The Diary Game ||2/12/2025|| My Worst Experience in the Antenatal Ward.

Hello everyone, and happy new month to you all. Today I would love to talk about my experience in the antenatal ward. The experiences I had in this ward were so horrible in the beginning, but it actually ended well; at least I learned something today.

In the morning I woke up, prayed, and prepared for work. I and my colleagues reported to the ward this morning, and the nurse on duty was so cruel, arrogant, and unaccommodating. Our welcome greetings was for her to assign patients to each of us to manage and handed us their folders to magnet everything about the patient in just five minutes even when she did orientation for us she was so disorganized and dramatic she couldn't even concentrate and she keep repeating one thing many times, she didn't even allow us to use our phone to do anything in the ward as if that was not enough she gave us exams to write this same morning when we didn't even learn anything from the ward it was so frustrating and annoying at the same time, she even told us that we are the dullest set of students that she has ever worked with and she said we have mental disorders that our village people are after us and the most embarrassing part of this is that she actually said all this she in the presence of the patients in the ward. When I went beside her to watch what she was doing with a patient, she shouted at me and asked me to get out of her sight. Besides that, she said all kinds of unbelievable things about us; just the first day of seeing us, she already concluded that we are not worthy to be in the profession. It's not that she is even the ward charge; she is just a nursing officer, and she behaved like she owns the hospital. Even when she was gossiping to the ward charge and some of the colleagues who were with her, they disagreed with her. Even the ward charge was on our side, telling her that we are here to learn, make mistakes, and be corrected, not to do her job for her, but she was still trying to defend herself.

Sincerely speaking, a nurse on duty should not give her job to a student nurse to do because student nurses on clinicals are still under training, and there are some topics that have not yet been taught to them. Besides, the main reason we go to the hospital is to witness health cases and learn from these cases. If possible, we can also take part in the procedures and management of these cases under supervision from the nurse on duty in case we don't do it right. That is how I learn. I don't know if anyone can learn from that type of nurse, but I can't learn from a toxic and abusive environment. I need my self-esteem if I want to work perfectly, not under pressure and embarrassment.

In the afternoon around 12:09pm some crew of medical practitioners came into the ward to request for some health practitioners in the hospital so that they can have a seminar to train some health care workers in the hospital to enlighten and upgrade their knowledge on how to manage and care for the patients in their different wards. Some members of the antenatal ward were selected, and members of other wards were also invited, and I was privileged to be there, so I learned a lot from the crews, though I wasn't selected because they didn't need students; they needed workers from the hospital. I decided to take a photo of them practicing what they were taught by the medical crews.

When they were done with the seminar, they were divided into team A and team B. Each team was given a task to perform what they had learned so far. In each team a midwife was selected, and a doctor, lab technician, and other professionals were selected to work in harmony while the judges assessed their performance. The two teams performed so perfectly, and they were all applauded for their good presentation. After the presentation, which ended by 2:00pm, we all went back to our different homes. I personally went home and freshened up, ate, read, spent some quality time with my family, and wrote my article.

Thank you.