A handwritten note originally posted by Singapore page 'Five Stars and a Moon' has gone viral.
Accompanying it was a letter by one 'Cindy Ong', who said the note was given to her mother, a senior staff nurse at a local hospital.
Ong wrote:
Dear Editor,
Yesterday I found my mother crying after coming back from work, and she shared this letter with me. I was horrified and outraged that someone could write such a demeaning letter.
My mother is a senior staff nurse at a local hospital in Singapore who simply loves what she does. But this letter really broke her heart. It was from a patient who had been admitted for less than a week and she had been verbally abusing my mother, calling her “stupid”, “idiot” and “b*tch”. Once, she even spat on her when the hospital food was not to her liking.
What offended me most was that Ms Siew Ling asked my mother to quit her job just because she is “old”. She may be 63 years old, but I do not think how well she does her job should be based on her age, as my mother has been in the nursing industry for more than 30 years and has garnered extensive experience during her service as a nurse.
This is a tough and thankless job and I hope that people would be more patient towards nurses.
Yours,
Cindy Ong
Read the note that made the nurse cry, in full:
A handwritten note originally posted by Singapore page 'Five Stars and a Moon' has gone viral.
Accompanying it was a letter by one 'Cindy Ong', who said the note was given to her mother, a senior staff nurse at a local hospital.
Ong wrote:
Dear Editor,
Yesterday I found my mother crying after coming back from work, and she shared this letter with me. I was horrified and outraged that someone could write such a demeaning letter.
My mother is a senior staff nurse at a local hospital in Singapore who simply loves what she does. But this letter really broke her heart. It was from a patient who had been admitted for less than a week and she had been verbally abusing my mother, calling her “stupid”, “idiot” and “b*tch”. Once, she even spat on her when the hospital food was not to her liking.
What offended me most was that Ms Siew Ling asked my mother to quit her job just because she is “old”. She may be 63 years old, but I do not think how well she does her job should be based on her age, as my mother has been in the nursing industry for more than 30 years and has garnered extensive experience during her service as a nurse.
This is a tough and thankless job and I hope that people would be more patient towards nurses.
Yours,
Cindy Ong
Read the note that made the nurse cry, in full: