In our "Dream job found" series, trainees present their apprenticeship.
Today: Elina Aruqi and Jana Petrovski, nurses at the district clinic in Wolfratshausen.
Wolfratshausen – When Elina Aruqi decided on her training, she heard the same reaction from many people: "Do you really want to wipe other people's butts?" Aruqi was undeterred by the prejudice.
She is happy to have started an apprenticeship as a nursing specialist in the district clinic in Wolfratshausen.
Together with her colleague Jana Petrovski, she gives an insight into her daily work.
The two clear up stereotypes.
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The job offers the 17-year-old from Geretsried much more than the initial reactions of her friends would have suggested.
"We're learning a lot about anatomy and the human body," explains Petrovski.
Also about your own, about the care and about how the human organism actually works.
“It always interested me,” says Petrovski.
It is knowledge that they have to call up in everyday life, because nurses place infusions, catheters and stomach tubes, they treat wounds and take intensive care of patients.
"We also take on medical tasks," explains instructor Lena Pfeil. She not only looks over the shoulders of the trainees, but also explains every step, for example placing an infusion, which Aruqi demonstrates.
“We spend most of our time with people,” Pfeil knows.
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Elina Aruqi and Jana Petrovski are training to become nurses
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Nurses in the clinic develop a close relationship with the patient: "For some, we are the last to talk to"
It is not uncommon for a patient-caregiver relationship to develop.
Petrovski: “A lot of people want to talk to us.
We also take the time if we can.” Then older patients talk about their lives, “sometimes they are stories that they have already told their family a hundred times but would definitely like to share with someone again”.
Because – and this also makes the work emotionally stressful – “for some patients, we are the last people they talk to.”
This is perhaps the most difficult lesson a nursing trainee has to learn.
"It's important to be able to keep a certain distance - and still be human," Petrovski summarizes.
In her very first week of work, a patient she had been in contact with shortly before died.
"It was difficult," she says.
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When she remembers her months at work, there are mainly beautiful moments in front of her inner eye.
For example, a patient who didn't call for any nurse, but always directly for her, the trainee who was just having her first experience.
"That was nice for me because she obviously liked the way I treated her." These are touching human moments that compensate for some of the stress that the job entails.
Aruqi: "This gratitude is priceless".
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In addition to patient care in the clinic, the young women's training plan also includes work in geriatric care and outpatient services.
"The areas are very different," says Petrovski, and exciting in their own way.
Which creates additional excitement: "You never know what's waiting for you when the door opens."
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In the public perception, care has experienced a great upswing in recent years.
In the middle of the corona pandemic, many people realized the effort and important service that the men and women in this field perform.
The job is crisis-proof in the truest sense of the word.
For Petrovski and Aruqi, however, that was not the reason for their decision: "It's just a nice feeling that you can help others," says Aruqi.
Maybe she has the helper gene in her blood, some of her family members work in the same profession.
Therefore, the Geretsried native also knew what deprivations a shift plan, as is common in the care sector, entails.
“Sometimes we have to work weekends or evenings,” she says.
Then you might miss a family birthday or an evening with friends.
"Then the next morning I see on Instagram what they did while I was working." At first it bothered her a little.
Meanwhile, Aruqi says: "It's more important to me to help."
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In our "Dream job found" series, trainees present their apprenticeship.
In no particular order, they give young people who are still undecided a decision-making aid before the start of the next training year.
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