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After attending 2 HQ trainings, there are some things which are very noticeable...

The difference between :

Ambulance and Nursing
It is very true what they say about girls using more of their brain to multi-task while guys can only concentrate on one thing at a time. Two weeks ago during lunch, my team sat quietly eating, with the silence only broken by myself asking what was the difference between shui jiaos and yun tuns (both different types of dumpling). On the other hand, the nursings talked, ate, laughed at the same time, much to the agitation of James who was in a rush to leave... heheh...

Home nursing and TOC:
I had the privilege to witness home nursing in action a few days back, a rare occurance given that I'm an ambulance... The only thing I could remember is "place cold compress at the patient [not casualty]'s neck, axillia and groin." Incidentally, when I asked my team if they could remember their home nursing, what they could remember was that something had to placed at the casualty's groin and not much else.

Home nursing tickled me a lot cos its when you see the nursings expressing their sorta "feminine" side, as Bixia expressed... which actually is rarely seen in SJ situations, since the nursings are usually being as resilient as the guys....

But what triggered my laughing fit was the STARK CONTRAST between home nursing and TOC (Transportation of Casualty, to non-SJers). TOC starts as such:

Wei Lun: Squad, Keluar Baris!
Xuan Cheng: Turn check *bang* check up check down check 1, 2, 3 *bang*
Wei Lun: No. 2 and 4 open stretcher, No. 3 follow me, move!
All of us: Yes No. 1!!!

whereupon there is a flurry of controlled panic as we go for the stretchers and casualty... its all speed speed speed, stability and strength (typical male -_-'")... Oh, and a little safety thrown in too...

On the other hand, home nursing is all skill and EQ... it starts as such:

No. 1: Team gather

and all the members surround the patient and, in effect, go "Hello hello hello, we are your home nurses for today to entertain you" yadayada... While TOC is flashy but straightforward, I take my hat off to the nursings for Home Nursing is probably one of the most complicated procedures (to an ignoramus like myself), preparing trolleys, talking to patients etc... There's so much to memorise its probably the equivalent of Bio among the 3 sciences... the simplicity of TOC likens it to Physics.... there is a fixed formula (its always 3-man carrier)... you just have to adapt your moves to the situation...

But then again, thats why Home Nursing has 150 marks while TOC has only 50... If TOC and footdrill were more important, we wouldn't have missed 3rd place in the N-comp by 0.4 marks 2 years back =D

It was fun learning about wound dressing etc though....

Well, thats it for now... hmm its late... pah...

By the way... the mark from Maurice's abortive flick on my arm is still there after almost a week... I think I'm permanently scarred or something...