.Tuesday, August 14, 2012 ' 5:09 PM Y
Hello bloggie..
It’s been so long since I blogged! While waiting for my duno-if-it-is-still happening meeting, and in the not-so-feel-like-using-my-brain-mood, let me do some updates.
It’s been 2 months 10 days in this new job – Service Planning for Sengkang Hospitals. This is seriously an exciting job! In short, it’s a position where you plan out all the services in the hospitals, from clinical services to patient experiences to model of care to patient flow etc. In my opinion, a great place to learn everything about hospital operations and functions all in one project.
Thus far in this job, I have…
1. Shifted to a new off-site office (hence lots of traveling and shuttling between places for meetings, carrying my laptop and wander all around SGH to find hot desking spaces..)
2. Peeped into a few gruesome surgery (one of which the guy on the OT table was totally burnt, resulted in his skin looking like char siew.. with the doctor stapling back patches of skin)
3. Visited lots and lots of Operating Theatres, gowning up and down like a surgeon
4. Learning trips to warehouse, logistic companies, hospitals… warship visit in progress
5. A pending Perth learning trip (50% chance of going)
6. Viewing a live cataract removal surgery
7. Many many more exciting things…..
Seriously, I SIMPLY LOVE THIS JOB! This job was the result of 6 months of very specific job hunt and lots of prayers for confirmation. Cut the story short, I felt God speaking very vividly for me to go back to healthcare, so tadang! Here I am..
I would say my colleagues and those clinical leaders I came across with are very humble people. Working with them is just like working with giants of faith, fathers of the healthcare builders. Many of them have rich experiences when it comes to building hospitals locally and internationally. I am always humbled to be at those meetings where I get to meet people/hear stories about how a certain man/woman who have foresight for the Singapore healthcare x years back, which resulted in today’s well-equipped facilities. But also, heard stories about how the healthcare systems fail to provide care, horror stories about how operation can go wrong etc..
This would be a 5 year long project before the physical hospital building actualised. Till then, I hope I would be able to jot down all the learning pointers and share more here.
