My role today for the Home Health Simulation was an actress portraying a depressed mother of 5, amongst those was my pregnant teenage daughter played by Elizabeth. When the students first entered the home they failed to mention what their overall purpose for the visit was, it would have been nice to start off explaining what is was they were there to do. This made it a little awkward I wasn’t sure if I should ask if they wanted a tour of the home or if I should just continue what I was doing. So I went about my morning, I went in the kitchen to get the baby her antibiotics, to my surprise all 3 had followed me into the kitchen where I felt a little cornered. They were all quick to offer advice on med administration, Elizabeth felt like they
I was then introduced to a patient who was in isolation. Her legs were immovable and were crossed in a very uncomfortable position. I wish I could’ve done something so that her legs could be in a more comfortable position, but all I could do was observe and get her a cup of ice cold water to drink. During this clinical observation, I didn’t get to see much but overall, it was a good experience. It made me realize what it was like to be in a hospital setting and what it meant to be a nurse. Seeing how the patients were still able to smile through all the pain they went through, it made me want to become a nurse even more because I would also like to make my patients happy. If I could do one thing differently during this clinical observation, I wish I didn’t ask my senior nurse about what externships she took and instead, I wished I asked her more questions about the patients in order to gain more information about
For this section of presentations, I learned about health professional jobs that focused on behavior health. This section’s class presentations focused on community needs, substance use disorders, and nursing simulation learning program. Each presentation was educational and interesting to learn about. I enjoyed learning about the simulation learning center and how the student nurses learn and engage in nursing school.
On the first evening of service, I was prepared, yet scared that I would say something wrong or the children there would not accept my ideas. When I arrived, the group was small, as promised since it was a Saturday and many of the hospital guests were out with their parents or home for a fun weekend of activities. The children and youth who were there, however, gathered 'round for some of the activities I had planned. First, I made it a point to learn everyone's name which meant that I p...
In this essay I am going to investigate whether health is easily defined as the absence of disease or physical injury. According to Health psychology (2009) ‘World Health Organisation defined health as a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. In order to achieve good physical a nutrition diet is needed, healthy BMI, rest and adequate physical exercise is needed.
20. What do I do if my child, spouse, coworker, next-door neighbor or friend comes to my department when it’s my turn to arrive, admit, transfer, place an order, discharge, see, treat, code, bill, do a quality review, infection control consult, or do a data extraction on a patient?
At the same time of this occurrence there were other things that went on pertaining to transference and counter transference. The Intern and I definitely had some type of strong transference and counter transference going on. There was a clash of personalities between the intern and me. We totally did not get along. I felt uneasy and that she did not want me there in the room with her. Why? I thought that maybe she felt challenged. I don’t know, but I felt I asked the patient questions that she forgot to ask. I also gave her my opinion about treatment principle, which I do not think she appreciated. With my previous interns, I was very much part of the intake and treatment process. The interns and I would ask questions. If one forgo...
My clinical week was emotional and physically draining this week. I enjoyed being the lead on Thursday because it gave me the opportunity to stop and observe. The nurses and the CNAs were very stressed out, and I clearly saw the effect on the patients. For instance, one of the CNAs asked me to help her with an occupied bed change. I was excited. However, she kept passing a bunch of comments of how hard nursing is and how she did not want to be old. I did not acknowledge any of her comments. Perhaps she thought she could express herself (as a result of her stress) in front the patient since the patient was non verbal and could not understand. I felt very bad. I was very uncomfortable and sad. For me, it doesn’t matter whether the patient
The experience that I had in simulation was great. I expected it to be very different opposite of what I thought. I was nervous and anxious when simulation day was coming up. The scenarios that were performed taught me a lot of things and prepared me in the future nursing career. What I thought I did well is being clients advocate. In the scenario with Henry he had COPD and was having shortness of breath during the simulation. I stood there by him while my colleagues were preparing medications for him. I have learned that we as nurses cannot leave our client unattended especially when client is having SOB and is in distress. It is very important to put your client’s priorities first.
