With a smiling face holding the tray, Nurse Mole facing one of the biggest stressors for nurses that are working in the hospital.
It is not new or impossible to solve but it triggers nurses around the world.
"What are you going to do?" a buffed man asking as he cross his arms, threatening a seemingly small chick with a tray.
The chick nurse thought 'This is one of those relatives, relax Nurse Mole, you've handled some of these cases before. All you have to do is tell them the purpose'
"Sir, I'm just going to put a urine catheter to the patient so she can pee easily." The man looked at him suspiciously.
He back up a bit and watch in a distance how a nurse would deal with his daughter.
"Are you Ms. Tina Ajurnakalan?" Mole asked to a patient who quietly sitting on the bed. "Yes" she said politely.
The nurse turns "Sir will it be ok for us to have this room?" He asked for privacy knowing that this procedure might cause the patient to be anxious.
The father looked at his daughter worried.
She replied by nodding and so he left them in the room.
When they finally had some privacy, Mole asked if she'll be alright doing the procedure as a male nurse.
"Ma'am may I ask if it's ok for me to do the procedure? Currently we have short staffs and so most of our female nurses are occupied already. I don't want you ma'am to be anxious of me."
He was clearly building a rapport to the patient.
The girl unconsciously hiding her hands under the bed blanket being worried of her procedure. "It's ok, I understand." She said
Mole knowing full well of her feelings, he positioned the patient comfortably and exposing the area only to be assess.
He cleansed the area and proceeded with Urine catheterization.
After a quick move, he congratulate the anxious girl for cooperation. "Thank you nurse, It's my first time having this and I don't feel a slightest pain." She thankfully said.
The nurse smiled and left the patient with his father. The nurse discard the disposal materials that he used then recorded everything that he did with the patient.
After that, he jump to the next patient. This time, he was about to administer a medicine for a GYM instructor male patient who was bitten by a stray dog.
When he prepared the medicine and the syringe in front of the patient, the patient anxiously talkative.
"Yo-you know, I-I went hi-hiking last week with my girlfriend and , and I fell to some bu-bushes I still have some br-bruises-"
"Ok sir, don't move." Mole prepared a cotton ball and sterile the area at the deltoid. "Wha-what is that?" he said. He avoided the cotton ball from touching him.
"Sir, I'm just cleaning the area, this is just a cotton ball with an alcohol." The man looked at Mole's hand.
He can't take off his eyes from his shoulder. "Sir don't look, I'm going to inject this now." The nurse said.
The giant bulky man turn his head away the nurse. He felt that Mole was softly squishing his shoulder.
"Done sir" then Mole covered the injected area with a band aid.
The bulky man looked and saw that it was done. "Wait did you injected it already?" he asked.
Mole showed him an empty syringe proving that it was already administered.
After he was done with his patient, he jump on to the next.
The next patient is an elderly person. The patient and the family refuses to leave the room during the procedure and so Nurse Mole had no choice but to conduct the procedure with the relatives.
He was about to collect some blood sample from the patient when one of the relatives halted him. "Wait nurse" the relative took out her phone and video recorded the nurse.
"My niece is a nurse in the US"
"I have an Aunt who worked as Nurse Instructor here."
"We also have our uncle who is a lawyer."
The relatives pressured Mole. Unbothered, he continued the procedure and took an ample amount of blood from their grandmother.
During the procedure, they were so focused to Mole that every movement is being observed.
"Done!" he said. He left the family successfully but their eyes tailed him as he exit the door.
He went to the laboratory and submit the sample taken. He also told the family that they should wait for the result to release.
He worked hard day by day with long patience to different types of people that he encountered.
Sometimes he have an emotional patient, stubborn patient, Over reacting patient, talkative patient, very quiet patient and etc. but he endured everything because he understood the feeling of being a patient and a relative. Worried sick, thinking if there's hope.
Nurse Mole went to his desk, preparing things for endorsement. He saw a chocolate bar on his desk with a note, a flower with a note and a few paper bags with a note.
Some of the nurses who saw his desk area thinking that someone was hitting on him. Mole looked at each note and he noticed that it is from different people.
The note with the chocolate bar says "Thank you for the day" . He recognized the writing that it was the same as before.
