The Unforgettable Man
Being an orderly at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital was a fun job that required a strong heart. The hospital was a great place for me to experience the beauty of life and the unwanted death of humans. Throughout my year of employment at the Community Hospital, I was able to enjoy my work by interacting with many kinds of interesting patients. Without the hospital, I would have never imagined to be carrying on conversations with most of these people.
Aiding curses required many long exhilarating hours of work each day, but I loved experiencing the daily recovery of patients, in which I was able to be some part.
The night of August sixth became a different story. Just as my shift was coming to a normal close, a nurse's call light from one of the patient's rooms had illuminated. On one of my many repetitive walks down from the station to a patient's room, I had nothing else on my mind except for my evening plans with friends. I was extremely happy that this would surely be the last call light I would be answering that shift. As I entered the room, a crying relative came yelling at me. "He is going, something happened, do something, do something now!", demanded the distressed lady standing right at the bed side. I had seen this man before, although I had never spoken to him. I had know idea that he was not in a stable health.
"All right, all right," I replied in frustration, not knowing exactly what to do first. I looked at the 84 year old overweight male patient. He appeared very pale with his brown colored eyes half shut looking desperately at me for some sort of help. My mind was becoming blank, as I could not believe what I was about to experience. In training we were told this could happen from time, to time, but I never thought with me. We were also told how to deal with the death of a patient, although I never thought I would be a part in this type of situation. Regardless, I could not think straight. I could not move as I started to panic. I looked around before I noticed that I was the only help available. I became scared. I then all at once, ran out of the room, screaming for help to any one that would be able to hear me, "Code Blue, Code Blue, room
219 now!" Running back into the room, I stepped behind the bed and pulled the call light on again.
Identify at least one thing that went well during Mr. Londborg’s visit to the hospital?
"No," everything was coming out in just a groan of pain. I couldn't even move my head. All of a sudden I felt the world move from beneath me, and I felt warmth radiating off someone. I think Soda had given up and just decided to carry me to the car.
Tabitha walked onto the medical-surgical unit and received report on five patients in a record ten minutes before she began her busy shift Tuesday morning. The off going nurse managed to talk about the pet peeves and subjectives of each patient but was in a rush to make it to the monthly nursing practice council meeting and ‘everyone is doing fine’. Tabitha was unaware of the potential chaos that would ensue as her day progressed. As Tabitha walked into her patients’ rooms that morning to introduce herself, little did she know that Mrs. Jones is a high fall risk with no signage or alarms plugged in; Mr. Hill has fluids infusing at one hundred and fifty milliliters per hour with a history of congestive heart failure (CHF); and another patient is scheduled for surgery with no pre-operative paperwork or consents completed.
I wondered what it must be like for the patients to be there for days until I began to chat with the patients.
me. I loved you and I didn't love you at the very same moment, and I felt
sat down to rest and then heard sirens in the distance. We saw a blue and white
I trudged up and down the stairs, hauling the majority of my belongings behind me. As I rounded the corner, I saw her, my future roommate. Overwhelmed by panic, it took all my willpower not to turn around in that instant. Mustering
I took a deep breath and told myself it wasn’t going to be that bad and I could just use my instincts. As soon as I turned around the woman fainted, but luckily she was still breathing. She woke up about 30 seconds later and she asked what was going on, I tried to explain as much as I could, but I was just as lost as she was. I started asking all the appropriate questions and this time she had the energy to answer
my old friends who was sat in the far corner of the room with a rather
Certainly, I began with the goal getting of his vital sign and giving him a bed bath. Fortunately I had practice how to take a vital sign and giving a bed bath before my first clinical at the university skill lab and I had developed this confidence before my clinical tour. That day will be mastering the skill which I had just learned in manikins, and applying in real human with huge safety precaution. In between morning my instructor was giving me a brief before I getting to the patients room. From her experience she knew what kind of challenges and a patient behavior can be I face. As I proceeded to my own patient, I hit a roadblock that would give me a flat tire for the rest of the shift.
My eyes blurred for what seemed eternity leading me to the subconscious of my mind.
I felt shocked and a huge amount of anger mounting up inside me. I walked
got in the car, and went to visit her. Being as it was a very large hospital,
Patient Treatment in a Hospital The purpose of visiting a hospital was to find out how a hospital is
The second day I got to spend time in Same Day Surgery. Same Day Surgery is where they take care of patients before surgery and after surgery. While I was in Same Day Surgery I got to watch a patient's pre-op before he was about to get a pacemaker in. Throughout the whole pre-op several different nurses came in to deal with different things such as shaving the man's chest for where the incision would go, starting the IV, starting the fluids, and someone who asked all the questions of the man’s medical history and medications he was