An eight-year-old boy mendacity on a stretcher has simply entered the Begíjar physician’s workplace. He will get up as quickly as he sees Quique, the nurse, go by. “I’ve learn your e-book!!”, he yells at him. He just isn’t the one one, on this Jaén city of lower than three thousand inhabitants there are few individuals who haven’t learn ‘Historia de un enfermero de pueblo’, the story of how Quique exchanged a big hospital for rural drugs.
The e-book begins in 1989, when Quique Muñoz started working on the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba. There he was a part of the Emergency Operating Room Unit. “It is a really sophisticated service,” says Quique, “it’s not like a scheduled working room the place you recognize what you could have, you need to be ready for any emergency of any specialty.”
He needed to be taught on the go and he did it so properly that he had the chance to be a part of the Cordovan hospital’s Transplant Unit, one of the vital in Andalusia. But he didn’t do it, as an alternative he requested for a switch to Baeza, the place his household was from, and there he labored for 5 years in a well being heart.
Image by Quique Muñoz.NIUS
This was nonetheless too massive for him. “I used to be drawn to working in a small city,” says Quique, “I used to be trying to have a special relationship with sufferers.” So he talked to his superiors and requested them to provide him a brand new vacation spot. That vacation spot was Begíjar, the place he has been practising nursing for 27 years.
The tales which have accompanied him throughout these virtually three a long time are a part of his e-book. Simple tales like that of that affected person who someday entered the well being heart crying. “She had misplaced 10 kilos of weight and he or she was very overwhelmed,” she recollects. She had had a number of assessments carried out however she needed to wait 20 days till they gave her an appointment to see her outcomes. “Suddenly that very same day a gap appeared within the agenda that might solely be seen with the eyes of the guts”, says Quique, “and fortuitously we took away the scare”. She had nothing vital.
a particular relationship
He not too long ago needed to attend to an older girl to gather a urine pattern. “You needed to make him use a probe and also you needed to do it rapidly as a result of it is very uncomfortable,” she tells NIUS. She did it so rapidly that when she completed, the girl turned to Quique to assert one thing: “Are you going to go away me right here midway?” And immediately the seriousness of the second fell aside with a burst of laughter.
“Here you’re the nurse and never a nurse,” says Quique. In truth, the entire city is aware of his title, even the little ones. “I’ve pricked them, given them vaccines, injections… and even in order that they greet me on the road,” jokes Quique, who confesses that he would by no means work in a big hospital once more. “Here I’m going to work and I’m going to get pleasure from.”
He has needed to replicate all this within the e-book to which he has added a supportive ending. All the cash raised from the sale goes totally to the El Mundo de Namu Association, which fights for analysis on Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia, a sort of childhood most cancers that causes the demise of 115 kids a 12 months. “The finish couldn’t be that I’ve written a e-book and that is it,” says Quique, “this needed to depend for one thing.”