Starting a Career in Neurosurgery Residency
Entering the medical field is an incredibly rigorous job to to go into. There is so much time and commitment being that goes into being a doctor or a surgeon. Brain Surgery also known as Neurosurgery is one of the hardest jobs that exists in the medical field as it is working with one of the most important parts of the human body: the brain. They have to be on call the majority of the day and night because once someone comes in with a severe brain injury, there is only so much time until that injury becomes untreatable. Upon completion of medical school, most students are unsure of which field of interest they want to go into. Internship is the next step where they learn a little more and get to experience
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This puts residents in a tough position where they need to stick with the patient no matter how tough the case might get. There will be various research that they need to complete in order to ensure that the patient is getting the treatment that is best for this situation and that all the possible cures have been mapped out accurately. Persevering with the patients includes sticking with them even when it gets tough, after surgery the patients won’t recover for a few weeks, even months. It is the Neurosurgeons job to ensure that the patient is recovering safely, and not having any serious medical issues. This comes up often in most cases as the brain is a very complex, important system to the body and if one little thing gets messed up it effects the entire brain. For example: Chris Temme had surgery to cure his Chiari malformation (which is where the brain stem extends into the base of the skull, this is very painful) this is a very rare condition so many surgeons weren’t willing to take it on. After a surgeon finally did, he completed the surgery successfully but Chris had to stay in the hospital for a few days because he was still not in the best condition. During this time his neurosurgeon was incredibly busy so he had colleagues check on him. When Chris did come back to the hospital with serious complications, the Neurosurgeon who completed his …show more content…
This comes down to whether they know what they’re doing or not in that they had to have completed all the research as required. Rainer talks about how nerveracking it is to make surgical judgments as he is completing one to get rid of the brain aneurysm (a bulging, weak part of the artery that makes it capable to supply blood to brain). “To see the aneurysm better, I slowly removed bone from the base of the skull. I steadied my hands as I ground down the bone with an air drill. The drill was only millimeters away from the optic nerve and carotid artery, and one slip, even a slight tremor of my hands, would tear the brain, nerve or artery, either blinding or killing her. I worried constantly that the aneurysm would rupture again and hemorrhage into the brain before I clipped it” (Rainer, 1987). Rainer, alike to other Neurosurgeon residents has to make tough calls in surgery and determine what exactly needs to be done to save the patient. It’s very stressful to do this and having steady hands during surgery is key. This also is where all those years of medical school and internship finally pay off and as Dr. Konoch mentioned, this is why residency is so tough. It is graded and in surgical cases it is crucial that they do everything as they previously learned in medical school or internship. This varies more depending on
Everyday life in a hospital is complete and absolute chaos. There are doctors and nurses running everywhere to treat patients, ambulances coming through every so often, children and patients crying, and surgeons telling a family that their loved one did not make it. However, outside of all that craziness is an operating room (OR). A place filled with pressure, intensity, high hopes, and stress. There to help control the environment is a surgical technologist. While preparing patients for surgery, surgical technologists manage the equipment and operating room, follow the instructions of the surgeon, and ensure the safety of the patient.
Although nurses do not wield the power of doctors in hospital settings, they are still able to effectively compensate for a doctor’s deficits in a variety of ways to assure patient recovery. Nurses meet a patient’s physical needs, which assures comfort and dignity Nurses explain and translate unfamiliar procedures and treatments to patients which makes the patient a partner in his own care and aids in patient compliance. Nurses communicate patient symptoms and concerns to physicians so treatment can be altered if necessary and most importantly, nurses provide emotional support to patients in distress.
As a medical / surgical RN, I provided care for the elderly, the infirm, the mentally challenged, the young, and the psychologically disturbed. The wide variety of patients exposed me to the effects of life style choices, health care choices, and the resulting impacts to the patient as well as to the family of the patient. This experience has fully matured my view of the awesome responsibility that we, as health care professionals, have been charged with, and it has furthered my desire to obtain the skills necessary to provide more advanced care for my patients. In addition to exposure, maturity and experience, my career as a medical / surgical RN has also sharpened my critical thinking abilities and provided insight on observing signs and symptoms that a patient may be unware of. Furthermore, as a charge nurse I learned the importance of collaborating with other health care professionals in order to provide the highest level of care available. In summary, my career as an RN has provided valuable experience, maturity, exposure to impact and outcome, enhanced my critical thinking abilities, and improved my collaboration
...ing education courses and renew certification. When they are considered competent enough to deliver anesthesia, they must also be able to deal effectively with the daily changes and challenges that a hospital environment can create. They must also be able to “stomach” many types of sense triggers. Although they are one of the top paid nursing practices, they have to endure stress throughout their whole career, starting with the educational aspects.
The brain is a mystifying tissue that controls our bodies, conducting all the energy needed to make conscious and unconscious actions. This pink blob had always caught my attention during my earlier years and my interest had only spiked when my little brother became a victim of a horrible fall. The experience of seeing his brain deteriorate at such a fast pace awoke a passion and desire to learn more about the functions and genetic makeup of the incredibly powerful pink squishy tissue in our heads. By the time I was 13, I knew I definitely wanted to become a neurosurgeon to help study the dark and unexplored layers of the brain.
