Essay On Nursing Observation

Description: For my last journal entry, even though I want to summarize my entire clinical experience over the two semesters, I want to focus on my observation experience which I completed in the OR two Mondays ago. For my observation, I went down to the day surgery window and was brought out back to change into different scrubs. Then I was introduced to the charge nurse for the day, who was more than excited to have me observing in the OR that day. I was given the choice of seeing two surgeries that are interesting or seeing one surgery that the nurse seemed extremely interested in. Instead of seeing a knee arthroplasty and a hip replacement, I chose to go with the surgery the nurse was very interested in. The surgery I saw was a robotic prostatectomy with bilateral lymph node tissue dissection and it was very interesting. I met the patient before they were brought to surgery and then followed the anesthesiologist while they did their speech on what to expect before and after the surgery. Then the anesthesiologist helped a nurse wheel the patient down to surgery and I followed behind. Once in the OR, I met the

I have had both good and bad observation experiences throughout clinical, so I was not as nervous about observing the OR as I was about observing the IV team. The surgeon I observed perform the surgery was excited to have me there and made sure I knew what was going on and answered any questions I had. The circulating nurse and her trainee, along with the anesthesiologist, were excited to have me there as well and encouraged me to get closer to see the surgery or ask questions. I felt very welcome in the OR room and was even warmly welcomed when I met the patient who would be receiving the surgery. Being in a new space and working with new people always makes me nervous, however once I met everyone on the pre-operative unit and on the OR staff, I felt right at home and all my nervous jitters