Nursing Home Journal Report

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Journal 1 Today was our first day at the nursing home, and wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. My resident is in room number 6 bed 2. There is a do not resuscitate is place for her, she is a very sweet lady that doesn't need help with a lot of things such as eating. Showers are only one Wednesdays and Saturdays today I gave her a bed bath. Starting with her top half everything looked fine and normal until I started peri-care. As I'm washing her we talked about her Thanksgiving and family. She told me she has a daughter and 3 grandsons which includes a pair of twins that are 7. Anyways her legs are contracted so try to wipe the peri area was a little harder. I also notice she had a cover on decubitus ulcer I think. The cna Shamoy helped me along the way. The resident could reposition by herself which helped me also. …show more content…

For breakfast she ate waffles, grits with 5 sugars, eggs, and bacon but she didn't need help with her feeding. As my resident was eating her breakfast, I went to help Sariah with her resident in room number 6. I helped make her bed while she at breakfast in the kitchen and then we brought her in the room to brushed her teeth. Once we finished with her resident everything was good. My resident finished her breakfast, so we made an occupied bed. The sheets didn't fit properly on her bed we struggled a little but eventually we got everything figured

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