Summary: Clinical Makeup Assignment

8 Clinical Makeup Assignment

The HESI Patient Review modules exposed me to three critical concepts in the nursing profession – cellular regulation, infection, and immunity. It did not stand as the terms, themselves, that were elaborated on, but rather, patient case scenarios that directly related to these three concepts. To create a foundation, I will provide a basic definition for the terms. Cellular regulation refers to,” all functions carried out within a cell to maintain homeostasis, including its responses to extracellular signals (e.g., hormones, cytokines, and neurotransmitters) and the way each cell produces an intracellular response” (Giddens, 2017). To maintain homeostasis, within a cell, two primary functions must occur - cellular

Through education, I will teach patients the importance of vaccinations, hand washing, and body hygiene. To prevent the spread of infection, I will implement my standard precautions and any isolation precautions that my patients are ordered. Standard precaution, a set of infection control practices used to prevent transmission of diseases, include personal protective equipment, needle safety, patient care equipment, and most importantly, hand hygiene. These standard precautions should be used with every patient encountered, as the most basic level of infection control. At an injury site, whether it be surgical or trauma, I will monitor and assess for signs of infection, such as: redness, yellow/green pus, swelling, tenderness, pain, warmth, and fever. When caring for patients, who already have an infection, I will monitor for signs of sepsis - fever, hypotension, increased heart rate, elevated blood glucose, confusion, and thrombocytopenia. Infections can occur to any individual, often standing as a diagnosis for patients. It is my job as the nurse to prevent infections, assess and monitor for deviations, and treat the infection when given