Importance Of Personal Clinical, Education And Personal Experience In Nursing

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Today, there is a stronger push for diploma and associate degree nurses (ADN) to acquire their BSN degrees than ever before. The first ever recommendation for nurses to acquire advance education for the best interest of the patient population, was suggested by the American Nurses Association, Institute of Medicine and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. For the purpose of this, I will describe personal clinical, education and personal experience that shows a change of the self-perceived confidence in my nursing practice based on the nine AACN baccalaureate essentials. The experiences

all have one common problem that they face and that is hospital acquired infection. One in particular that I am most familiar with in the short amount of time that I have been practicing in hospital is catheter-associated urinary tract (CAUTI) and surgical site infections. According Knudson (2014), a urinary tract infection is an infection of any part of the urinary system which includes the kidneys, ureter, urethra, and bladder. In the case of CAUTI, bacteria travels along the urinary catheter into the urinary tract and proceeds to the kidneys. In 2012, they accounted for approximately 54,000 CAUTI cases in the US, up 3% from 2009 (pg. C1). When I began my nurse residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, inserting catheters was a common skill set that you learn and continue to perform throughout the day. Since then, I have moved on to the operating room at Sibley Hospital, which I noticed differences in the handling and the insertion of Foleys amongst the nurses from both facilities. Often times I would see Foleys not hung at the bed frame and simply laid on the flow. One of the two facilities staff traveling nurses who I’ve seen not use all the components in the Foley kit such as the wipe packaged for cleaning before the sterile prep. After seeing so many inconsistencies, I joined the LEAN project group at my current facility to address this pertinent issue. The LEAN project group is often a group from each specialty

At that time, I acquired a basic understanding of standard healthcare terminology. Every pertinent information regarding a patient could be easily accessed from anywhere in the hospital and by any healthcare discipline providing care for that patient without having to combat with multiple papers and wait after each individual who was reviewing the chart. It wasn’t until I took NURS 315 Information Technology in Nursing and Health Care that I understood the importance of informatics in growing healthcare population. Informatics allows for clinical information to be readily available and help increase knowledge via use of that information. This information can serve to eliminate clinical errors in medication administration, due to illegible handwriting, billing, and duplicate services. I have worked with EMR systems such as Cerner, EPIC, and Practice