Clinical Observation

After observing my mother in at the emergency room where she works, I finally understand the difficulty of being a doctor. Doctors constantly having to take care of anyone who walks through the door on a stretcher. Doctors have to try their best to feel empathetic towards everyone, putting themselves in other people’s shoes and trying to understand their situation. Whether they are good or bad, it doesn’t matter, the main goal is to stabilize the patients and make sure they receive the help they need. For example, last night walked in a psychopath who had killed 3 people, who also stabbed himself in attempt at suicide. By some miraculous move by God he didn’t die, only required immediate medical attention. As I watched my mother operate

Discuss a clinical experience in which you had to incorporate one or more learning styles such as visual, kinesthetic, and auditory. Explain the outcomes and how you created an effective learning experience.

During my first day of clinical, I encountered an issue that I believe is very significant. As a student nurse, our duty for this day was to follow our health care aide around the ward and assist in completing resident care. The resident required assistance in many of her daily tasks. The health care aide asked if I would perform one of those and do perineal care for her. I turned down her offer because I did not feel comfortable with my skill level. The resident had a bowel movement during the night. There was a significant odour in the room that overwhelmed me. I really wanted to leave the room because it was so unpleasant, but I stayed in the room so that the resident would not be embarrassed. This feeling of embarrassment, I assume,

I am a nursing student from Australian Catholic University. This role play is about the vital signs. Now, I am going to write a reflective write about the video of my role play of TPR which is a part of assignment and done by me and my other two friends.

Teacher stated individual was hollering at her and the students, throwing things, and hitting on others.

Client was observed coloring only one sheet and started moving around the office. Client switched chairs several times. He sat on the chair with wheels and started swirling it around for a period of time. He then sit backward with his knees on the seat while hold the back of the chair with his two hands and started rocking the chair back and forth for a period of time. He rocked the chair to the point that the chair's two wheels came off the floor. He moved the chair closer to the clinician's desk and picked up a pen and started throwing the pen on the table. He picked up the pen and threw it on the table about 6 times. Clinician eventually came to the client and asked him to sit on a chair without wheels. Client then crawled under his chair.

In the absence of serious neurological deficits and persistent non-radicular low back pain, sufficient evidence has not been established on whether or not surgery is useful.

Prior to my own experience with illness, neither the physical pain nor the crippling uncertainty illness could provide was ever very clear to me. In my first semester of college, I was diagnosed with viral meningitis. The time following my hospitalization was met with a setback in my academics accompanied with an unsettled feeling towards my health. Despite advisors encouraging me to change majors and career paths, I persevered through because I knew as a patient I had endured pain that was far greater from what I was experiencing in school. However two years later, this same feeling of uncertainty washed over me during a visit with my family doctor.

Nurses may experience difficulties in maintaining a professional role in clinical encounters with the parents. The nurses expressed that they have to be ethical and to remain professional in the clinical encounter with abused children and their parents. To remain professional, education, counseling and experience is always essential. Most of the time it is hard to convince the loved ones of the victim from having difficulties in accepting what their loved ones go through.

Throughout the semester, we have had the opportunity to learn the processes of examination, evaluation and treatment of many orthopedic dysfunctions as students of physical therapy (PT). And while we have spent hours practicing these skills on peers and professors, these experiences are not as complex as performing them on an actual patient. Therefore, for this assignment we were asked to spend six hours in an orthopedic setting of our choice to provide us with real life experiences with patients. Our settings of choices were both outpatient orthopedic clinics located in San Antonio, TX. First, we did separate observations at the Medical Arts and Research Center (MARC) under the direction of Dr. Chad Hodges, followed by the joined

I observe the following during my clinical experience at the YMCA after school program, • teacher and teacher assistants interacting with students during free play and snack time. • students having social interaction with each other during activities. • Students receiving assistance from staff members.

Since I started my clinical experience I feel I have grown tremendously. At first everything was new and fast paced. It was overwhelming and I felt like a deer in head lights at times. I have gotten better at paying attention to details and, observing my patient before we enter the exam room. I feel more comfortable in the exam room compared to when we started which has led to more confidence. At first I was timid when it came to doing exams, however now I just go and do them without hesitation just for the experience. I think have taken great strides since we started, but there is still more to learn and improve on. This week I got to spend time in the ortho clinic

This week at clinical I got to witness and experience how appreciative the patients are to the therapists because of how they took care of them and treated them. One of our head and neck patient gave restaurant gift cards out to the therapists and also included me, and said thank you to. He said thank you to everyone. I saw how the therapist receive a lot of appreciations from their patients. This taught me a lot and motivated me as a student. Again this week, I saw a TBI patient who got threated on trilogy, it was just like the previous TBI patient I saw the last time. This was the same setup and almost the same dose however, I am not saying they have the same treatment plans.

These people’s thoughts were buried in their bodies—maybe not even deeply buried—where they could not communicate them. Slowly, objects began to be created that could help them communicate. Now the two most well known objects for communication-disabled persons are computers and augmentative devices. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems are “the supplementation and/or replacement of natural speech and/or writing using aided and/or unaided symbols . . . and the related means of selection and transmission of such symbols” (Lloyd, Fuller, and Arvidson xix). They are used when a person’s communication (or lack of communication) limits them socially (Yorkston, Beukelman, and Strand 523).

I had a great time in clinical today and I’m currently being learned. In the early morning, I helped out with distributing breakfast trays without anyone telling me to. After passing out breakfast, RN Ms. Robyn asked me to do vital signs; therefore, I did vital signs on seven different patients. I had the opportunity to observe some labored breathing, irregular pulse, and bradyarrhythmia.**