In a research article by Bradley et al. (2013), students were asked to adopt the role of occupational therapy students and perform simulation activities for two consecutive days. However, only two students able to take the occupational therapist role while others observed. The students who undertook the occupational therapist role expressed that the experience provided a fully immersive simulated experience and were challenged to think quickly which reflected real clinical acute care experience (Bradley et al., 2013). Their type of simulation involved human beings as the patients and the teachers took on this role. This study provided more of a personal experience and a debriefing after the simulation to determine the pros and cons of simulation
Overall today was extremely busy. There was a total of 21 patients seeking therapy. For each patient that was seen throughout the day, I prepared hot packs and ice packs and monitored them throughout each exercise session. Aside from supervising patients, I was able to start my Needs assessment with patients. I selected 8 patients based on their age and frequency of visit, in order to gather accurate and efficient information overtime. I was able to interview patients during their 8 minutes hot pack session, and then I introduced myself and stated the purpose of this study/intervention. Each patient was very engaged and responded to each question appropriately. I did not hand out brochures on this day because I felt it would be beneficial to
My role is to train and license perspective foster parents. The training I facilitated is called Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting, or MAPP, which all interested candidates must complete as part of the certification process. The MAPP training is facilitated once a week for three hours, which equates to a total of thirty hours. During those ten weeks, I tend to develop a very close report with at least one of the participants. In my last MAPP training, for instance, I became very close with a 45 years-old Dominican woman whose modified name is Maria Perez. The connection I developed with Maria was different than the ones I have established in the past with other perspective foster parents. I attribute this, in part, to the fact that Maria and I share the same ethnic background. During one of the training sessions, Maria shared that her main motivation to become a foster parent is because she is unable to biologically conceive. This made me develop deep empathy for Maria as I have experienced the feelings of loss that come with infertility in my family. Maria and I used to talk almost at the end of each meeting. During one of our conversations, Maria expressed to be grateful with the knowledge she had acquired from the training and our conversations. In our last session, like usual, Maria came to me after class. However, this time her approach was
Now it was the middle of January and Michelle comes up to me while we are sitting on the wall and she looks very unhappy. Joyce had not driven us to school that today because of a doctor’s appointment but I had not thought anything of it. I could tell she was unhappy although she had not said a word. Since it was a Tuesday and I was in uniform. I really was not supposed to be smoking but I was any way. I offered Michelle a smoke because I thought it would calm her down but she did not take it. That was when I knew that there was something definitely wrong with her.
On the second week of my placement, I was asked to bed-bath an 85 year male old patient in my bay, in the ward and get him ready for breakfast. This patient had, had a bowel surgery and as a result he had a stoma bag on. This patient was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) IN 2010, but his condition had grown worse over the years. IBD mainly refers to Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohns disease (CD). However, this patient had Crohns disease. I was asked to bed-bath him by my mentor while she was observing me as she had taught me how to assist patients with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL) which are considered to be important.
Luckily, our scenario was something that I have encountered at my CVS Pharmacy back home. I thought about how my pharmacist handled the exact same situation and mimicked her actions. When performing the activity, I thought about what excuses or ideas can the patient toss at us and how can we navigate through those excuses. Overall, I thought the team performed really well under the pressure and came up with solid ideas and plans.
My assigned patient was very easy to take care of and required very minimum attention and care due to the patient age, independency and constant family support. However, the patient was very collaborative at time of assessment and medication. The fact the patient was able to provide his own personal hygiene and was ready to be discharged made our interaction shorter; however, it is always nice to see patients feeling better and able to go home and try to continue with their own routines and family relationship. On the other hand the fact that my patient was getting discharge allow me to be a little more involve with other patients on the unit and assist my classmate with their patients. The fact that Friday was my last at Children’s Hospital make me think on how much I enjoyed the rotation and work with children, it has been definitely a great experience that make me considered pediatric as a possible place of work and a field that seems very tentative as a possible route to