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It is definitely a gloomy and it-might-rain-later Tuesday today but still, happy morning on a Tuesday to all of us from this side of the earth. My duty yesterday was good: my students will be the first group to present their case on oncology nursing, so I expected they will have their 4-day duty without any hitches. Since the preventive isolation ward in medical ward is under renovation, all cancer-stricken patients are confined at the third floor. So I and the 8 level 4 nursing students went up to the third floor where they assessed a 41-year old female with breast cancer, post-radical mastectomy ®. I was also surprised because there was only 1 staff nurse on duty in the whole 40 patients at the third floor. (The hall is just a makeshift ward). The staff nurse was a graduate of the college of nursing where I am employed. I asked Miss K if she can handle the 40 patients; she said YES but until 10PM, she has not yet taken her dinner. If possible, I do not like to go to the third floor; I just thought we should have our duty there because the preventive isolation ward is there, and there are 140 patients at the medical ward, ground floor. Besides, the room where we put our things is so totally disarranged, whereas we can even sit down with chairs and 2 tables at the third floor. Dinner time, I just let my students buy me food, and we all ate our meals there at the third floor, with the heavy rains pouring. Later, I was notified that we won’t have duty next week, because it will be the students’ preliminary examination.