Hospital Creative Writing

I was able to see the hospital setting for the first time during this experience. This shadowing took place in Palmetto Health's Pediatric ICU. I shadowed Dr. Hubbird during college, and I gained more under his leadership then with any other doctor. He truly showed the passion of healthcare in his daily routine, and he challenged me to use critical thinking skills under pressure to help patients. I witnessed surgeries to get children breathing again in front of their grieving parents, and I knew at this moment that I wanted to make a difference and save lives. The humanitarian spirit was released in me during this experience, and I know that I want to do this work for the rest of my

I was still drowsing, but I was awake. I got my clothes on and then went to get my phone and I remembered that I did not charge it. I found my phone on the charger and I said in my head “Thank you, dad.” My mom, my sister and I quickly got in the car so we could go to Rockford to get my cousin, Melissa. We stopped at her house and she came with us ready to go to Six Flags.

It was a Saturday morning. I was exhausted from last night’s party so I decided to sleep in. It had only been about 5 minutes after I decided I would sleep longer when my mom called.

Skylar was a 15 year old in her freshman year of high school along with her two best friends Tucker and Charlotte. Skylar had long brown silky hair, which she always wore up either in a ponytail or some type of braid. Skylar loved to wear skinny jeans, converse, and sweatshirts. Her eyes were a mixture of a green and darker orange color. Skylar was very confident around people that she was most comfortable with. Otherwise, she was very shy and quiet around others. Charlotte was blonde with her hair always flowing down her back. Charlotte wore pretty much the same thing as Skylar except she liked to wear actual t-shirts. Charlotte has bright blue eyes that everyone wished they had. Charlotte didn’t care what others thought so she was always

Long-term acute care hospitals were created "to facilitate prompt discharge of medically-complex patients" (http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/3/438.full) in the 1980s in an attempt to reduce Medicare spending. Acute care hospitals are for short-term stays where as, long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) are for patients with more serious conditions that require longer care, usually more than 25 days. Most patients at LTACHs have been in an acute care facility in an intensive care or critical care unit and require longer, more complex, more specialized treatment, such as, IV therapy treatment, complex wound care, long term ventilator usage, ventilator weaning, intensive respiratory therapy, and dialysis for chronic renal failure. Another

Traditional hospitals using standard medical treatment and Western-educated personnel tend to treat the patient's physical being while ignoring other equally important aspects of the patient and the caregiver. Fortunately, healing hospitals have transformed the concept of healing through the principle of "Radical Love." Recognizing the equal importance of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing for all members of the hospital environment, Radical Love enhances the entire wellbeing of the entire community.

After getting an IV put in, I found myself examining the various medical devices in the steri le room while I waited for the procedure to begin. Eve ntually the surgeon came in and explained what all would happen before they put me under. Being under anesthesia is a unique experience. All I remember is being told to count back from 10,

Davis came in all washed and ready to get started. Because I was going to be awake during the entire procedure, the nurses pinned a sheet up as a shield. Next, my husband was brought in to sit beside my head. I was still nervous, and he could tell. He reached out and grabbed my left hand, and I could instantly feel my nerves begin to subside a bit. The doctor got started, and all I could do was look at the ceiling and squeeze my husband’s hand. I could smell burning flesh, but I tried to think about something else. As Dr. Davis worked, he talked. I guess this was his way of keeping things a little lively, as well as, keeping my mind off of what he was doing. It took about 30 minutes of working to cut me open, and I felt him start to tug and

After that I was sent up to my room with my parents where I waited until they said it was okay for me to go home. My parents took me home and put me in my bed and that’s pretty much where I spent the next month and a half, just lying in my bed. Post-surgery was difficult. It consisted of immense pain, a lot of nausea, intense discipline, and a lot of physio. I began to feel depressed because all I did was sit around and watch movies, which sounds relaxing, but actually came to be very boring. My life was like a movie playing on an endless loop. But there was no fast forward

Maggie Solis (approaching both Officer Myers and Officer Ramirez): Both children seem to be Ok, but we’ll need to transport them to the Hospital for a full medical evaluation. Will Child Protective Service be at the Hospital?

I slept for a while until my Mom rapped on the door and shouted, "Get up dear!"

We sat down, took off our coats, and began to look over the menu. I didn’t know what to order, everything seemed so delicious. Our waitress came to our

While I sat anxious. I had never been a fan of hospitals. Not to mention that I was exhausted and I was beginning to form a headache. I Couldn’thelp but to yawn.

Narratives are the main way humans communicate with each other. In the process of communicating, we begin to tell a narrative through the way words are combined to create meanings. Through this process, our imagination is created based on the author’s style of narration. We use narratives as a way to understand each other and also connect on an emotional level. Just like other career fields, the medical field begins to tell their stories through narratives. Most importantly in this field of study, doctors are able to establish an ongoing dialogue with their patients which helps them to figure out the issue at hand through the way the narrative is being told, and also the doctor totally manipulates the narrative of the patient. The narrative of medicine allow us to dive into deeper meanings and makes us question our “Origin and Destinies” (Charon). These narratives communicated through the doctor and the patient might not `necessarily have a resolution depending on the illness diagnosed. That being said, one can look at the medical field as we do a narrative. In the same way we analyze stories, we can analyze the plot structure and codes of particular fields, one of the most valuable being the medical field. The three genres of the narrative of medicine are patient’s stories, physician to physician stories and the physician to patient encounter. They operate differently depending on the perspective in which the

A Hospital approve head covers should be wore at all times by personnel in the restricted and semi restricted area. These head covers should be lint free and cover all head and facial hair, mail personnel with excessive facial hair should wear a beard covers, to prevent bacteria from falling from the personnel onto