It’s amazing how much I learn in the past two years at ASA College. It’s just so hard to believe that less than a week we will be done with my education. I must admit I will miss spending my time here. But most of all I will never forget how my experience as an Intern Medical Assistant with Cancer Patients. Making a difference in someone life just fascinates me, knowing that I have the power to help someone.
The mother asked the pre-op nurse how long the procedure would take, because she had to tend to another child and would need to leave for a short while. The nurse told her the procedure would take approximately an hour and forty five minutes, which included recovery. The mother handed the nurse her cell phone number and asked to be called if the surgery was shorter than predicted. The mother insisted that she was only gone for two and a half hours, and when she returned to pick up her child, the child had been discharged to the father thirty minutes prior. She became very agitated, and security was called for assistance.
Once I started researching a career in nursing I realized that there were a lot more types of nurses then I had originally imagined. I have not decided on which field of nursing I would like to specialize in yet but I just imagine myself as a general nurse, working in a hospital setting. A Registered Nurse (RN) is not a doctor assistant; a RN gets to treat wounds, give IV’s and basically get to treat their own patients. Right now my main priority is to stay focused on taking all necessary steps to pursuing Nursing as a career.Gwendolyn Mink describes most Registered Nurses as working directly with the patients and their families. They are the families’ contact with the medical world, in the hospital and at the patients’ home.
In the article “Gender Bender by Jill Vollbrecht we learn about a diabetic woman and her hairier problem. Her deep voice, furry arms and her bald spot points to a hormonal imbalance, but a deeper look into her problem reveals an even better explanation to why this is happening. As we read on we learn about Judy, the diabetic patient and her doctor visit. Dr. Vollbrecht seemed to been having a busy day. She had just finished seeing what seemed like a hundred diabetic patients, one after the other.
As a nurse with many years of experience in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and Nephrology/Dialysis, I have had much experience with death and dying. It was never so evident as in the long term illness of my mother. My father and sister were unable to understand the situation as I did with my professional experience. Even my and the doctor’s explanations weren’t enough for them to realize that the course my father chose for my mother was a long and uncomfortable one. This, in turn, was a learning experience for me.
eWinterbourne View was a hospital in Bristol that treated people with leaning difficulties and autism. Terry Bryan , a 35 year experienced nurse turned to the BBC Panorama programme after his complaints to the management and The CQC were ignored. An undercover reporter took a job there as a support worker, first he had training to show him how to reduce the chance of them getting violent and posing a risk to themselves. The message was all other options should be explored before resorting to holding someone down. During the reporters first days there he found that some of the staff ,as a first resort restrained the patients.
After different nurses had went in and tried working with this patient I went in. After entering the room I introduced myself to the patient and got straight to the point. I informed the patient that medicine could not be left at bedside it was against the hospital policy. Also I explained that the only medicines administered to him were the ones ordered by his doctor; and some medications that the doctor ordered was multiple dose. I discussed with the patient also that some medicine is not as effective when not taken all at the same time.
Describing the potential effects of discriminatory practice in a health and social care setting I am a partially sighted person and have certain disabilities, such as I suffer from sciatica and back problems. I regularly have to visit my doctor for check-ups and medication. There was one time when I decided I needed to make an appointment to see the doctor at my local health centre and when I approached the receptionist on the desk, the receptionist was very abrupt and unhelpful, I explained my current medical conditions and the troubles I was having but she wouldn’t listen or try to help me in anyway. I feel the receptionist was very unprofessional and wasn’t doing the job she was supposed to be doing. I feel that I have been treat unfairly and due to my current problems I should have been able to have the appointment I needed and also to have been spoken to in an appropriate manner.
Communication is important for provision of appropriate care by nurses. Over the past few years, media reports have suggested that nurses lacked compassion. I was placed at a rehabilitation hostel for people with mental health problems and I noticed that some junior nurses did not have assertive skills to deal with ‘difficult’ patients. I had an opportunity to witness a new admission and was surprised at how some nurses were only concerned about patients’ medical symptoms without listening to underlying causes of their illnesses. Consequently, I decided to focus my discussion on these three communication skills; compassion, assertiveness and listening skills.
One hand I feel that if researchers were to use a tissue sample that they had obtained from me to try and further the collective medical knowledge I wouldn't have an issue with that as long as my privacy was maintained. I have been in the hospital multiple times in my life. One of these visits I was in need of surgery and the doctors needed multiple blood samples. Now I don't know if my doctor's ever used those samples for anything other than for testing purposes and I honestly don't care. As long as, again, my privacy is maintained and that I would be notified if there were any abnormalities then I feel that the doctors are fulfilling their moral obligation to their patient.