I was the charge nurse last night and part of my duty is to report to the nurse supervisor on duty and answer to his or her questions during his round.
The first patient in our ward is our resident patient who was long diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. She has been with us since July of this year. It is really ironic that just when I thought that I knew that patient so well, I was stunned to hear the supervisor’s question: What is Parkinson’s? I knew that it is a neurologic generative disease but I was really taken aback by the question.
I knew that it has something to do with the dopamine and the muscle conduction but my brain seemed to lose its coordination.
I must get up where I stumbled.