Since my internship won’t start until next week, I will write about my work last weekend at the Crestwood PHF. As a Rehab Assistant, I’ve been Pro-ACT Restraint Certified but have never had to use restrain anyone until now. Crestwood employees are trained to evade whenever possible and only use physical contact when a client becomes a danger to themselves or others. I’ve worked as “crowd control” or held up a barrier to prevent a client from spitting on a teammate, but have never had physically held anyone down. I surprised myself by instinctively doing what needed to be done, and learned a lot about how to improve team communication and correct positioning to be more prepared the next time around. We debriefed, and the more experienced staff
This time, I decided to be more talkative and ask more questions about the patients. My senior nurse showed me a patient who fell down a couple flight of stairs and due to his accident, he injured his brain severely to the point where he couldn’t speak anymore. She explained to me all the medications that he had to take and how she had to look up the patient’s lab report because the medications he takes might affect him in different ways. After she was done with looking up his lab reports, I watched her feed the patient for an hour and thirty minutes. During this time, I really felt bad for the patient because he was half-awake and half-asleep while eating. It saddened me how we had to disrupt his resting time to feed him before he could take his medication. After the patient was done eating, I watched the nurse give the patient Lovenox, which I learned was given to patients who are immobile in order to stop blood clotting. After giving him his medication, we had to transfer him off the bed and into a chair, which was my favorite part about this clinical observation. I got to physically help move him off his bed and into a chair. This took 3 nurses, including myself to move him and it made me realize how nursing really requires teamwork. I then got to help clean him up and after changing him, it was time to leave the hospital. This clinical observation made me really excited to be a nurse because I
When I learned that one individual can only do so much while a group of passionate individuals can even move mountains, I took on the role of a shift leader to moderate volunteers and joined the emergency department to study a new environment the hospital offer. During that time, I trained numerous volunteers and assisted countless staffs in saving lives at an effective rate with quality services. Many volunteers I trained are continuing their ardent determination to thrive in the small volunteer room alongside with zealous
You did an awesome work, I heard. We have monthly meetings, where we talk about the latest news in the nursing world, policy and procedure, quality improvement and many more issues. What I really enjoy about the meeting is that everyone can address his/her concerns without feeling afraid and intimidated. The meeting led by a registered nurse who is familiar with our day to day situation at work.
Lateral violence is a major issue that often occurs within the healthcare setting, and it places great impact on the delivery of healthcare. I personally have experienced being a victim of lateral violence within my current workplace setting. In November 2014, I began a new job working with patients dealing with alcohol and substance addiction. I came onto the job with an ADN, while there was an older male nurse with a BSN who started the same time I did. This nurse was assigned to a work a supervisory position on a higher-level monitoring detoxification/behavioral unit. I noticed that there were times when myself, as well as other female nurses, would need to communicate to him that a patient needed to be more closely monitored. On several
There are always going to be obstacles to overcome, as a paraprofessional. It is extremely vital to be knowledgeable on how to handle all of different kinds of scenarios. Case study number one presents one of the many possible situations that could take place in a residence hall. Washington State University offers numerous resources and there are multiple processes that can help take care of abundant types of hurdles. As long as the situation is given time, work, and patience, the issues will be taken by the roots and dissolved.
For two semesters of my junior year, I interned at Huntsville Hospital, shadowing nurses and technicians in many different areas of the hospital, including the emergency room and cardiovascular units. Oddly enough, I liked giving obese, old patients bed baths, helping them to the bathroom, and cleaning their bed pans. But, don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t exactly what I loved doing, but I knew it was part of the job, and I willingly did the dirty work. By the end of my junior year, I knew I loved the hospital environment and wanted to eventually work there; however, I just didn’t know in what capacity.
I come in here and do what I'm asked without hesitation, I am always a team player. I don't complain about things, I am always respectful and professional to my co-workers and our patients. Everything that I wanted to do this year have been placed on hold because of this. I didn't plan on being a Front Office Assistant forever. Whenever something happens in this office you can ask my manager I am always trying to think of the bigger picture and find ways to improve things here. The accusations that were brought against me are totally not my character. Take some time to ask the people I work with on the daily.
