Doctors Appointments Let's start off by saying I hate needles and I hate doctor offices yet I want to be in the medical field. My physical didn't go so great because they told me I was getting a shot. Not only did i cry my soul out but I had to get stabbed with the death needle twice. The morning of my appointment I was already dreading it. Nothing was going right not only did I wake up late but i dressed in sweats a t shirt and a lopsided bun when it was about ninety degrees outside. I had a reputation to uphold so that was social suicide and you can only imagine how many laughs in the hallways i got. I was nervous the whole day my hands were very clammy and sticky I was as white as Edward Cullen. My friends would ask me what was wrong but all i could think about is my fear of needles. I was on the edge the whole day and even the doors closing would startle me. When i say fear I'm deathly afraid of shots, I will throw a tantrum worse than my five year old brother and I will cry so loud everyone will go deaf, but i'm eighteen I swear I am. …show more content…
Stealing a freshman's bike was a choice but there were no freshman in sight and my mom honked to let me know she was there. I made up so many excuses from I have a lot of homework to my goldfish is depressed, I don't have a goldfish. It was a car ride I describe as a car ride to
It was intimidating and a bit scary, but instinctively I tried to help the patient and his family in any manner I could. As the day progressed, I had less anxiety when administering medications to the patient, and I felt more at ease with checking on the patient and his family to ensure they had no unmet needs. Because of our initial encounter with the doorway assessment, providing patient care was not as frightening as past first days of clinical have been. This resulted in a quite interesting post clinical conference where every student had something interesting to discuss regarding the patients they cared
Before I had started my work experience, I was quite worried I might pass out while viewing the surgeries or that I will not be able to stand watching blood work being done, but surprisingly, I learned I was a not really affected by the surgeries or blood work, although on the first day I got a bit queasy watching the blood work. Throughout the week, I had noticed I had increasingly gotten better and better and by the end of the week I was able to view everything without feeling dizzy. Also, I have learned that I am quite a quick learner and was able to quickly get into the routine at the hospital, as well as, adapt to changes that were often occurring and take on new tasks. I was genuinely surprised that I had learned quite a bit about myself through this
Oddly enough, I liked giving obese, old patients bed baths, helping them to the bathroom, and cleaning their bed pans. But, don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t exactly what I loved doing, but I knew it was part of the job, and I willingly did the dirty work. By the end of my junior year, I knew I loved the hospital environment and wanted to eventually work there; however, I just didn’t know in what capacity. Fortunately, during a slow day in my last semester of shadowing, a nurse asked me if I would like to see a surgery being performed. I quickly accepted the offer, and I got to watch a surgeon perform an eye lift procedure. This experience, one of the most interesting I had ever witnessed, made me realize the area of the hospital that interested me most, the operating room. More specifically, I wanted to be an orthopedic surgeon. The path to become an orthopedic surgeon is not a quick nor easy one. To become an orthopedic surgeon, one must first be accepted into medical school, graduate medical school, and then complete post medical school requirements such as residency and
As Mr. Rosen is waiting for the doctor to come evaluate him, I hand him a packet that has the medical office policy and procedures for the facility.
In the beginning of clinical I was very nervous and didn’t know what to expect. Now looking back I can see how much I have grown. I was nervous just doing patient care and I had...
According to the Oxford Dictionary, a phobia is an extreme or irrational fear towards something. Phobias are normally compared to ‘fears’. Usually fear is a normal part of life, as there are many things in life that seem to cause persons a slight sense of irritability, such as, insects, thieves, or even having operations. It is theorized that most people have a certain level of ‘sensible’ anxiety when faced with the vision of a medical treatment, especially when it might be ‘invasive’. Most humans show a tendency to be squeamish at the sight of blood, for instance. Phobias are naturally a very common phenomenon. Most, if not all persons have been affected by a phobia at some point in their lifetime. A phobia is a disorder in which the body reacts in the same way an individual is experiencing feelings of fear, however, in this case the ‘fight or flight’ mentally is normally inappropriate. Most people suffer from a fear of medical procedures. There are many different forms of this type of fear. Some of these forms may include the fear of surgery, the fear of dental work, the fear of needles and even iatrophobia (the fear of doctors). Most times, these fears are often overlooked; however, it has been studied and proven than if a patient has one of these fears to the extreme it could be immensely damaging to their health, especially physiologically. However, the fear of any medical procedure does not have to be necessarily physically in or surrounding the doctor’s office. There are fears that could also limit you from going to the physician, such as embarrassment. For instance, there are many men who would never engage a doctor about the illness that seems to be troubling them, such as impotency. Most men regard this as a sign that t...