Surgeon Research Paper My career is a surgeon to become a surgeon you have to complete four years of college in the medical field from colleges like • Caribbean Medical University School of Medicine • Harvard Medical School • University of California San Francisco • Perelman School of Medicine ( University of Pennsylvania) • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine • UW School of Medicine • UNC School of Medicine • Stanford School of Medicine • Mayo Medical School • Pittsburgh School of Medicine Surgeons are doctors with highly specialized training they perform many different surgeries. Deformities and problems caused by injury or accidents and others like Neurosurgery that involves the brain, nerves, spinal cord. A surgeon’s income can range from $100,000 to $500,000 a year or more.
...le feel comfortable yet not feel any pain before, during, and after surgery requires much more responsibility than it sounds but in the end it is probably one of the most rewarding careers out there.
Mobility grants opportunity and lifelong experiences through the gift of exploration and independence. Without autonomy of movement in one’s life, there are struggles accompanied by frustration do to the lack of freedom and ability. It is an orthopedic surgeon’s job to bring function to one’s life even if they have never been granted movement without restraint before. Orthopedic surgeons receive patients whose freedom of movement have been compromised and then return it back to them. Orthopedic surgeons give immeasurable opportunities and life experiences back to their patients because of their perseverance and commitment to their patients and careers.
Everyday, people go through surgery and require a specialist that will monitor their surgery as well as give them what they need to be able to persevere the pain, which is exactly what anesthesiologists do. In order for the patients to be able to get into surgery and deal with the agonizing aches after the abscission, anesthesiologists have to give the sufferer the proper treatment before and after the surgery. Overall, anesthesiologists must be highly educated in both medicine and communication, they need to be able to give the patient the right amount of medicine as well as speak with the family of patients and other doctors to inform them all with what will be done during the surgery, and they need to be able to properly assist the surgeons during operations.
The idea of taking care of someone and providing assistance to a complete stranger is something not many people do. Seeing people at their worst, during a difficult, challenging and frightening moment of their life is not a job many people would take. However, being there for a person at their time of need is what captivates me the most. Nursing, a career I want to pursue and one that is on my to-do list. Being a nurse entails a lot of things; you must be strong, passionate, hardworking, and caring. Becoming a nurse is my ultimate career goal. In the long term a clear-cut decision would be to further continue my education and become an Nurse Anesthetist with a Master's degree.
Although students were not allowed in the recovery unit, I was able to talk to one of the recovery nurses. I learned that a nurse’s duty of care includes monitoring the patient’s vital signs and level of consciousness, and maintaining airway patency. Assessing pain and the effectiveness of pain management is also necessary. Once patients are transferred to the surgical ward, the goal is to assist in the recovery process, as well as providing referral details and education on care required when the patient returns home (Hamlin, 2010).
Another strategy is working collaboratively with other healthcare professional. This informs the RN on what type of procedure is scheduled, how long it will last, and what type of anesthesia will be administered. This information will ultimately help the perioperative RN determine which equipment is best suited and recognize patients at high risk. According to Spruce, “as an advocate for the patient, the perioperative RN should question any chosen position if he or she believes it may compromise the patient’s safety.” (2014)
As it says in the same article the best part of the internship is that interns are not left alone by themselves. They have supports and mentors who guide them to be more compatible in the future. They give advice, suggestion and different sorts of ideas for planning and being successful. Also on the same note, in another scholarly article name, An Empirical Comparison of Internal Auditors, Professional Performance With or Without Prior Academic Internship mentions that an internship allows a student to develop in the real work environment and gain practical experience while earning their degrees. One of the main reason universities have internship requirement for most of the majors is for the academic benefits of students.
In this essay/report I will explain to the best of my abilities, my possible career path. I have wanted to be many things. In grade 1, I wanted to be a superhero, and that hope stayed out for a while. Later on, when I was 10, my brain started getting new ideas, exploring the world around me, thinking of other things aside form cartoons and I thought to myself, how in the world am I going to become a superhero? I started thinking of other jobs like firefighter, police officer, engineer, construction worker etc., etc. But then I decided it was no good. Then one day when I was watching an interview on TV, a firefighter was being interviewed and one of the questions was: How long did it take you to decide what you wanted to be? And he said a long time. Then I wondered how long a long time would be, I wanted to jump into the TV and ask the guy how long a long time was. Hmm, I wondered, how long is a long time and then I answered my question. “It’s going to be a long time ‘till it’s a long time, I’ve got nothing to worry about.” That question just flew off my mind until at the start of grade eight when I encountered this question again, and I answered it. It took a while and some research but I answered it. I want to be a Neurosurgeon when I grow up.
Surgeons have a lot on their plate when it comes to their work. Surgeons are doctors who are specialized in certain surgeries and operations. While being a surgeon there are many subspecialties that one surgeon could pursue (Field). Surgeons will diagnose and treat patients depending on their condition. They will perform a variety of surgeries on the every single part of the human body (“Surgeon”). It’s important for a surgeon to know everything about a patient’s medical history so they can perform their job to the best of their ability and also decide whether or not the patient needs surgery. They also ...