My role today for the Home Health Simulation was an actress portraying a depressed mother of 5, amongst those was my pregnant teenage daughter played by Elizabeth. When the students first entered the home they failed to mention what their overall purpose for the visit was, it would have been nice to start off explaining what is was they were there to do. This made it a little awkward I wasn’t sure if I should ask if they wanted a tour of the home or if I should just continue what I was doing. So I went about my morning, I went in the kitchen to get the baby her antibiotics, to my surprise all 3 had followed me into the kitchen where I felt a little cornered. They were all quick to offer advice on med administration, Elizabeth felt like they
In the beginning of fall of 2016, I got a job as a medical assistant. It’s long process to get this sort of job, at least with the University of Utah so when I finally went through the orientation, lab training, computer training, and community clinics I got to work and realized there was, even more, training. Every clinic has its personal preferences and rules, so I had to start from scratch with the training I already had. As soon as I got therenoticeI was a given a quick tour of the clinic and given all the rules, passwords and regulations. It was already too much to handle, but I was memorizing as much as I could. I can’t always function under pressure, but I tried not to let my nerves get to me.
20. What do I do if my child, spouse, coworker, next-door neighbor or friend comes to my department when it’s my turn to arrive, admit, transfer, place an order, discharge, see, treat, code, bill, do a quality review, infection control consult, or do a data extraction on a patient?
I prefer to work closely with patients and build that connection with them.” This answer didn’t really shock me all that much, I think its really common for people to go for pre med and then find/figure out that they wont be able to really establish and connect well with the patients. My next question was simple and asked, “Was it your dream to always become a nurse, and did anyone have an influence on your decision?” Emily explained that she has always wanted to work in the medical field, but didn’t really know which area or career path until college. She also went on to say that both her mother and sister are nurses, but her mother had the most impact because Emily was able to be in the hospital a lot during high school and started volunteering when she was young. Knowing Emily’s background it doesn’t surprise me that she went for nursing, there is clearly a family history of it. Also, with Emily volunteering at a young age she was really exposed to the hospital setting which would help her choose a career. I just got a volunteer position at St. Paul Children’s Hospital which I am very excited for because I will be able to experience the hospital setting and really see why Emily is so excited about nursing. My last question was, “What made you want to work with
The experience that I had in simulation was great. I expected it to be very different opposite of what I thought. I was nervous and anxious when simulation day was coming up. The scenarios that were performed taught me a lot of things and prepared me in the future nursing career. What I thought I did well is being clients advocate. In the scenario with Henry he had COPD and was having shortness of breath during the simulation. I stood there by him while my colleagues were preparing medications for him. I have learned that we as nurses cannot leave our client unattended especially when client is having SOB and is in distress. It is very important to put your client’s priorities first.
In a research article by Bradley et al. (2013), students were asked to adopt the role of occupational therapy students and perform simulation activities for two consecutive days. However, only two students able to take the occupational therapist role while others observed. The students who undertook the occupational therapist role expressed that the experience provided a fully immersive simulated experience and were challenged to think quickly which reflected real clinical acute care experience (Bradley et al., 2013). Their type of simulation involved human beings as the patients and the teachers took on this role. This study provided more of a personal experience and a debriefing after the simulation to determine the pros and cons of simulation
In this essay I am going to investigate whether health is easily defined as the absence of disease or physical injury. According to Health psychology (2009) ‘World Health Organisation defined health as a complete state of physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’. In order to achieve good physical a nutrition diet is needed, healthy BMI, rest and adequate physical exercise is needed.
For this section of presentations, I learned about health professional jobs that focused on behavior health. This section’s class presentations focused on community needs, substance use disorders, and nursing simulation learning program. Each presentation was educational and interesting to learn about. I enjoyed learning about the simulation learning center and how the student nurses learn and engage in nursing school.
