These two nurses are happiest when their patients get better


For nurses, there is no greater satisfaction than seeing patients get back on their feet. Photos: The Star/Raymond Ooi

Tan Kim Ngor still recalls the day she and a fellow student nurse brought a patient back to life 25 years ago.

“I was on duty at the Intensive Care Unit when a patient who’d suffered a cardiac arrest was wheeled in. We had just learnt how to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and the doctor instructed us to perform it on the patient.

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