The person who gave him the chocolate bar and the note.
Meanwhile, the note on the flower says "Let's have a coffee date ok? Dr. Phun" with a heart drawn everywhere.
Lastly, the paper bags with a note says "Can you please consider it? Mr. Maximillian"
The paper bags were filled with luxurious cologne, scented soaps and even candles. Mole put the paper bags below his desk beside his feet. Then, he hid the chocolate bar inside his bag.
The notes were collectively hidden on his desk. He finishes as fast but prudently the papers and other documents for the endorsement.
After doing so, he fixed the area of his desk. He took a small jar and filled it in with water. He cut off the stem from the flowers to fit in the jar. He put it close to the lifeless window in their office.
The next shift came and he endorsed the patients with coherence. The nurse went out the hospital wondering of a mysterious person who gave him the chocolate bar. He was thinking of a probability that it was one of his co nurses in the office.
A familiar guy waved at Mole. He went near to that person holding the paper bags. "How was your day dear nurse?" enthusiastically greeted.
Nurse Mole knowing full well of the person in front of him. "Oh look! The dog of the Maximillians who barks loud at the hallway."
He teased, intentionally provoking the assistant of Tuxedo.
The guy was pissed but resisting out of obedience. "Did you like the gifts? You really need those." Bickering, Mole handed the paper bags to him. He was confused of the nurse's doing.
"Tell your master that I don't need these"
"Why? It's good for you!" sarcastically provoking the nurse.
"No~ I'm allergic to strong scents and I don't take bribes."
Pissed, he left the paper bags and went home.
The next day after endorsement, Mole wrote down on a memo pad saying "Thank you, for the chocolate bars and I'm just doing my job." It was morning and few nurses was there.
He left it on his desk, hoping for a reply. After his day, he saw again things on his desk. There's 2 chocolate bars with a note, another flower with a note and lastly a gift box with a note.
The note in the box was written "I'm sorry I didn't know, but please do accept this bag.This is not a bribe but a simple gift"
He tore down the wrapper and saw a backpack that is suitable for him as a nurse. He can store his laptop as well.
The next note that was with the flowers but different type compare from the other, written "Please visit me, I kind a feel lonely. You promised me for a coffee date. Dr. Phun" hearts are drawn everywhere.
"What's his problem? People might think that he was hitting me." Mole said. The last note is what he is excited for.
"Thank you for your hard work Nurse Mole, Hope for more opportunity to come in your life." With simple thanks giving , Nurse Mole was touched. He's really confused whether it is from a co worker or from a patient.
After endorsement, he did it again with the flowers. He placed it next to the first flowers that Dr. Phun gave.
Before he left the hospital, he went to visit his frenemy Dr. Phun. "Finally!! You visited me Nurse Mole!" he hugged the nurse tightly but the nurse was pushing him away.
"I don't like hugs"
"What's with the bitterness? I'm just happy seeing you"
"Before I go home thank you for the flowers but please stop. People might misunderstood us."
"that?"
"that you are hitting me!"
"am I not?"
Mole glared at him and the doctor was just teasing him.
"Alright , I'm just kidding. So what about our coffee date?"
"Not today doc, we are short staff right now and we have a lot of patient being admitted. Someone might ate some noodles."
"what's with the noodles?"
"It's a Filipino thing" the nurse explained.
"But you've promised"
"Just not today, I should go now."
Mole and Dr. Phun had a farewell. As Mole was about to exit the hospital, once again he bump in to Tuxedo's assistant.
"Would you look at that!" the assistant said when he saw the nurse holding the unwrapped gift. "Tell your owner to not send any gifts anymore. I'll accept this one. So he should hold his peace."
He went away without another word. The next morning, Mole left another note on his desk saying "Thank you for the chocolate bars but can you please stop sending me this. I appreciate your acknowledgement of my work so please stop."
At the end of his work, there was a pudding with a note and another flowers with a note. The note from the flowers saying "I'll keep on sending you flowers to remind you of our coffee date. Dr. Phun" winked emoji drawing.
Another note was a reply "Why? You don't like the chocolate bars that I gave you? Then please accept this. I hope you like it."
~ END OF CHAPTER