Patients often ask, “When is Henny on duty,” and proceed to tell us
how amazing her care has been for them. As a parting gift Henny
penned ‘Angels in Scrubs’ and we share this with you in Checkup.
Angels in Scrubs
[A Nurse will always give you hope –
They’re Angels with a stethoscope]
We greet you at the start, of every shift we do,
All ethnicities, our focus is on you.
We’ll give a friendly smile and call you by your name,
To do our very best for you – this is our total aim.
You may be feeling lonely, have a sense of dread or fear,
But we’ll be there beside you – a loving touch, a listening ear.
We will make things happen, because your health is our concern,
We will be your advocate, with the skills that we have learned.
Sometimes we get tired – the demands on us are great,
Medications and injections – IV’s that just can’t wait.
Admissions and discharges, doctors’ orders to translate,
There’s enemas and catheters and surgery preps await.
Parting poet
By Lynn Hema, APU Clinical Nurse Manager.
Recently the Assessment Planning Unit (APU)
team said farewell to Health Care Assistant
Henny Edkins, who has moved to Australia
with her family.
Henny has many talents and APU has been privileged to receive
gifts including many poems that she has penned about working at
the hospital. Checkup readers may recall her ‘Ode to APU’ which
featured in the February 2018 issue. Henny will be missed not just
in the Assessment Planning Unit but throughout the entire hospital.
Student nurse
thrives in APU
As a token of her appreciation, student nurse
Melanie Kennedy recently baked a cake for her
Preceptor (assigned teacher) Nurse Jobu John
Koshy (pictured right) and the APU team.
The third year nursing student who was on placement within
APU says she couldn’t have asked for a better preceptor. She
described Jobu as patient and supportive and this made her feel
safe and competent in her practice and more confident as time
progressed.
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A Nurse is so much more than people often know,
We meet you at the worst of times, when you are feeling low.
We hold your hand and dry your tears and
try to ease your pain,
And with patient after patient, we do
it all again.
There is no better calling than to be
a caring Nurse,
Reaching out to help another, and
putting their needs first.
You may forget just what we did, as
you go through your ordeal,
But most important, you will know, just
how we made you feel.
So every day we wear our scrubs and
nurse you hour by hour,
Knowing we will touch a life – or
yours may, in turn, touch ours.
Henny Edkins
July, 2018