Hello fellow nurses. Just recently, I'd signed up for an IVT training in one of the private hospitals in Mandaluyong City. I was considering the travel time, fast accommodation and the number of the people I've known who took the training in the same hospital when I was choosing where to go for the training.
Everything went fine at first, there were no long queues for the training and I only waited for a month for the 3-day didactic training. My other schoolmates were telling me that it took them like a quarter of a year before they could start with their training in major institutions in the country. I waited another month for my case completion duty so I took a 5-days-off from work for it.
We're 5 in the group and on day 1 we were able to complete the requirements for medication administration. From day 2 onwards, the number of hospital admissions declined and that made it hard for us to complete the requirements. To my surprise the IV insertion cases were just being distributed in a slip of paper and we were never really allowed to do it ourselves. I was too fortunate though that one staff nurse in the ER asked me to actually perform IV insertion for a patient. The rest of the team didn't really have that chance.
The 5-day case completion schedule passed and we're lacking BT cases. I had gotten one on our 3rd day but my other teammates don't have any BT cases at all. I felt really frustrated because I never thought that it's this hard to get a BT case in that hospital. Perhaps it's just the holidays that made it worse for us and I will be calling the hospital's blood bank over and over again to inquire about any BT requests so could go there if there are any. Next week, I wouldn't have the luxury of time anymore since I will start going to work again with a grave yard shift.
I don't know if you've ever felt this but guys do you think these essential skills enhancement programs they are requiring us to attend to are all worth it when in the end we're only being asked to copy the cases from a slip of paper instead of really doing it? These trainings are all important for safe and competent nursing practice especially to us, New RNs and inexperienced ones only if the true objectives of these trainings will be correctly carried over...I hope someone in the higher ups would read this so they could look at how to protect our interests and improve the way things are being done.
How about you guys, were you very satisfied with the trainings you attended to? How long did it take you to complete it? Can you recommend any institutions where our fellow nurses who have not taken the training yet can go to? Please share your experiences and tell us anything that you have in mind about it. By so doing, our fellow nurses who are yet to attend these trainings will be warned in advance and will be able to avoid any hassles.
