Zang Caesar attends a lousy TPN seminar

26 Apr, 2008

Zang Caesar attends a lousy TPN seminar

Posted by: Zang Caesar In: Nursing/Allied Services

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!

My former classmate informed us about a seminar about Total Parenteral Nutrition in Davao Medical Center, and that it would credit us 8 continuing professional education units. And so with no hesitations I signed up, woke up early that seminar day to travel from my city, Tagum, to Davao City. That’s just an hour drive if without heavy traffic.

Turned out, it was a bad seminar, I daresay. It started late, and before the seminar proper began, we were presented with a video as to how to prepare parenteral tubings and whatnots, with an audio that was oh so choppy you wouldn’t understand what it was talking unless you stick your ears to the very sluggish playback.

So then came the speaker after that, well, not-so-helpful video. And we thought the speaker would be of any help, but unfortunately, it was more like a reading seminar: he reads most of what he taught us. Argh, that sucks, really!

Well anyway, what we came there for was to get the certificate anyway. Haha… And I got it. 12 units more to comply for this year, folks! By the way, the fee was 300 pesos. Hmm… not bad. And contrary to my expectation that I can take a good photo of the seminar so I can blog about it, the photo above is the only picture I had taken by then. There was not a backdrop in the hall to be photoed, nor I was eager to give the speaker while lecturing a shot. It wasn’t worth it!