The title of the first presentation was Practicum Experience at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Joshua Moore is from the Kinesiology-Exercise/Fitness Management and he did his internship at Oklahoma Heart Hospital. Joshua made programs using dumbbells for his group of clients at his Internship. Other responsibilities he had was to monitor them while they exercised, check their ECGs and paperwork. He mentioned that checking their ECGs was the hardest part of the job since he was not very familiar with it from the beginning. Overall, Josh enjoyed working at a cardiac rehab center.
I chose to create a scenario that was similar to an incident that occured to a co-worker when I was working on a med-surg floor as a new grad.
Beginning at the age of six, I have played some type of sport year round. I was always a bigger kid growing up, weight wise and height wise and unfortunately, I inherited bad knees. Combine this with the perils if sports plus some bad luck, the saying “the bigger they are the harder they fall” was a reality for me. When I fell, I fell hard. It took a lot of pain for me to want to go to the doctor’s office. I have spent a lot of time there. I’ve had many physical therapy sessions as well. I’ve also had numerous conversations with active athletic trainers and people that were athletic trainers in the past. They all said the same thing, “I love my job.” In the 8th grade one particular therapist sparked my interest in becoming a physical therapist.
First of all, nursing courses require a lot of critical and strategic thinking skills. These courses are meant to teach us how to take care of patients with specific illnesses and we are also taught how to keep them safe while we care for them. I am referring to the legal, ethical, and safety practices that we are taught all throughout nursing school. I have been fortunate enough to witness quality safety practices throughout all my rotations, but that is not to say that the potential for a violation has not been present. The most recent example I can think of deals with safety practices with patients who are restrained. I have noticed the use restraints to be an option that can cause great distress if abused, but is quite frequently necessary in a unit such as the one I am currently on, which is the medical intensive care unit. Although it is concerning, many of the patients who have required restraints have been ones that are constantly pulling out tubing such as Foley catheters, nasogastric tubes, and IVs. At this point in my education, I have not attended a rotation where an incident report while filed, but I have come to learn that on units such as med-surg, common incident reports filed are about patient falls. I have come to that conclusion based on my personal experience during clinical rotations. The majority of the time I have gone to clinical, the patient has been elderly, frail, or
I must say it was very overwhelming, and I couldn’t possibly remember every place we went to, however I do remember the conversations that Mike and I had. Mike expressed his own philosophy towards helping people to include his role as a social worker and why he chose to become a social worker. We talked about school and the importance of self-care, which had become a major theme of my experience at WSH thus far. The tour ended at our offices and Mike and I sat down and talked about what the role of the discharge team is and what my role would be. We also talked about my schedule, which I stated that I would be available on Monday’s, Wednesday’s and Friday’s, thus has been my schedule since. I have since completed two weeks at WSH, learning a lot, and shadowing Mike while I get a feel for what is involved in discharging a patient from
It requires a great deal of strength, not only physically but emotionally as well. There is a great deal of physical work involved, such as lifting patients and equipment. You are on your feet most of of the day, and there is little patience for idle hands. Patients will often require much patience, and excellent people skills are a must. There will also be situations that will pull on the heart strings, however, we are there to do a job, and to do it to the greatest of our ability. Yes, I was aware of most of these requirements, but I don’t believe that I understood them to the fullest detail, and I probably won’t, unless I experience them first-hand. Fortunately, now, I have been educated on expecting such circumstances, and will be better equipped to handle them when such situations
I have worked for the West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services (WVDRS) for over three years as a Rehabilitation Service Associate. During that time I have been given the opportunity to work with the clients that we serve on a regular basis. However, the internship experience provided me with an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the rehabilitation process and what it means to work as a team with individuals to achieve goals. During my internship I was given the opportunity to work with students in high school sitting as well as students who were already involved in training services. Working with these students on a one on one basis provided me with the opportunity to use the counseling skills I have learned throughout
I went to the operating room on March 23, 2016 for the Wilkes Community College Nursing Class of 2017 for observation. Another student and I were assigned to this unit from 7:30am-2:00pm. When we got their we changed into the operating room scrubs, placed a bonnet on our heads and placed booties over our shoes. I got to observe three different surgeries, two laparoscopic shoulder surgeries and one ankle surgery. While cleaning the surgical room for the next surgery, I got to communicate with the nurses and surgical team they explained the flow and equipment that was used in the operating room.