Clinical Activities Essay

As part of my clinical experience at St. Joseph unit, I had an opportunity to work with my classmate, Kingly and Dat. Dat was a very kind and efficient nursing assistant and I felt fortunate to have had the chance to work with and learn from him. Our day together seemed as though it was typical for the residence. The first resident was Ms. Nancy; she is in room no. 220A. My duty gave her breakfast and feed her in morning. Upon waking Ms. Nancy I respected her privacy by always knocking before I entered the room and asking permission to enter. I have introduced myself and followed standard precaution by washing my hands before start any procedures. I tried to talk to her while I was feeding her. I tried to wake her up before the breakfast is over. She only ate 35% of her meal. Then, Dat showed me how to use a full sling mechanical lift to move Ms. Nancy to shower chair and show me how to use shower chair while showering Ms. Nancy. After finishing

This week for clinical I was doing my first day on the surgical floor for this semester’s placement. I was able to begin to understand how the surgical floor works and how a normal day on the floor will look like.

I arrived at clinical 0630 and picked up patient information the morning of. I reviewed all assigned diagnoses, medications, labs, and orders with my assigned students, and we discussed our plan for the day. We both took report from the patient's nurse and then Elizabeth presented at preconference. Kala shadowed the Nurse Lead and I helped Elizabeth with brief changes, pericare, and vital signs. I continued to check on both Elizabeth and Kala throughout the day. Last, lunch and then post-conferance.

This department is a branch of the court system used in assessing clients that have been arrested for DUI, Domestic Violence (1st time offenders), probation violation or placed on home detention to attend specific court appointed hours of diversion programs, substance abuse education and/or training (alcohol or drugs), groups, or individual counseling as a positive means of rehabilitation in lieu of substantial jail time.

My team lead day started before 6am on Wednesday October 26, 2016 at Tristar Skyline Hospital on the 6th floor GI/GU with Mrs. Bell as my clinical instructor. I met with the Nurse Leader on the floor and with her patient suggestions as well as reviewing the patients charts in the computer I could assign my students two patients each for the day of care. Once all my team members had arrived for the day we began in the conference room with an inspirational prayer for the day to go out and provide excellent care to our patients. Jeannette and I discussed the rooms that the group was assigned to for the day and we reviewed which patients were on accuchecks and or telemetry and discussed our game plan for the day. My team members started reviewing their patients charts to be ready to meet their nurses and receive report on their patients. Jeanette began vitals and I spoke with both

First of all i would like to say that when i first arrived i was kind of nervous butexcited at the same time ireally did enjoy my experience on my clinical field shift so anyways when i first arrived we introduced ourselves to each other then we did a walk around the ambulance making sure the lights, signals, and etc. was working properly then the EMT took me inside the ambulance to give me a breaf overview of all the supplies and equiptment that is stored in the back of the ambulance soon after that the paramedic arrived so therefore we proceeded to start our shift

After reading this case study, this assignment will focus on the appropriate assessment and management that should be undertaken by paramedics to give this patient the best possible care. This will be achieved by following the five key stages of patient assessment from Pilbery et al. (2013, pp. 114–239). This will consist of the Scene management, primary assessment, History taking, Secondary assessment and reassessment of the patient. Following this, the patient’s presenting complaint would be managed according to the findings and relevant guidelines.

My fascination of both the biological and chemical elements of the human body has led to my aspiration of becoming a doctor. I have enjoyed the discovery of new elements in my AS syllabus, from learning about the cardiovascular system to the placebo effect in drug testing. Reading a book called Sick Notes by Tony Copperfield entails an account of his daily life in his profession as a General Practitioner. I was able to see how the science in the syllabus was used in the application of General Practice. Through my work experience I understood that the GP’s job was not just based on being a general specialist but also the lives of the people around him.

“Sir” a nurse whispered to me, “you’re covered in blood, let me help you get cleaned up as you’re scaring some of the other patients.” Looking into the mirror, my 18-year-old self was shocked at what was reflected back. 30 minutes prior, while working on a construction site, my finger had an unfortunate meeting with a saw blade. After cutting my finger, the spinning blade had spattered my body, head to toe, in blood. I was terrified I would lose my finger, however, working in the ER that day, was a highly skilled family medicine practitioner who was able to repair my finger to its full functionality. Although this experience had an immediate impact on me, it would be years before I would realize just how much the physician’s knowledge,

Our clinicals at Cadbury at Lewes is quickly approaching an end and we are still learning new things each day. Everyday we do something new and so another skill is checked off. Yesterday, we got numerous things done, it was a very busy day.

After reviewing the literature, discuss the evidence regarding what in-hospital practices may impact on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding. Include in your discussion the role of the midwife.

I am extremely excited to begin my preceptorship on the Orthopedic floor at UPMC Presby. I am confident that this clinical opportunity will help me gain confidence and competency before graduation. I am unsure what to expect during this rotation. However, I would like to be pushed out of my comfort zone and forced to experience a new environment. I believe that challenging environments help facilitate the best possible growth in students, especially in the clinical setting.

My day started at 7am at the hospital where we had our morning meeting at the conference with our professor who gave us our various task for the day. I was assign to Mr. H.E as my patient, whom I had a great time with. He is from Ghana, so that made our communication much easier, I felt more at ease with the patient when I interview him for my process recording, he was so willing to provide me with any information I needed and had a great sense of humor.

I will continue applying this outcome after I graduate. I will continue using the references available for making a clinical decision while providing consultation to the customer or any health care professionals. For example, if a pregnant lady comes to the pharmacy asking for a recommendation about the use of Zantac during pregnancy, I will make sure to confirm through the resources available that Zantac is pregnancy category B and therefore it is safe to use in pregnancy before providing any recommendation to her.

I realized I needed to be a role model for my group. I kept the clinical group busy so that there was minimal talking among the group, by engaging them to ask the nurses questions and keeping them busy. I felt nervous at first, I wasn’t sure what kind of questions to ask the nurses about the unit. One concern I do have is that I can be emotional when it comes to abuse and infants deaths. I was told in post conference a baby was handed over to Children Protective Services shortly after birth. This saddened me. I asked Professor Lugar how she handles a fetal demise, she gave me some advice. She told me if it happens we’ll take a time out and address our feelings. I felt reassured, hopefully this doesn’t happen to any of us. Although I know I’ll have to face these emotions one day. I just don’t think I want to face these emotions during