Breathe No More

I’m still overwhelmed about the fact that Mr. Frances Greg Y. Bordon, RN, one of the critiques during our Sugar Coated Crisis Grand Case Presentation last Oct. 13, commended the Nursing Care Plan.

“Very good NCP,” he said.

I smiled upon hearing those words.

It felt like all the sleepless nights working on the nursing process, (mostly on the Physical Assessment, NCP, and final organization of all the parts plus the PowerPoint presentation) really paid off. I was so overwhelmed. Because I made that NCP. I made that care plan for ineffective renal and peripheral tissue perfusion r/t decreased hemoglobin concentration in the blood along with Tep who provided a lot of help in the rationales and evaluations, and Floi & Martin who also made the psychosocial NCPs. To think, it was Sir Bordon, the highly intellectual, super awesome clinical instructor who said it was a good NCP, with good interventions and some corrections/suggestions for improvement.

Thank God!

And big thanks + congratulations to all the people who helped make the grand case presentation a success. RLE Group 5 section C, thank you for performing a thorough physical assessment and we apologize that our assessments weren’t thorough enough. There were shortcomings but it was a good PA nonetheless. At least the stuff they critiqued about were some other things that should be included and a little of what should not be there. RLE Group 5 section D, Jip, In, Lov, Tim, Shyn, Yash, Tep, thank you since it was good enough that we have written the physical assessment in a way that presents ideas taken from Sir Bordon’s corrections. Aja! Drug study people, Neil, Paolo, Shaila, Jen and group mates, very good drug studies! Thanks to Johrley, Julyne & Becky for all their hardwork on the client’s history. Carl, Vincent, Cindy, Dom, Jan Brian, great job on the schematic diagram! According to Sir Villanueva, it was a “very good pathophysiology, because they discussed not only DM and DM nephropathy but also its other complications.” Yeah! 3C and 3D, job well done!

Thank you so much Sir Villanueva! Tanging kakampi ever! We love Sir V!

I’m also thanking all the clinical instructors for the corrections and knowledge they imparted, and for giving us a good grade. It does show that we’ve improved since our first grand case presentation. But of course, there’s still a lot of room for improvement.

Of course, a lot of my thank you’s still go to Mr. Bordon. I’ve learned so much from him, not only from this grand case presentation but also from his lectures and from the time spent with him during our RLE in the Pediatric Ward.

Wow, I actually felt so kilig when I said “Thank you, Sir,” after he gave his corrections on the problem list I presented (nagpresent lang ko, hehe!), and he replied with a heartwarming “You’re welcome.” How incredibly cute that two words from him made me smile as I walked away from the platform.

That was the kilig moment. And there was more, like when he called out “Miss Sentina” instructing me to either flash my PowerPoint or zoom in the Word document containing the NCP. (I was the computer operator that day.) Bwisit ah! Why do those little things make me go kilig? Daw langka ko ah! Something’s totally wrong with me. Hahaha! But can I help it if I really just like him a lot? He is so smart and so skilled and he inspires me to be a good nurse.