My Nursing Education Report

Nine months ago today, my nursing education began on a sunny August day in a class room at Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids, MN. I knew going into nursing school was going to be tough, but I didn’t know how challenging and exciting at the same time nursing could be, and I learned more in the last nine months than in any other time in my young life. This writing will be a summary of my nursing education that began eight short months ago.

My clinical experience was pivotal in my nursing education. I learned the laws of HIPPAA and other pertinent laws that protect patient privacy, as well as overall importance of this subject. I also learned that safeguarding patient’s information is in important aspect in nursing, and patients have rights to view their

It is important to remember to take the patients wants and needs into consideration when trying to come up with the best action based on best evidence based practice. I quickly learned how to do a patient assessment and gather both the objective and subjective assessment findings to come up with an evidence based intervention(s) that is tailored to patient’s needs. My nursing skills improved tremendously as time went on, and I was able to detect atypical patient conditions, such low glucose levels, respiratory depressions, hypo and hypertensions, and host of other patient condition irregularities through assessments and report it to the attending nurse. Patient assessment is vital component in nursing. According to Journal of Nurses (Goldberg, Critical Thinking for Registered Nurses in Assessment, Angeles College of Nursing, 2008), assessment plays a critical role in nursing process and “will quickly alert the nurse to the patient’s current state of health, i.e. positive or negative the