Overall today was extremely busy. There was a total of 21 patients seeking therapy. For each patient that was seen throughout the day, I prepared hot packs and ice packs and monitored them throughout each exercise session. Aside from supervising patients, I was able to start my Needs assessment with patients. I selected 8 patients based on their age and frequency of visit, in order to gather accurate and efficient information overtime. I was able to interview patients during their 8 minutes hot pack session, and then I introduced myself and stated the purpose of this study/intervention. Each patient was very engaged and responded to each question appropriately. I did not hand out brochures on this day because I felt it would be beneficial to
At the same time of this occurrence there were other things that went on pertaining to transference and counter transference. The Intern and I definitely had some type of strong transference and counter transference going on. There was a clash of personalities between the intern and me. We totally did not get along. I felt uneasy and that she did not want me there in the room with her. Why? I thought that maybe she felt challenged. I don’t know, but I felt I asked the patient questions that she forgot to ask. I also gave her my opinion about treatment principle, which I do not think she appreciated. With my previous interns, I was very much part of the intake and treatment process. The interns and I would ask questions. If one forgo...
On the second week of my placement, I was asked to bed-bath an 85 year male old patient in my bay, in the ward and get him ready for breakfast. This patient had, had a bowel surgery and as a result he had a stoma bag on. This patient was diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) IN 2010, but his condition had grown worse over the years. IBD mainly refers to Ulcerative Colitis (UC) and Crohns disease (CD). However, this patient had Crohns disease. I was asked to bed-bath him by my mentor while she was observing me as she had taught me how to assist patients with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL) which are considered to be important.
Luckily, our scenario was something that I have encountered at my CVS Pharmacy back home. I thought about how my pharmacist handled the exact same situation and mimicked her actions. When performing the activity, I thought about what excuses or ideas can the patient toss at us and how can we navigate through those excuses. Overall, I thought the team performed really well under the pressure and came up with solid ideas and plans.
My assigned patient was very easy to take care of and required very minimum attention and care due to the patient age, independency and constant family support. However, the patient was very collaborative at time of assessment and medication. The fact the patient was able to provide his own personal hygiene and was ready to be discharged made our interaction shorter; however, it is always nice to see patients feeling better and able to go home and try to continue with their own routines and family relationship. On the other hand the fact that my patient was getting discharge allow me to be a little more involve with other patients on the unit and assist my classmate with their patients. The fact that Friday was my last at Children’s Hospital make me think on how much I enjoyed the rotation and work with children, it has been definitely a great experience that make me considered pediatric as a possible place of work and a field that seems very tentative as a possible route to
Now it was the middle of January and Michelle comes up to me while we are sitting on the wall and she looks very unhappy. Joyce had not driven us to school that today because of a doctor’s appointment but I had not thought anything of it. I could tell she was unhappy although she had not said a word. Since it was a Tuesday and I was in uniform. I really was not supposed to be smoking but I was any way. I offered Michelle a smoke because I thought it would calm her down but she did not take it. That was when I knew that there was something definitely wrong with her.
My role is to train and license perspective foster parents. The training I facilitated is called Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting, or MAPP, which all interested candidates must complete as part of the certification process. The MAPP training is facilitated once a week for three hours, which equates to a total of thirty hours. During those ten weeks, I tend to develop a very close report with at least one of the participants. In my last MAPP training, for instance, I became very close with a 45 years-old Dominican woman whose modified name is Maria Perez. The connection I developed with Maria was different than the ones I have established in the past with other perspective foster parents. I attribute this, in part, to the fact that Maria and I share the same ethnic background. During one of the training sessions, Maria shared that her main motivation to become a foster parent is because she is unable to biologically conceive. This made me develop deep empathy for Maria as I have experienced the feelings of loss that come with infertility in my family. Maria and I used to talk almost at the end of each meeting. During one of our conversations, Maria expressed to be grateful with the knowledge she had acquired from the training and our conversations. In our last session, like usual, Maria came to me after class. However, this time her approach was
Luckily, I am very comfortable with patients, which made providing care very easy. I was not afraid to go into other patient’s rooms if they rang for help. I would try my best to help the patients; however, if I needed help I was not afraid to ask a fellow student or nurse on the staff. It is very important to be able to talk to patients and work as a team with fellow coworkers as it made the job easier. On the other hand, I need to go over mother and baby assessments to become more familiar with both. I was able to complete the assessments; I now need to do so in a timelier manner while ensuring I do not forget any key areas. Lastly, it is vital that I continue to go over patient teaching prior to clinical. Being comfortable with the patients made the teaching easier, though I need to become more familiar with all the material that needs to be taught.