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Thank you S/N

Warning. This is a sarcastic post. I have spend a couple of days at the delivery suite of my teaching hospital here and there are some interesting things that I have learned, thanks to the staff nurses.

- It is allright to be double standard. A doctor who was admitted for normal delivery shall receive better service than a non-doctor patient with similar problem. The sister should attend, explain the procedures, talk nicely, screen the suite all times, reheck her + vital signs every half and hour (plotted).

- The delivery suite hall be screened at all times for VIPS and one nurse shall attend her in the suite at all times. Non-Vip patients CANNOT be screened so that and I quote what S/N said ‘the nurses can watch the patient from far away’

- VIPS’s husbands can come in the delivery suite anytime of the day even the os is 4 or even closed but a non-vip patient requires os of 5 and above only then husband can come in regardless of patient’s request.

- We should counsel the patient that if they do not want pain, it is better not to get pregnant and just deal with the pain because it is a normal process thus patients do not require pain killers.

- Mothers cannot groan in pain. It is absurd. hush!!! shut-up!!

- The mother is deemed not to be cooperating if she takes a breath after a hard push. So to cooperate, mothers should not take a breath after a long pushing.

- Fundal pressure is useful if the mother is exhausted. It is important to deliver the baby regardless if it’s dying.

There are more, I can’t recall…I will add if there is some more.

The thing is I am not disrespecting the staff nurses out of no reason, I thank them for all the teaching and guidance they are great first liners in the management of mothers in labour however certain human rights and ethical part of them is just absent or maybe taken for granted and that I have no power or authority to give some constructive critisims to them. They will view it as an act of disrespect.

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July 5, 2009 Posted by Syafiq | Medicine, Myself | delivery, hospital batu pahat, hospitals, labour room, malaysia, nurse, staff | No Comments Yet

Nasi Kandar

The other day, I was in Seberang Jaya Hospital, Penang accompanying my fiance on-call but I was desperate for a nice nasi kandar =)) So I just went to the island and headed for the famous Line Clear Nasi Kandar with some help of Google Map. According to the locals, the name Line Clear was the word used by the workers to indicate that the table is free to be seated. =)

The entrance was actually a lorong in between the buildings. It is a no shop block area. The kitchen is the entrance. Even bikes can enter!

The middle part is the place where they serve. They will usually banjir the nasi kandar unless you say not to. =)

And the back part which I did not shoot =P The nasi kandar is great. Sweet n spicy. Oh ya it costs rm5.60 for the rice w/o vege =P n rm1.00 for the teh ais. Cool kan??

I’m blogging to release stress. Medicine posting is way too serious here. Can’t take it….

Man U today…

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May 28, 2009 Posted by Syafiq | Food | | 2 Comments

Kampung Angkat Motivation

To all my team members =)

Details…

Date of Motivation is 14th June 09 - 2nd Day of Kampung Angkat Project
Number of students - 200. 100 from upper primary and 100 from upper secondary – amount of students will be confirmed later.
Time - 7.30am to 9.00am – revised from 8.00am
Duration of event – 1.5 hours was given after the tentative has been brought earlier by 30 minutes. We can ‘eat’ up to 15 minutes maximum past 9.00am as the Sukaneka for the adults n kids is starting at 9.
Place – Classrooms of SRK Parit Kadir – the same place medical checkup was done 1 day earlier. Pending to use the whole school arena if possible.

Current Plan
Each facilitator will have a focus group of approximately 10 students They will lead them through out the program. Each and every one will have the luxury to choose between primary kids or secondary kids depending on your suitability. We decide later in briefing. The facilitators will be given a module.

OBJECTIVES – ‘Menanamkan semangat pembelajaran berpanjangan dan nilai-nilai murni dalam kehidupan”
aka “To ____ Lifelong learning and values in life” – sounds boring =P but the “Theme” will be different ya =) we alter this later la…

METHOD OF DELIVERY – Fun and entertaining event that the kids will remember and enjoy. Minimal effect is achieved through long hour talks, so we keep that to minimum.

Tentative
1. Ice-breaking & Interpersonal talk with facilitators – 20 minutes
2. Outcome based games (2) – 50 minutes
3. Motivation talk and conclusion + prize or gift presentation – 20 minutes

Big group meeting currently is not necessary until the motivational planners have laid out the thorough plan and module. Next big group meeting will be 1 or 2 weeks before the event for briefing. All must be present ya!!

Comments, suggestions, ideas are welcomed =))

May 7, 2009 Posted by Syafiq | Events | | No Comments Yet

Save it!

One of my senior put up a note in our new house. Dear fellow humans, SAVE!! Please do not forget to SAVE! – Got any idea what it meant? =)

It has been a while…. again.. I really can’t get the consistency to blog aften.. =)

Anyway, I have settled in Batu Pahat. I felt mixed. I do not know what to prioritise. I have something big coming up hehe. I will blog abt it.

March 9, 2009 Posted by Syafiq | Myself | | 5 Comments

The Holocaust

Got this from email, worth sharing…

THE GRANDCHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

FROM WORLD WAR II ARE DOING TO THE

PALESTINIANS EXACTLY WHAT WAS DONE TO THEM

BY NAZI REGIME …

…PLEASE FORWARD…

BUILDING WALLS & FENCES TO KEEP PEOPLE IN PRISONS

CHECK POINTS NOT TO ALLOW PEOPLE BASIC FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

Syafiq says –

Please help in the name of human rights, it is not always about the Muslims… =)

January 25, 2009 Posted by Syafiq | islam | | No Comments Yet

Top 5 Lies About Israel’s Assault on Gaza

Found this… good to know

January 3, 2009

by Jeremy R. Hammond

Lie #1) Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.

The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world. The presence of militants within a civilian population does not, under international law, deprive that population of their protected status, and hence any assault upon that population under the guise of targeting militants is, in fact, a war crime.

Moreover, the people Israel claims are legitimate targets are members of Hamas, which Israel says is a terrorist organization. Hamas has been responsible for firing rockets into Israel. These rockets are extremely inaccurate and thus, even if Hamas intended to hit military targets within Israel, are indiscriminate by nature. When rockets from Gaza kill Israeli civilians, it is a war crime.

Hamas has a military wing. However, it is not entirely a military organization, but a political one. Members of Hamas are the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people. Dozens of these elected leaders have been kidnapped and held in Israeli prisons without charge. Others have been targeted for assassination, such as Nizar Rayan, a top Hamas official. To kill Rayan, Israel targeted a residential apartment building. The strike not only killed Rayan but two of his wives and four of his children, along with six others. There is no justification for such an attack under international law. This was a war crime.

Other of Israel’s bombardment with protected status under international law have included a mosque, a prison, police stations, and a university, in addition to residential buildings.

Moreover, Israel has long held Gaza under siege, allowing only the most minimal amounts of humanitarian supplies to enter. Israel is bombing and killing Palestinian civilians. Countless more have been wounded, and cannot receive medical attention. Hospitals running on generators have little or no fuel. Doctors have no proper equipment or medical supplies to treat the injured. These people, too, are the victims of Israeli policies targeted not at Hamas or legitimate military targets, but directly designed to punish the civilian population.