My Clinical Experience: Clinical Analysis

Going into my first week of clinical, I did not know what to expect. I was nervous the first couple of weeks due to the fact I am an introverted person and have never experienced anything like clinicals before. As the weeks went on, I became more comfortable and not as intimidated of the clinical setting. Clinicals gave me the opportunity to get out of my comfort zone and learn so many amazing things about healthcare. I was able to see many neat things while in clinicals. One of the neatest things I saw and will never forget, was when I was in respiratory therapy and I was able to see a patient be intubated. I had never realized how many healthcare professionals are involved when intubating a patient. There was around ten healthcare workers

Everything has to be documented to ensure the best care for the patient. During my clinical experience I was able to read the charts of a patient in the critical care unit. Since everything was documented about this patient I learned everything about this patient from the time they were admitted to the hospital. There was even documents about the patients before they were admitted to the hospital. Reading the documents about the patient helped me understand what was going on with the parwint without having to ask the RN. Documentation helps you understand everything about a patient. There was a time in clinicals where documentation did not work. When I was in radiology, one of the MRI techs was reading the charts of a patient they were about to scan and the tech could not figure out why the patient needed special care. The patients charts went all the back to 2013 and the tech could not figure out this patient. The tech had to end up calling the RN taking care of this patient to figure out what to do. It turns out that not everything was documented with the patient and there were holes in the chart that needed to be filled. When documentation is done right it makes healthcare professionals lives so much easier. Healthcare workers do not have to try to figure out the holes in a patient's chart. After seeing the MRI tech get frustrated over the patient's chart, I realized how important documentation was in healthcare. I have always heard about the importance of documentation but after clinicals I was able to understand just how important it is. Documentation is everywhere in healthcare and it plays an important role in providing exceptional care for a