During the summer of 2017, I will be taking two courses in Anatomy and Physiology and also General Chemistry II lab. The goal with these courses is to further build my foundation in science, and to also improve my overall GPA. The mistakes I made during the first year of school have decreased my GPA, and so I hope that by taking these courses, and doing well, that my GPA will reflect more of the student I truly am. I have shadowed several neurosurgeries, and this experience was insightful. I watched complete disc replacements, lumbar fusions, and cranial incisions. I was able to watch the anesthesiologist intubate the patient and prepare them for the procedure. The surgeon provided me with step-by-step instructions as he performed
The career I researched was a surgical assistant and while I’m in the surgical technologist program right now I’m going to continue my education and become a surgical assistant. A surgical assistant assist surgeons during surgery they perform duties such as tissue retraction, insertion of tubes and intravenous lines, closure of surgical wounds, perform preoperative and postoperative duties to facilitate patient care, apply dressings, and ensure that the are remains sterile. According to the U.S. bureau of labor statistics the future growth outlook for the surgical assistant is excellent with a job growth rate of 30% between 2012 and 2022. The educational requirements for a surgical assistant are first you have to become a certified surgical
I know that I want to have a career in the medical field, so to prepare for that I have taken many high school science classes, including biology, chemistry 1 and 2, and physics. I’ve also taken many math classes, English 101 and 102 though Grand Rapids Community College and heath classes through Grand Valley State University. These classes have helped prepare me for a medical degree by exposing me to math, science, and college level classes; all of which are particularly important when it comes to trying to receive a medical degree.
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation” (Charles F. Kettering). Correspondingly, the Bolsa Grande High School Council decided to vote unanimously to raise the GPA from 2.0 to 3.0. The council felt that students should focus more in school rather than participating in a sport or a club. The school council made the correct decision because it develops work habits, helps students go to better colleges, and prepares students for professional life.
Presently, my extracurricular and academic interests are combined in my two year Health Science class. The class provides real-life medical situations that I may come in contact with in the future. Like any health science class, we study the body, in both its’ functional and dysfunctional state. This survey class also includes an introduction to equipment, medical protocol, and ethical issues. A sense of teamwork guides our procedures. Next semester, I will study at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Ramstein High School’s Career Practicum program. After initial on-the-job application of classroom learning, we will work with patients, supervised by the hospital staff. Living so close to a hospital that services thousands of seriously injured patients every year provides opportunities that other students lack, even in their college programs.
Having the support and guidance in a graduate nurse program, will allow me to further improve my assessment and clinical skills. I have a strong passion for learning about anatomy and physiology, which I believe the peri-operative department is the perfect environment to expand this knowledge. I love that everyday is different in the peri-operative department. Finally, my last reason for wishing to begin my nursing journey in the peri-operative department is due to my aspirations of volunteering with Mercy Ships. I would love to volunteer with Mercy Ships as they make such a difference in developing countries by providing surgical and health care
People have elective surgeries as well as emergency surgeries every day. The medication needed for these surgeries is administered by an anesthesiologist. Anesthesiologists must make sure that their patient gets the proper care they need for pain management. Anesthesiology is one of the highest paying jobs on the market. Accordingly, the schooling needed to become this highly trained doctor requires a lengthy time investment. On average, a student has to be in school eleven years to fulfill an anesthesiology degree. Job projections forecast a promising future for those seeking employment in this field of study. Anesthesiologists have very important jobs for the well being of people.
This time last year, I was in AP Literature at Green Valley High School. Although I had already passed the Language AP test, Literature helped reinforce my writing and gave me the fourth English credit I needed to graduate. Ideas from both those years have merged together over time, however my second year proved to be less about a test for me. I learned about effective proportions where most of the paper should be argument rather than detail or evidence and how certain writing elements and literary devices can give writing more depth. Although I passed the AP tests both times, I still find myself at a lost when it comes to defining my argument with precision. A skill that has been useful most often is to “trust your pen;” I’ve found that
Everyday, people go through surgery and require a specialist that will monitor their surgery as well as give them what they need to be able to persevere the pain, which is exactly what anesthesiologists do. In order for the patients to be able to get into surgery and deal with the agonizing aches after the abscission, anesthesiologists have to give the sufferer the proper treatment before and after the surgery. Overall, anesthesiologists must be highly educated in both medicine and communication, they need to be able to give the patient the right amount of medicine as well as speak with the family of patients and other doctors to inform them all with what will be done during the surgery, and they need to be able to properly assist the surgeons during operations.
Osborn, K. S., Wraa, C. E., Watson, A. B., & Holleran, R. (2014). Medical-surgical nursing: preparation for practice (2nd ed.). Boston: Pearson.
This past week was my fourth full week on the medical/surgical floors, and while four west is still my primary unit, I had a unique opportunity to attend a school re-entry with the hem/onc child life specialist, Taryn, and the hem/onc art therapist, Emily. The school re-entry was for a 12-year-old male, who has recently finished treatment at Norton Children’s Hospital for Burkitt’s Lymphoma. This particular school re-entry was on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, and included a presentation and art activity with 130 seventh and eighth graders at a Catholic school in a higher socioeconomic status area of Louisville, Kentucky. For this program, I mainly observed and helped to pass out/complete/clean up the art activity, but I thought that this
As a medical surgical nurse you work with your patients before, during, and after surgery. Before surgery you want to explain the procedure to them and help prepare...
Sullivan, M. E., Trial, J., Baker, C., Inaba, K., Etcheverry, J., Nally, M., & Crookes, P. (2014). A framework for professionalism in surgery: What is important to medical students? The American Journal of Surgery, 207(2), 255-259. Retrieved from ProQuest.
I went to the operating room on March 23, 2016 for the Wilkes Community College Nursing Class of 2017 for observation. Another student and I were assigned to this unit from 7:30am-2:00pm. When we got their we changed into the operating room scrubs, placed a bonnet on our heads and placed booties over our shoes. I got to observe three different surgeries, two laparoscopic shoulder surgeries and one ankle surgery. While cleaning the surgical room for the next surgery, I got to communicate with the nurses and surgical team they explained the flow and equipment that was used in the operating room.
Although students were not allowed in the recovery unit, I was able to talk to one of the recovery nurses. I learned that a nurse’s duty of care includes monitoring the patient’s vital signs and level of consciousness, and maintaining airway patency. Assessing pain and the effectiveness of pain management is also necessary. Once patients are transferred to the surgical ward, the goal is to assist in the recovery process, as well as providing referral details and education on care required when the patient returns home (Hamlin, 2010).
During the SSM, I learned and practiced basic surgical skills such as knot-tying, basic surgical suturing, and IV cannulation, as well as more complex surgical skills such as ...