Personal Narrative: My Patient Care Experience

The job required more talking and interactions with others. Discharge patients by pushing them thourgh the door in a wheelchair. Delievering and returning unneeded supplies. Newspaper pass out gave me a oppurtinity to interact with the patients. One lady told me her story and I was suprised on what she had been thorugh.

Day two clinicals. This day went so much smoother. I had the same two patient as the day before and one got discharged and I got a new patient. I feel like my second day I had an amazing relationship with my one patient. I got her to eat a little more that day because I knew what to talk to her about.

During a clinical shift, I would be responsible for providing care to patients with malignant hematological diseases, completing pertinent assessments and teaching skills, such as how to care for the mouth when experiencing mucositis and how to avoid infections. Self-reflection on Professional Practice All nurses registered in the general and extended classes are required to complete their self-Assessment every year. Self-Assessment is a self-directed, two-part process that results in a learning plan (CNO self assessment 2018). Through the process of self-assessment, you identify your areas of strength and learning needs (CNO

They started the 12 inch incision down the center of my chest. The moments after that I still don’t remember. We were at Cleveland Clinic, and today was the day of my open heart surgery. My Grandma, Grandpa, and my family, were all walking to the hospital. I could hear the buzzing of traffic, crazy cars honking at each other, and the premonition.

One of the experience i have that involved with the retrieval cue should be working as a medical assistant again after 1 year of working at somewhere else and doing different things. I've realize how much stuff that i have forgot after 1 year of not interacting with doing thing that a medical assistant need to do. As a medical assistant have a lot of different tasks that need to remember in order to assist the physician. however, the unclear memories that i had for interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs helped me a lot with finishing the first step of the situation. however, when the situation gets complicated such helping patients to fill out forms, this is one of the struggle that i had.

This year, I experienced both a personal and academic obstacle that correlate with one another. In January, I started the year long Medical Assisting program at my school. Prior to beginning this program, I was so excited to be getting a medically centered education, and learning about the field I wanted to expand my career in. After entering the program and learning that there is so much more to medicine than just taking care of patients, I began to lose my interest. This was shocking to me since, my whole life up until this year, I believed I was going to become an amazing medical doctor.

As a medical assistant, I could be asked to instruct a patient to give a mainstream specimen. As my job, I would make sure I had a sterile container with lid and label ready, antiseptic wipes and the patient record ready. I would call the patient back into the office, asking the patient her name and DOB. After verifying that, I would record the information on the label on the container. Then I would explain to the patient what she needs to do to get a clean accurate sample.

On March 24th, 2017, I was assigned to Medical-surgical unit of Arlington Memorial Hospital. My patient was 56-year-old woman, came to the hospital complain of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, and bloody diarrhea. She was admitted in the hospital two days ago. I had medication check off that day so I was responsible to give her medication.

On my second day of clinical rotation, I was assigned to postpartum floor. I followed my Nurse everywhere she went as well as observed what she was doing. Every patient she was taking care of, she let me do the assessment on the newborn and on the mother. She would show me how to check the fundus, the peripad for locia, and to check on any sign of bleeding.

My passion for healthcare lies with patient care. I enjoy taking care of patients and their family. I have chosen to become a family nurse practitioner because I can combine nursing and medicine to provide a higher level of care to my patients. As a nurse practitioner will be able to make an impact on my patient’s health through, health promotion, disease prevention, managing acute and chronic conditions and improving patient’s health (Wynne,

The idea I can’t stop thinking about is universal health coverage, or more realistically, a system of nationally funded public healthcare. From the time I was little, healthcare and medicine has been a part of my life. I chased my older sister around our house with bandaids, and I played school nurse with my mom in the care while we waited for my sister to finish school. Healthcare has shaped the way I think about people and the world.  I have followed our system of healthcare since I was old enough to understand politics.

Introduction I’ve been waiting since I’ve declared to be a nursing major to attend my very first clinical and finally last Saturday on October 17th I attended my first clinical at the Ludlowe Center for Health & Rehabilitation. It felt just like the first day of school! I woke up at 6 am and I felt anxious, sacred, and nervous, but also beyond excited to see what’s ahead of me for the morning. The clinical lasted from 7 am to 1pm, which at first seemed like a really long time but the excitement carried me away and it felt a lot shorter. The early morning was filled with activities that resembled what I have learned in my foundations class.

I really didn 't understand why the people in my life started to treat me way better now that they knew i had cancer. If only they had cared about me like this when i wasnt sick. I woke up this morning feeling perfectly fine, i mean after all i had been going to chemotherapy for the past 4 months, but I felt fine, even though i wasnt. " How do you feel? Do you need any of your medicines?"

My interest in critical care began when I was 10 years old when my father was admitted to the intensive care unit at Highland Hospital after undergoing a triple coronary bypass surgery. At that time I did not know the extent of my father’s condition. My family and I did not know what was going on. At times, my family and I were afraid because we did not know if my father would survive. My father was vulnerable, but my family was vulnerable as well.

As part of my clinical practicum, I attended few classroom lecture sessions by my preceptor as well as by guest lecturers. I attended few lab sessions in the fundamentals lab with semester-l students. I spend the first day with my preceptor observing her taking class on bedside assessment tool in the fundamentals lab. It was a very lively session with a great group interaction. The demonstration was done on the manikin.