Reflective Journal: Clinical Nursing Experience

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Clinical Nursing Experience Reflective Journal 1
This week during my clinical day, we learned how to properly put on PPE, or Personal Protective Equipment.
We were told about each aspect of PPE, and different reasons why they are used, and the different situations and diseases that they help to protect both the nurses, and the patients, from. We also did a PPE relay, where we were split into groups and tried to be the fastest to properly put on all of our PPE. It was very useful, and I felt that it was helpful in learning the proper order to put on PPE. My group for the relay was not the first one done, but we did take our time, and check the list on the board lots to make sure that we were putting things on in the right order. Everyone was very helpful in reminding others in our group which order things were supposed to be put on. …show more content…

113). It is just as important to know how to properly don and doff PPE in order to break the chain of infection. During the relay, while we might have donned and doffed our equipment in the proper order, nobody was checking to make sure that it fit right, was tied on properly, and we were all lazy in taking it off, in order to try and do it the fastest. In the past, I had a co-operative education placement in the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, and learned there that it is more important to put things on properly, than to put them on

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