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Manuel and moi, during the TPN seminar

As registered nurses, we have to earn continuing professional education units required by our profession. That’s 60 units for three years, or 20 units a year. And I think this ought to be a must. Oh well, I am not quite sure as I haven’t known any case in which a registered nurse who had not complied with this was de-licensed or what. Or maybe I may have just been unaware. Whatever!

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Nurses care

The Oath Taking Ceremony for Region XI and XII’s new nurses took place last March 26, 2008 at the Cap Auditorium in Davao City. And as one of the new registered nurses, of course I needed to be there.

I didn’t know whether it was our oath taking or theirs, the speakers and the visitors. What I mean is that a large percentage of the time we spent in the ceremony was all about the dignitaries’ speeches of all sorts: inspiring, forgettable, and some boring. It’s as if all in the audience would listen to their every word. For me, time is always precious, and they wasted it that time. I lost golds that I could have gotten (time is gold, right?).

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