings out the best in me. I would have never known my capacity to love someone else – unconditionally, even more than myself. The sacrifices that we do for our children! As they say, we will understand our parents love for us only after we become parents ourselves.

I would have never discovered how patient I can be. Those sleepless nights when my children woke up every two hours to nurse – I managed to drag myself out of bed no matter how tired I was. Those times that they were sick, I dropped everything to be by their side.

NP vs RN Job Satisfaction on Patient Care

Scenario: A Registered Nurse (RN) calls to my attention that a patient who has a permacath access for hemodialysis has fever and chills. I, the Nurse Practitioner (NP), tells the RN to draw blood cultures times two and to go ahead and give 1 gm of Vancomycin. In the mean time, the RN draws blood for cultures, places them in two blood culture bottles, packages them and sends them to the labs. While doing this, she also gets to assess the permacath access site for obvious signs of infection, like drainage, redness or tenderness, cleans the site and puts new fresh dressing. Then the RN gets to hang the Vancomycin IV bag and infuse it to the patient through his permacath. All this time, the RN also gets to talk to the patient, explains what she is doing, why she's doing it and tells him what to expect.