Our interviews with nurses continue. This month, we meet
Miss Ancy Babu, 25 years,
who works as a Quality Nurse in Holy Family Hospital, Okhla, New Delhi.
She has been a nurse for three and a half years.
Here are Ancy’s simple and direct answers to our questions.
- Why did you decide to become a nurse? What attracted you to this profession?
I wanted to do something in my career that is challenging, interesting and makes a difference in peoples’ lives daily. In the nursing profession, you deal with many aspects of patients and enjoy the variety in routine.
- Have you been inspired by the example of any nurse or doctor or other medical professional?
I am inspired by all the nurses and doctors working and putting their efforts to save lives.
- Tell us one or two of your most beautiful and satisfying experiences as a nurse. Its satisfying to know that they feel more at ease after they see the care we provide. At the end of the day, you feel amazing satisfaction and pride.
- Share with us also one or two of your most difficult experiences.
In the initial phase it is difficult to cope with new situations and learning procedures as you are dealing human life.
- Are there times when you feel scared and worried? What makes your frightened and worried?
Ye, there are times when I felt scared. One was: The first time I saw death in the hospital.
- Share with us some of the difficult or painful experiences patients go through?
Losing the one you loved is the most painful experience. Further, many face also a financial crisis
- How do you feel when you see them suffer? What do you do for them then?
I love counseling them and being part of their sorrow.
- At other times, your heart must have been touched to see the way some people suffer sickness and pain without complaining, or even face death peacefully. Any such experience comes to your mind? If so, tell us in a few words.
My own sister is a heart patient. She has congenital heart disease. More than her, my mother is the one who is suffering a lot, seeing her in pain. Every time, this comes to my mind.
- There must many beautiful moments when the patients and their families tell you of their gratitude, or even cry as they thank you. Can you share one or two such experiences?
Not once or twice, but many experiences where elder ones blessed me. So, too, I got many marriage proposals.
- What do people in general and our Indian society need to understand about the work and difficulties of nurses? How can they show their appreciation better?
Nurses deserve more respect. There should be greater empowerment. Make the society know that it is a very difficult area of work.
- What attracts Indian nurses to work abroad, besides the higher salary?
Quality of life, the respect they get, the autonomy to take decisions.
- There are patients and families who say beautiful things about the service of the nurses, especially during these days of Covid. Can you tell us one or two nice things which you have heard them say about nurses?
Example: “These are Angels looking after us like their parents.”
- Many of you pray for your patients, just as you pray for yourself and your families. Have you had any touching experience of praying for patients and seeing the results?
Same in the case of my sister. Only because of prayers and a miracle she is alive. Now she is leading a beautiful family life.
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