accolade...ME o_O??

o_O?? orhh.... i got an accolade pin on a board, for public viewing. err...but wats an accolade leh? haha... i just checked the dictionary online it said...

4 dictionary results for: accolade
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ac⋅co⋅lade   /ˈækəˌleɪd, -ˌlɑd; ˌækəˈleɪd, -ˈlɑd/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ak-uh-leyd, -lahd; ak-uh-leyd, -lahd] Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun
1.any award, honor, or laudatory notice: The play received accolades from the press.
2.a light touch on the shoulder with the flat side of the sword or formerly by an embrace, done in the ceremony of conferring knighthood.
3.the ceremony itself.
4.Music. a brace joining several staves.
5.Architecture.
a. an archivolt or hood molding having more or less the form of an ogee arch.
b. a decoration having more or less the form of an ogee arch, cut into a lintel or flat arch.
Origin: 1615–25; <>-ade 1 ), n. use of fem. ptp. of a(c)coler, OF v. deriv. of col neck (see collar ) with a- a- 5
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wow.... making it sound like i am a knight or something. haha... someone commented that another co-worker along with me had nursed her mom in her final journey making it a relatively painless and comfortable one. wow... let me see... i hardly pack cases so i really can't figure out who was the person was, plus the other person mentioned was in a totally different team with me. she was the front room girl and me the back room so... how would it be that we had nursed the same patient!??! i am puzzled.


the other more puzzling thing is... why didn't the bosses tell us that? normally the bosses will photocopy such things and then track back who was the patient, then... they will tell us that so and so had wrote such and such about us. the last letter i got from a patient relative was not with this co-worker but another one so.... o_O?? who...who....who??? tomorrow i must make it a point to bug my boss about that.


mental note: this entry is too cheer-y, dampen it i would... hahaha..


i am really glad that patients and their relatives see the effort we put in to make them comfortable in a rather strange and threatening environment. (imagine always being woken up in the middle of your sleep to get your blood pressure taken and kena blood taking every so often). it can be really frustrating to be nursing people who treat nurses like dirt and worst still MAID... =(


we are a nation filled with expectation. we expect the bus and mrt to be on time. we expect our kids to do well in school (if not it must be the teacher's fault for taking mc all the time!). we expect our government to filter out everything and anything bad. and because of all these expectation, sometimes its really terrible to work in our setting. 13 patients (not amounting to their relatives and friends) facing 1 or 2 nurses, they request we (try) to meet their expectation in time but when we aren't quite up to their expectation they will get upset and stuff. turn the table around... its 1 or 2 nurses dealing with 13 individuals! is that an easy task? sigh... because of my personality plus the 'training' at the workplace i realised grace is very important. treat others with grace, even if its really tough to...try!!!!


i salute my da-jie for being a teacher! 30+ underage kids screaming in a classroom + handing their parents - all filled with high expectation for everyone of their precious baby... wow.... how stress can it be! thank God i am not a teacher... if not, no amount of teacher's day bribe ops... i meant gifts will make me cheerful and glad. =)


bottomline....treat NURSES well!! and....WORLD PEACE! hahaha.... =P