Reflection: Shadow Health Care

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Jarvis (2016) have emphasized that the health history of the person is indicative of that person’s perspective of health. In honesty, I had trouble interviewing Ms. Tina Jones in gathering her history of present illness on my first attempt in Shadow Health. As the interview progressed, my mind went blank because I could no longer think of what questions to ask. Working on a night shift definitely has disadvantages. One of such disadvantages is not being able to experience a new patient admission process. The majority part of the admission is done during the day or early part of the evening shift when the patient first arrived. I have to finished only the part of the admission that wasn’t done, such as edema measurement and Braden scale assessment.

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