My OJT Memories Include Bingo Games
Last Spring, I did my on-the-job training (OJT) for my Nursing Assistant class and doing that at a long-term care facility or nursing home made me miss right now the times I got to spend with my fellow students and the residents who were recipients of our care. The old folks at the facility where we did our clinical had regular bingo game sessions with their fellow residents, and sometimes, their family members who would come to visit them and although they don’t play with those free online bingo games (they play with the real one on the table), I still can see so much excitement and fun in them.
For many of you, it is a knowledge that I am an aspiring Registered Nurse. It is a complete shift from the first degree that I have finished which is Mass Communication. That happened when a realization hit me that nursing is my passion. Nursing, which includes working in the hospital assisting the doctors in taking care of the patients, or working at nursing homes or long-term care facilities helping the elderly feel good, is a job that I would dare work from now on until I am able to. There is that different sense of fulfillment when you see your patient or resident feel good right after you’ve took care of him/her.
So yeah, my bingo memories include those times that I spent polishing my Nursing skills at the Portage County Health Department for four weeks. Ever since, I don’t play online games but when there is a means to do so which would make a Las Vegas hop for those games to be played and enjoyed become unnecessary, it sure sounds perfect, don’t you think? I haven’t tried playing bingo with friends and family when we get together, but the other day, when our group here in town has decided that we shall be getting together for holiday dinners here at home, may be indulging in a game would be a good try. If it is going to be a bingo game, then I shall try to dig down and retrieve the skills that I have learned from the elderly during those bingo sessions when I did my OJT with them.
