【Essay on Hospital Celebration】 Representative of the 1990s admission: Lin Juan, head nurse of ICU (Sandun Branch)

I'm glad I made my choice

In 1991, I was assigned to work at Zhejiang Hospital after graduating from Wenzhou Health School. At that time, there were few people and cars on Lingyin Road, except for the No. 7 bus, and occasionally I could see a few bicycles riding on the road. The hospital environment was very quiet, the building was hidden in the forest, the outpatient building was a low building in the 70s and 80s style, simple and neat, and there was a big Lohan pine in front of the door. I started my nursing career in the emergency room of the outpatient building. The class of colleagues who came to Hangzhou from abroad lived in a group dormitory, which has now been transformed into Building 5. They ate in the hospital cafeteria, and communication was very backward, no cell phones, and they relied on letters when they were homesick. At that time, the biggest leisure after work is to walk with roommates to 3 miles away from Zhejiang University to store small stores.

Time flies quickly, and the beautiful and simple years have gone unnoticed, and the twenty-eight years of nursing have been uncomplaining.

Twenty-eight years ago, I joined the family of Zhejiang Hospital in ignorance, just started to engage in the nursing profession in the face of work overwhelmed, step by step persistence, a little progress. In 1999, I joined the Department of Intensive Care Medicine and experienced and witnessed the gradual development and growth of the Department of Intensive Care Medicine. At that time, Secretary Yan Jing was the head of the department and Xu Ying was the head nurse. Because there were many patients and few medical staff, doctors were on call 24 hours a day, and nurses were on night shift for several months. There are no slogans or complaints, because the work and the patients need it, so we all devote ourselves to it.

The career of a nurse, especially a nurse in the intensive care unit, is rich in physical hardship, tension at work, the rush to save every second, the frustration of a patient's death, and emotional experience. But when the medical staff works together to save a life from death, the sense of accomplishment makes all the efforts worthwhile. We deal with patients and their families of different ages, genders and professions every day, and when the patients are dying, the human feelings and warmth, some of them will make me sad, but more of them make me feel warm and touched.

I am glad that my choice allows me to feel life so much, so that I can learn to love and respect life.