To cap it all off, you have to pass a state licensing exam to officially be considered an MD and start practicing medicine in the real world. This amount of schooling is necessary because they need to be reliable and trustworthy for their patients. The most important skills out of the many needed in this career are communication and multitasking. As a doctor, you interact with patients and fellow doctors daily and are also thrown into hectic situations. Multi tasking is a much need skill because OBGYN’s are constantly on the move whether they are on call or are seeing patients all day in the office.
I have always be cognizant that my relationship with patients exists solely to meet their needs; not my own. That said, I practiced for many years in the home infusion and home health industries. The need to relate to patients and achieve optimal patient outcomes is less structured then in the hospital environment. When bringing a plan of care into the patient’s home setting, I have found that a nurse must address patient needs which are very diverse and holistic. In this context, I have met the patient’s needs in many innovative and sometimes unique ways.
Identify one area of nursing research that has improved patient outcomes. State the study and its impact on patient care. How have these findings changed your nursing practice? For many years nurse staffing ratio has continued to be a major problem. Nurses are given assignments based on the number of staff present and not on the acuity of the patient therefore affecting the patient’s outcome.
I feel that this clinical really prepared me to be a Registered Nurse on my own, and gave me the confidence to be able to do so. Experiences On my first day in the ED, I met my preceptor in the locker room and sat through huddle. After huddle, I expected to have a small tour or introduction period, but that never happened. Immediately, we were set to work with a new patient who had severely broken her arm in three places. The doctor and surgeon had already been in the room and had ordered pain medication for the patient; Morphine and Valium with Phenergan.
Nursing Roles and Values 724.7.3-01-08 Assignment 3 Delegation is paramount in the practice of every nurse. There is simply to many patients to take care of, and not enough nurses to take care of them. Every nurse must be able to practice the art of delegation, in order to provide their patients with high quality care; in spite of being constantly short staffed. In this paper you will be provided with a supported, and applicable overview of how the professional nurse can promote delegation throughout each case. Explaining to the members of the interdisciplinary team the importance of how interdisciplinary care has been proven to improve overall care for patients(McHugh et al., 1996), and how each patient needs to receive
From the ill-perceived role of the nurse performing mundane tasks for physicians more than half a century ago, the establishment of advanced practice nursing as a distinct pillar in the health care system to the hybridization of the practice of both nursing and medicine as a nurse practitioner to address primary care physician shortages, it is still to be determined what non-clinical roles may arise in the future health care system. More recently, the operations of the Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Board of Directors arose "in response to client care needs and to the health care delivery environment" (Spross, Hamric, Hall, Minarik, Sparacino & Stanley, 2004, p. 2). The CNL, an APN who is a generalist, works at the microsystems level (e.g. outpatient clinics, hospital units) and is concerned with such tasks as developing and implementing strategies for plans of care at the preventive level, coordination of care and other administrative-related
After working here for about a year one day one of my female coworkers came up to me and said, “You’re going to be a really awesome nurse.” I hadn’t thought much about going into nursing because I always thought of it as a feminine career path. I’ve looked into it extensively and there are so many options in the nursing field that it would literally take all day to explain them all. Here I am in school now. I finally know what I want to do with my life and I am motivated to reach my final goal. I’m going to be a nurse.
For the past two years, I was working with developmentally disabled and substance abuse population. Most of the time, I was delivering direct patient’s care and had limited time to review policies and procedures of the organization. I identified a few policies with which I did not agree. At that moment of reviewing those regulations I knew that a change must be made, however I was also aware that with my title there wasn’t much I could have done. The feeling of being unable to make a difference in people’s life encouraged me to continue my nursing education in order to influence life those in need.
Registered Nurses Growing up I was undecided regarding the career that I wanted to pursue. As I got older and was in high school I realized that I wanted to have a career in the medical field. Being a nurse interests me because it requires the study of the human body along with other great opportunities that nurses have in this career. I want to become a nurse because I like being able to help those who are in need. I started researching my career in the 10th grade.
However, before you are seen by a doctor, you would probably be seen by a nurse first. To me nurses play a huge role in the medical field because often they are the first health-care professional a patient sees. Becoming a nurse is my dream profession. It is profession that allows me to work hands on and express genuine affections towards those that are in need of medical attention. Growing up, I had my mother to look up to.