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Clinical Experiences Journal
For ten minutes, I just held her hand while her eyes slowly opened and closed. The first patient I worked with was a woman in her seventies. She had had a whole host of physical problems. Her back went out; she had a hip replacement. Now it seemed she might have dementia or Alzheimer's Disease. The medication the head nurse gave her was strong and made the woman fall in and out of consciousness. I kept asking the head nurse what I could do, and all she would say was, "Just stay with her for now. I don't want her to get too confused." In addition to performing some of the basic duties like helping the woman get to the washroom, reach for the television remote control, eat, and take her medicine, the only thing really left for me to do was to hold her hand. I was glad to. It made me feel good, like I was actually giving her human touch, not just the clinical sterility of the hospital environment. I really appreciated my experiences working with the seniors because they enabled me to be calm and approach the job of nursing with compassion.
Not all my clinical experiences have been as peaceful as that, however, I worked with a woman who had been in and out of drug treatment facilities. She had been doing crack cocaine and heroine, and she had recently been admitted for a stab wound. She was emaciated, had track marks on her arm, and had poor personal hygiene when she was admitted. The patient was also belligerent. It was a very difficult case for the nurses on staff to deal with. Some became exasperated and lost their temper at her. The patient raised her voice a lot and drew attention to herself. I noticed how the nurses on staff handled the stressful situation. I reminded myself that I would also be encountering many situations like that, patients that were difficult to handle. I will try my best to be kind and patient with them. I really appreciated what I learned from all my clinical experiences because they illuminated what the day-to-day job of nursing is like: interacting with people and helping them feel better.
Clinical Experience Sunrise Clinical System Version 6.1 The Emergency Room: Hybrid System Meetings and Collaborative Care Councils Workflow of the EMR The KBC ( Knowledge Bas Charting) 3.4 Upgrade 6 The Role of the Nurse Informaticist Comprehensive Analysis of my Clinical Experience After completing 100 hours of practicum in informatics, the following will show the time at the site with my preceptor. The practicum took place at Franklin Hospital - North Shore Long Island. North Shore-LIJ which
Illness | STORIES OF ILLNESS | "Honoring the Stories of Illness" The "narrative medicine" approach has been garnering increasing popularity of late, in healthcare facilities and medical research centers. Columbia University's literary scholar and doctor, Rita Charon, came up with the concept in the course of the last ten years, along with her coworkers. The scholar has designed "Parallel Charts" and similar tools that caregivers can utilize for writing personally about patient-physician
traumatic experience with a patient a few years ago that still left me with a bad feeling. It was a hit-and-miss instance, and the fact that it was so, more closely being miss than hit, has stayed with me ever since. It was the first time that I ever came so breathtakingly close to being implicated in causing another to die. I hope it will be the last. As
Even as the United States struggles to cope with a critical nationwide shortage of nurses, existing nursing education programs are unable to meet the demand for unlicensed nursing students to gain real-world clinical experiences. In response, a growing number of vendors and nursing education programmers are integrating virtual clinical experiences in the nursing curriculum. Moreover, these virtual clinical experiences are especially effective because many young nursing students have grown up
Clinical ReviewRelationship with Preceptor and Fulfillment of Clinical GoalsMy experience in the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CPEP) has been significantly enriched by my relationship with my preceptor, who has been great in guiding and gradually increasing my responsibilities. In terms of fulfilling my clinical goals, I have made progress, particularly in understanding psychiatric conditions and patient care, but I recognize the need for further improvement in writing concise psychiatric notes
Clinical Theory Practice 21st Century Points: 50 Due: Day 7 Directions: •Reflect type theory (grand, mid-range, situation-specific) applicable clinical nursing practice 21st century. •Include rationale type theory chosen. Nursing theories are conditioned by practice and research, which clarify and modulate it for the final purpose of building a theoretical framework to guide general clinical practice (Meleis, 2011). The present paper is focused on presenting situation-specific theory as ideal for nursing clinical