Kaban ni D_BystandeR: SINUKLIAY SA HUNAHUNA

D_BystandeR:

What could have been a simple case where the parents were earlier reported to be agreeable even if the nurse will only offer an apology now turns out to be the biggest issue where almost any highly placed government officials and practitioners in the city have now joined hands and want the "scalp" of the lady nurse involved in this brouhaha. Had the nurse been practical and honest enough to admit her mistake, the simple solution would have been only an "apology." Now it's getting more complicated as Mayor Mike Rama wants no simple solution to the case but asked for the dismissal of the nurse from the service if proven true. I don't think Dr. Raida Varona, CPMH medical director, has the power in her hands to put the brakes now so nobody from the outside can touch the case. She was reported to have said that there is no need for DOH 7 to conduct a separate investigation as the case, she said, is an internal matter. Varona failed to grasp the enormity of the case with which it has now assumed to become an unmanageable problem in which Varona's office can no longer control. If only they gave special priority to this case before it went out of hand, only a simple form of "apology" from the nurse would have been sufficed.

veezdac: (to D_BystandeR)

An apology is only for ordinary individual that commits mistakes like for example a yaya. But she's a licensed nurse for Christ sake! I don't know, maybe you're not a parent yet.

D_BystandeR: (to veezdac)

I agree with you that, in a similar case, apology is enough if the one involved is only a "yaya" or a simple and unschooled nanny or anybody else who does not have the related education dedicated to "child care" not like the nurses who are expected to know the intricacy of child care. But if only you tried to religiously review the earlier news accounts relative to this particular case, it is not me who advanced or amplified the possibility of granting "forgiveness" if only the nurse was honest enough to readily admit her mistakes and offered corresponding apology, but the parents of the 5-day-old infant. Probably influenced by our commonly adopted norms and tradition as a forgiving kind  of human beings, especially for us Cebuanos, it is the parents earlier idea to just simply accept an honest apology from the nurse. But for me, it would be entirely different because I am very particular that my children were given the necessary care they deserved and the respect they expected to receive from the attendant nurse, because to tell you frankly, I have already 6 grown up children, and thanks be to God, they  are now, modesty aside, all professionals! But it appeared the nurse, from her reported early reaction was adamant as she even told the mother to pull it out herself if she didn't like it. But the mother who hesitated and found it difficult to detach the scotch tape from the mouth of her son herself on account of the delicate skin of her infant son, asked the nurse to detach it herself, and to which the nurse complied.