Fourth Week

January 2-3, 2013

     

After the New Year celebration, the next day was a bit boring for me, because only the inpatients are coming to our station. I miss the outpatients that were very abrupt in settling their accounts.
I was not able to go to the office last January 4 due to a family emergency.

Third week

December 26-28 2012

      After Christmas, the next day, 26th of December and here I go again, Mam Lou required us to come to the office early because we have lots of things to do. There were lots of ECG tracing from December 21 to 25 that is why I have to cut them all and paste it in the electrocardiogram report. While doing that, I have to give order of payments on the patients taking ECG and 2D echo with Doppler  For the first time, Mam Olive called me to help her to fill up the electrocardiographic sheet, because she was having trouble with an old patient.

Second week

December 17-21, 2012

     

      Days pass by and many people are worrying about the “The End of the World” on December 21, while our job at heart station has no ending. The people that are requesting for ECG were unstoppable, even if its the Christmas time is near, people come and go. Every day at the office is such a great experience, just like now mam Lou thought me how to encode all the ECG results that has been read by Dr. Panlilio. She thought me on how to use the shortcuts for sinuses and rhythm of the heart and she told me that I must be careful on handling results because the health of the patient is at stake here. All of the staffs of the heart station are very heartwarming and very accommodating and that is why I love here.

First week

December 12-14, 2012

       

         My first week as a trainee at East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC) was such an unexpected experience. What I have experienced at Jose N. Rodriguez Memorial Medical Hospital (JNRMMH) last summer was way too far from what I am having right now at EAMC.

       After the orientation, she assigned me at the heart station where electrocardiogram (ECG) and 2D echocardiogram is taken. I met Ms. Olive, Ms. Lunaria, Mr. Garcia, Mr. Morales, and Ms. Nadado. They are the staff of the heart station. From there, they thought me a lot of things specially on ECG, on how to process the papers for 2D echo, how to give order of payment for the patients, how to file the results of ECG and 2D echo, and how to release the results. At first, it was a surprised because I do not know about what I am going to do, but as the days go by, I am starting to love my job.