When I think back to the day my daughter was born, so many different emotions ran through me. One of which was anxiety, that this new person was about to come into my life and I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I had awakened to my wife telling me we had to go to the hospital, that she had talked to the doctor and he was afraid that she was leaking her abiotic fluid, and that the our baby daughter might be in distress. I had gotten dressed, grabbed her bags, and started out for the hospital. After we had arrived the nurses escorted us up the delivery floor and had strapped my wife into a fetal monitor to check our baby’s status.
Picoult continues on this theme of “saving” by using Suzanne as Sara’s crutch, as she makes her coffee each morning and informs her of any missed phone calls. While in the hospital, Sara receives a call from Jesse’s principal informing her of Jesse’s suspension. On the car ride home she notices a bruise on his arm from a needle and assumes he has been using drugs. Jesse angrily explains how he has been donating blood that gave Kate platelets behind the family’s back, in order to “save” his sister. After two weeks in the hospital, Kate developed an infection that placed her in a coma on a respirator, which is “saving” her for the time being.
My 2nd practicum placement is where I give care directly to the patient. I take the patient’s vitals signs, I prepare and administer the medications, I assess the patients for irregularities and I feed and clean them. My first week started with just one patient to take care of, in between those times I try to help out my primary nurse whenever I can. My primary nurse is responsible for 4-6 patients on any given day and so I try to lessen the nurse’s burden by helping out. From my perspective, on some of the ‘routine’ things that needs to be done for the patient, it is just simply done.
Clinical Development Day at Emergency Room As part of the N4123 clinical experience, I was in ER on 25th September 2013. The purpose of this paper is to increased my understanding of all health care services provided to clients and families, explore the roles of health care team in ER and to explore changes in health care practice in ER setting. I arrived at the unit on time at 7:30 am. I was assigned with one of the nurse working in ER. I came to know how the system works while people are seeking health care services from ER.
model of structured reflection will be used (Driscoll, 1994). To keep in compliance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code of Professional Conduct (NMC, 2008 patient confidentiality, all names used within this essay have been changed. Driscoll (1994) suggests reflection begins with a factual description of an event that has happened. The district nurse and I saw a patient, Sarah, an eighty-five year old lady when we went to her home to change a venous leg ulcer dressing. The care plan was read and then the necessary equipment to continue with treating the wound was brought to where Sarah was sat.
Eventually, the doctor arrived and briefly and asked the patient few question before calling in the nurse to give her a prescription for some antibiotics. As a result, the patient felt the doctor had not spent much time with her. The patient had no opportunity to voice her concerns. She had not been given a chance to ask the doctor for a sick note for her employer verify that she was sick. The patient
During my placement at the allocated GP surgery I had the opportunity to observe how the doctor interacted with his patients as well as learn some of the foundation skills that are an important and integral part of my own training. The doctor would tell us a brief medical history about the patient before they walked in to the consultation. What I found fascinating was the fact that even if the doctor had seen these patients in the past he would never predict what their presenting complaint on that particular day would be and I thought this was a reflection of the medical profession in general; it is a dynamic kaleidoscopic career where no two days are ever the same. 2. Mrs A is one of the ladies I met on our first visit to the GP placement; she was an outspoken 40 year old lady who had come to see the doctor on that particular day as she was having pain when swallowing.
But after starting the cardiac system in anatomy class I was hooked. However I was short lived, after finding no local colleges offered a degree in sonography. The idea relieved by my mother in law a nurse manger of a local cardiac cath lab, my true enforcer, in support to education; introduce me to the position of a radiologist cath lab technician. After being introduced to the field by showing for a day I knew it was love at first sight, I wanted to know more about radiology. I found the idea diagnoses imaging amazing because it gives a different perspective on the human body without having to do surgery, and I was fascinate by the suffocated technology and computers used to produce these imagines, I found that the field was a lot more complex then I originally guessed and
When I went to my first clinical, I took a deep breath and plunged right in. I was scared, but I knew that the only way to be a successful nurse was to be able to apply what I learned in class. I remember when I left that day that I had never felt so tired. This was the day I truly realized the amount of responsibilities nurses had. As a sophomore-nursing student, I was unable to administer medications this semester.
There are a lot of positive outcomes that comes from becoming a nurse. Becoming a nurse gives you so many great career opportunities because there are so many nursing fields you can choose from. As I get older I will not be able to continue working on the ambulance and carrying people out of basements or high apartment floors. I believe the best continuation for me to put my best foot forward in helping people will be by becoming a nurse. A nurse is a very good career and to my knowledge I know there is a very high shortage in the health care field.