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Orientation Narrative

The document provides an orientation summary for Level 3 student nurses at the Bataan Peninsula State University College of Nursing and Midwifery. It describes their first day of duty at the Department of Health Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Pilar, Bataan. The students were given presentations about the facility and its policies. They were also instructed on how to complete client case histories and presentations. The author found the experience exciting as their first time handling an actual psychiatric client. They were grouped in threes to interview and gather information from a resident to create a case presentation.

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Orientation Narrative

The document provides an orientation summary for Level 3 student nurses at the Bataan Peninsula State University College of Nursing and Midwifery. It describes their first day of duty at the Department of Health Treatment and Rehabilitation Center in Pilar, Bataan. The students were given presentations about the facility and its policies. They were also instructed on how to complete client case histories and presentations. The author found the experience exciting as their first time handling an actual psychiatric client. They were grouped in threes to interview and gather information from a resident to create a case presentation.

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BATAAN PENINSULA STATE UNIVERSITY

MAIN CAMPUS
College of Nursing and Midwifery www.bpsu.edu.ph
City of Balanga, 2100 Bataan

Orientation

Last May 12, 2022, on Monday, around 6:15am, we were tasked to gather to the BPSU CNM
Building and onto the bus to make our way to the Department of Health – Treatment and Rehabilitation
Center in Liyang, Pilar, Bataan. This is the first day of official duty in a psychiatric setting of the Level 3
student nurses of BPSU. The instructors who were with us throughout the day were Ma’am Calimbas,
Ma’am Aguilar, Ma’am Carlos and Ma’am Sombiluna. This is also my first time coming to this location
and am unaware that this place even existed. Our original location was the Mariveles Mental Facility in
Mariveles but we were denied entry due to the existing COVID cases inside but luckily were accepted in
the TRC. There are unfamiliar faces and areas of the center and I was uneasy that I would get lost.

After we arrived and wore our apron, we formed a line according to the names called out from
the Google Forms we answered last night and this morning. The student nurses wore their duty clothes,
with the white uniform, the caps, the pins and ID and the apron to finish the touch. The staff greeted us
welcomely and escorted us to the area where we will put down our bags and other stuff. We were
instructed that no gadgets are permitted inside the premises where the residents are and only pen and
papers are granted inside. And tumblers. We were escorted then to the DOH TRC Auditorium where we
were greeted by the doctor-in-charge, Dr. Elizabeth Serrano and Dr. Joel and other case managers.
And we were given different kinds of presentations regarding what this place is, what it does, what their
structures and policies and guidelines are, who they usually house inside and the principles they applied
whenever someone misbehaves or violated a law. We were also given a format of a case history taking
and the format that they used in creating a case study presentation. After lunch, we were grouped in
members of 3. We drew lots on who we will receive as our client to create our case presentation. The
students were also given a photocopy of an intake sheet they used inside to write down the basic
information of the resident. We were given the whole afternoon to think of the strategies on what to ask,
who to ask these, how we will rotate and take down notes.

My impression of the first day was exhilarating and excited because this is my first time to
handle an actual client for a NPI and for the whole process. Though we don’t have enough time for the
working phase, I was glad that I get to experience this kind of duty. What makes this duty special was
my mother was there with me. She was hired as a part-time instructor for the psychiatric ward and she
facilitated us from start to finish. When I saw the intake sheet, I was baffled on how many information we
were supposed to get from our resident. But since we are 3 members, I believe this is doable. The staff
looks friendly and their policies like the hair cut was great in my opinion because I don’t think softly
handling these kinds of people, no matter their attitude should be given a dose of reality check
especially when they violated a law inside the facility when they should be healing their addiction for the
better.

Submitted by:
Sombiluna, Dorothy Ann F.
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