Describe what you have learned from the variety of health, wellness or patient-centered encounters you have observed or participated in and how this has shaped or impacted your interest in pursuing education toward being a PA. Through a variety of health, wellness and patient centered encounters I have observed and participated in it has impacted my interest in pursuing education toward being a PA by gaining knowledge everyday about the PA profession. I have had a variety of shadowing opportunities through shadowing a jail nurse, public health nurse, Nurse Practioner of reproductive health, a sanitarian, a birth to three coordinator, medical doctor and lastly a physician assistant. I learned the most knowledge by shadowing a Physician Assistant.
"Selena Gibson" the nurse called out after opening the closed door. I stood up and quickly moved forward toward the nurse. Stepping through the door I was ask to turn to the right and go down the hallway. Walking down the long stretch dragging my feet along the way I was scared to find out what the doctor was going to say. Turning to the left the room looked impersonal and cold. I was asked to seat in the chair and wait till the doctor came in with the results.
About a month after I had got my license and winter had began to take its full affect, I was put in a difficult position. I could either drive to my friends house which was within a few miles, or stay home due to the recent coating of sleet on the roads. Of course, my mom prompted me to stay home. To me that was simply not an option
I have chosen to go into the medical field because I love to help people and make them feel better. I will be studying Biology and minoring in Psychology in Pre medicine. There are many other jobs that help people out, like social workers, teachers, and police force. Those are great jobs but the medical field gives a person a certain kind of adrenalin. I was in a car accident which my car was rolled into a field, three feet from hitting a tree. I
I was taken into the operating room where I seen five or six nurses and two of them had strange objects in their hands. I was told to lay back on these cold white sheets; when I looked up I saw the most intense light ever! After looking at the light for a minute it almost blinded me. One of the nurses put a tube in my nose, yet I quickly tugged it out because it was a foreign object to me. I was informed it would help me breath while the doctors were performing the surgery. The anesthesiologist gave me anesthesia, a medicine that is induced before surgical operations so you will have insensitivity to pain. The entire surgery took about one hour to
For my first clinical observation, I was assigned to the trauma unit and it was not what I expected it to be. I thought the trauma unit would be fast pace and there would be nurses and doctors rushing everywhere, however, I did not see any of that. Instead, it was quite peaceful and this was probably because my clinical observation was from 10-12 p.m. When I met up with my senior nurse, she showed me a binder that contained all of her patients’ diagnoses, lab reports, treatments, and vital signs, which was a lot to take in because most of the terms she used, I had no idea what they were. After looking at the reports, she showed me a patient who had gunshot wounds on his back and abdomen. I could tell he was in a lot of pain by the tone of
It was Tuesday and the day was draining away. I wanted to go buy new hair dye, but I knew it was too late. Careless, I got money from my piggy bank and asked my little sister Natalie to come along. I usually go out by myself but I decided to take her to feel more safe. Since my parents were not home yet I had to make this trip quick, so we took the bus.
So, I told my doctor I wanted to be induced. After all, my due date was only two weeks away and only five percent of women give birth on the day determined by their doctors. When I was finally there, I looked at the outside, the hospital was set in a suburban – like area, and when I went inside the building, I was in a welcoming ultramodern facility. I went straight to the labor and delivery section where they said my doctor had gone out of town; nobody believed that I was supposed to be induced that day. It took them like 15 minutes to confirm what I had told them, to finally decide to take me to a room to connect all kinds of tubes to my body. I went into the room; it looked very comfortable, but it was freezing. I lay on the typical hospital bed, one of those that make sleeping and resting easier.
...o our red van not saying a word to me. On the drive home she gave me my punishment. The punishment was that I was to be grounded for an entire month, and reap the consequences with the law. I ended up sitting in my house for the first month of summer and losing two-hundred and eighty dollars, which was my fine for stealing.