Reflective Essay On Clinical Experience

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Recommended: Maintaining a safe environment reflects a level of compassion and vigilance for patient welfare that is as important as any other aspect of competent health care

So far, junior year has been off to a fast-paced but great start. Between both Med-Surg and Maternity, along with both clinicals, I am extremely excited to learn and experience so many new things, hopefully even figuring out what I want my specialty to be when I graduate from nursing school. Over the past three weeks, I have gotten to see what it is like to work in a fast-paced work environment, which is represented by non-other than Elliot Hospital. Even though the 45-minute drive can be awful in the mornings, I am truly grateful I was put at a clinical site such as the Elliot because I feel there are many learning experiences located throughout the hospital itself. Elliot Hospital is a very well-known hospital in New Hampshire, which means …show more content…

I think I was so quick to any assumptions I had because the patient was on contact precautions: now I have never worked with a patient who was on any type of precautions other than standard precautions (but essentially everyone is on standard precautions) and looking back I believe I was more nervous and concerned about the precautions aspect that I allowed myself to make an assumption about my patient before I had really gotten to know them. After morning rounds and meeting with my head nurse, I got to talking and doing my assessment on my patient and I came to find out my patient is one of the nicest people I have ever talked to in a hospital setting. Looking back on the situation I am appalled I judged them so fast: that doesn’t even represent who I am as a person at all. This was definitely a learning moment for me personally and it caused me to learn something about myself, which in some instances can be just as important as learning a new skill or nursing …show more content…

The patient was very stable during the day and was scheduled for both a PICC insertion and a TEE, or trans esophageal echocardiogram. I had no idea what a TEE was and how it would be conducted, but I knew once I got home I would research more about a TEE. We arrived at the Cath lab early, since the team was waiting for the nurse anesthesiologist and the doctor because the patient was not supposed to get the TEE until later in the afternoon. Once the doctor and anesthesiologist arrived things started to get hectic: not only was there a doctor, nurse anesthesiologist, nurse, floating nurse, and a tech working the machine which captured the images in a tiny patient room in the Cath lab, we were also trying to fit two students into the mixture as well. This was fine for a short amount of time until I realized there was no good place for me to stand to be able to get a clear view of everything. I think having students go to everything they can is great, but in this instance I wish I was the only student that had gone because I feel as though I missed out on seeing the full procedure and truly understanding what was happening. This is partially why I went home and researched more about the procedure and pictures taken: I was very well able to see the probe being inserted

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