Ai Wei’s Blogs

I have discovered my ability of invisibility.
I speak, and no one listens. They carry on engrossed in their meaningful conversations about the newest facial products, or cause and effect of tight fit pants and panty lines.
Its as though the wind swept my words into a far away land where no one can hear.
Should I use my invisibility to fight crime, or aid evil…

One of the first jobs that come to mind when you think of healthcare. Nurses. Sometimes referred to as Angels in white.

Always there attending to patients’ needs, looking out for them, doing what they can to make the patients as comfortable as possible.

But did you know, that there are many career tracks available as a nurse?

For example, you can manage an entire ward and the nurses as a Nurse Manager, a clinical nurse if you prefer to take care of patients, go into a specialised area such as surgery, or even a nurse educator if 2 of your passions, nursing, and teaching.

We met a nurse educator at SGH, who brought us thru the entire route of being a nurse educator.

As you could tell from how we were laughing away, either the career sounds extremely fun, or I made a really funny joke. I don’t think it’s the latter.

Then we got to meet a nurse manager at NUH as well.

If you had been interested in any of the jobs I had mentioned so far, or even find out more career opportunities, go to www.healthcareers.sg

Change a life today.

I know! An occupational therapist! So again, you may ask… just what is an occupational therapist?

Occupational therapists (OTs) actively engage people in purposeful activities to promote, regain or maintain health and wellbeing, using occupations as therapy and enabling individuals to do occupations. They work with children and adults of all ages, whose difficulties may be congenital or the result of an accident, illness, ageing or lifestyle.

The OT assesses patients’ or clients’ physical, mental and/or social challenges and devises treatment programmes to increase their ability to tackle their difficulties independently. Treatment programmes vary greatly according to individual needs and may involve environmental modifications. OTs review treatment periodically, evaluate progress and modify the treatment as appropriate.

They have different kind of equipments that helps a patient to regain their mobility, or a movement as simple as buttoning up or pouring themselves a glass of water. We may take it for granted that we are able to do this. So much so that we don’t even give it a second thought when we do it.

Be a part of people’s lives, change their lives.

Of course, we had a go at the equipments available as well.

This is the part where they soften the plastic that are used as casts.

That’s us listening intently to the OT that were bringing us around.

Perhaps a physiotherapist? And what exactly do they do?

Physiotherapists treat patients with physical difficulties resulting from illness, injury, disability or ageing. They treat people of all ages including children, the elderly, stroke patients and people with sports injuries.

Physiotherapists work with patients to identify and improve their movement and function. They help promote their patients’ health and wellbeing, and assist the rehabilitation process by developing and restoring body systems.

Physiotherapists work in a range of settings, including hospitals, health centres, industry, private practice and sports clubs. They treat a wide variety of conditions, such as injuries and fractures (including sports injuries), orthopaedics and joints, strokes, post surgical rehabilitation, intensive care or terminal illness, abdominal conditions, obstetrics and gynaecology, chest conditions, posture and movement, neurological conditions, learning difficulties and mental illness.

It is an extremely rewarding job when you see own own patient being able to regain their movement and function as per before.

And of course, since we were there, how could we give up a chance for a ‘free’ session? Technically only Vernon…  The rest just looked on.

Then I got to check out some of their equipments. And of course, posed with them ball-ys.

Vernon found a machine that rocks his boat.