ECHD Reflective Report

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At the ECHD I met with the pediatric nurse, she talked me through the services offered there. The nurse showed me the charting portion of her jobs as well as what assessment is done on children. We mostly talked about immunizations, she showed me the room where they do the assessments and where the patient received the vaccines, I noticed that the room were arrange I a way to make the children more comfortable and make the experience less frightened. During rotation I witness multiples vaccinations, I noticed that when more than 2 vaccines were required, usually two nurses do it, that way is faster and child experiences less pain. The nurse reviewed with me the schedule that the children follow for immunization, she also provide me with a questionnaire that was handed to the parents, this questionnaire has some question such as there is any allergy to any medication or previous vaccine, also asks about current health status, all of this is done to check for any contraindication or precautions needed when give certain type of vaccine. I assisted the nurse while …show more content…

The nurse told me that there are two different offices in same department with two different vaccines supplies, one for private insured people and one for uninsured, and when the supply on either runs low they use the other one, that way treatment for a child is complete same day. I walked into the room where they keep the vaccine, majority of them where refrigerated by protocol policy, I saw how they drew from the vials and mixed. The CNA at the ECHD also offers great help with VS and the samples collection to test for viruses or diseases, the nurse told that sometimes the specimens are send out to a laboratory and the results are back usually in a week so follow with families is done through phone

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