Todos los Santos...

It's Undas or Todos los Santos aka, All Souls Day.. yes, aside from Halloween we celebrate All Souls Day and All Saints day in the Philippines.  It's been a tradition for us to go to our home/provinces during this days, to visit the graves of our love ones.. spent a night or just to offer a light or candle and flowers in the cemetery., some of the people will be camping out for two days with family and friends...

Earlier we went to Rolling Hills Memorial Park and to Bacolod Memorial to visit the grave of my grandparents and some of my siblings/relatives. We offered flowers and light a candle... we thought we will stuck in traffic but then its good  enforcers are good to manage the traffic. :) we ended up early as 11AM we directly went home and eat valenciana my auntie prepared.. also sticky foods must be prepared on this day btw.. :)

so,this is how we celebrate Halloween or Nov 1st and 2nd.. spending more time with family, either its here on earth or long gone... oh.. i kinda miss my grandparents... :((

Trick or Treat!!!!

Happy Halloween!

xoxo,jas

IVT Training

Who among you here afraid of blood or needles, i mean injection needles... well, a warning if u are... coz ill be talking about my IVT training last Friday to Sunday session.

Its a priviledge to join the 3 days IVT training in the hospital since there are lot of people been trying to be listed in the list... It started early 7am on that day.. i know, really early right??? ugh.. but its ok.. i can manage. It was a good timing too that my friend/classmate in college is scheduled on that day.. so in 3 days we are partner in crime till the one on one IV insertion~! good that we hit the right vein in just 1 take.. but i pity him a bit coz i injured his hand hard...

The training is like going back during my review days.. gosh, it was sooo boring.. a bit.. i tend to close my eyes from time to time... tyring to scribble/sketch in my notes,just want to entertain myself while the lecture is on.. We got to learn different things, from the history till the insertion of the needle to veins...
There's pretest and post-test too.. didnt do well in pretest.. forgot some nursing terms we had.. plus the location of the veins, my oh my! but on the post test, i did well i think, except for the calculations. The drug calculations, im doomed.. kk^^ ugh, i really hate math..

The most doom-able is the time when we need to memorized or familiarized the step and procedure during the demonstration.. We are tasked to familiarized the 13 procedure, each procedure consist more or less 20 steps... so that means we need to verbalize 260 steps..... if we mention the correct step, each preceptor(teacher) will check that step... so far i did well, i think, coz i only got 4 wrongs all in all.. but unlike to my friends, they got only 1 mistake.. they are better... and the preceptors also are understanding u know, they tend to help us if we forgot some tiny bit of the step.. ^^

After the return demonstration we had, its the giving of the certificate... its like giving an award or something.. kk^^ we are now an IV Therapist... hehehe.. but before that we need to complete the cases first inorder to volunteer in hospitals... Im planning to volunteer at that hospital... so i hope everything will turn out good.. i am scheduled to complete my cases this coming 13-14, AM shift...

i guess, this is it for now... i know its kinda boring blog today.. hehehe.. ill blog another one later! soo see yah later bloggies~!!!

ps. didnt get pics from the training room coz i didnt bother to bring my cam.. :) kk^^

au revoir!

xoxo,jas