T h e N O T E & T h e B L A C K T E A
I received this simple token from my junior nurse the other day that made me happy as her senior and mentor. Working in the health care system seems so impossible to never look out for some glitches like work pressure, endless complaints, and horrible duty schedule, especially if you’re a nurse. Well, being a nurse for four years was a tough experience already, but I still considered myself as a beginner. This note had given me an impression that I am more of a mentor now. I should be proud of this. However, I was thinking about writing my thoughts about this realization. One of my research proposals for my thesis was about nurse bullying. It had pushed me to include this selection to find some comparative study on the hospital violence among nurses in public and private institution. My personal experiences had given me enough reasons to think about it today. Did I experience nurse bullying? Or am I the bully already? Some people I’ve known in my profession would rath...