My Clinical Field Experience

The event that stood out the most to me during my clinical experience this month was when my assigned patient and her family began asking questions about the care the patient was receiving and other non-medical related questions.

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,

Deciding to be a Diagnostic Medical Sonographer was not an easy or fast decision. Like everything else in life, my decision was gradual and time-consuming. However, being involved in the medical field was always something that I longed to do. Most other kids want to be a firefighter, police man, or President of the United States. For me I always knew that my heart belonged in the hospital.

I sincerely believe that I accomplished my goals this week. I realized that I served 14 patients by combining the ability of knowledge, my attitude for excellence that I have consistently defeat the odds to become the very best Nurse practitioner; I can become. This clinical experience brings forth many opportunities and achievements. The most important experience this week; I had the ability to identify as primary healthcare provider a high risk need for the patient to be transferred to the Hospital for further evaluation without delay; due to complaints of “leg cold from the knee down to the feet”, which my evaluation was based on evidence practice knowledge of compassion and skill with the autonomy to practice, diagnose, and treat patients

For my Clinical experience, I was referred to one of community clinics run by nurse practitioners - yes, NPs- in Suffolk County in Long Island by my coworker. It is called “Nightingale Preventative Care.” I am working in the ER and at first, I thought this clinic would be a type of urgent care office which is a similar setting to the ER. I was totally wrong. For the past two weeks, this place has surprised me many ways and I learned about what the community clinic is alike to its neighbors. Patients can be seen by NPs by the appointment. However, it is located inside of K-mart and has many walk-in patients as well. Many patients who come to visit for their check-up have no medical insurance. Every Wednesday, a representative from Fidelis Care insurance company comes and provides information about Medicaid and Medicare service the company has. I really like to sit down with patients and assess about their medical histories and family histories which I cannot do often in the ER. I had a patient who was Hepatitis A Ab, Total positive Abnormal first day I work at the clinic. He didn’t understand what the test result meant and neither did I. I printed out an article from National Library of Medicine and went over with him. Patient’s education in the ER rarely happens from nurses. I felt great to listen what patients tried to lose their weight or quit smoking. I like to continue on developing skills on patient’s education and preventative care measure for patients.

For the past two weeks I have been performing my clinical at Holton Community Hospital experiencing what it is like to be on the floor with the patients and I had the opportunity to see what it was like in the Family Practice part of the hospital.

My overall experience of this clinical was great. I got to feed a baby, take the temperature, and watch how a newborn is bathed. In the NICU I noticed that there was a lot of work. The nurse that I was with had three patients to take care of. One of the patients was premature, had an NG tube, his face was disfigured, and he was angry. The nurse always had to check on him because one of the machines started to beep or she had to prepare the feeding for the infant. It was overwhelming to see an infant on a tube and who had to be given medications to calm him down because he angry. That one patient needed a lot of care and constant monitoring. The nurse that I was with talked to me about the premature babies and how many of the premature babies

This paper will examine my clinical practical experience at Holy Cross Aspen Hill facility. . I will share what I learned at the site, activities and tasks I completed, any observations on workflow and processes, thoughts I had on what could have improved my experience. The possible ways it could have been improved are numerous.

The sociological theory of Functionalism takes upon the perspective that society consists of systematic processes, which revolve around set structures. Functionalist theory allows for the creation of health and illness as variables (Stam, 2000). These variables all lead to development and require that certain structures be used to restore proper function. The intended purpose of this reflective piece is to identify how my Patient-Practitioner experiences could be viewed from the sociological theory of functionalism. The essay will present a case study and then proceed to analyse the case through the lens of functionalism. The analysis will include limitations of functionalism and consider implications of this analysis upon future paramedic practice.

As I think back to the first couple days of this semester I was introduced to many other nursing students. Through different ice breakers, in each class, I heard students talk about how they have worked in clinical offices, gained experience as CNAs, or traveled to another country to take care of sick children. After hearing all the amazing opportunities to help and care for people, it made me feel as if I was the lowest man, or should I say woman on the totem pole, when it came to experience. I have been very fortunate to have a healthy family with minimal illnesses. While I am very grateful for that, it poses a challenge for me when it comes to the topic—How did you care for someone?

A reflection is a way for us to look back and reminisce on past memories and compare it to how we have grown since our past experience. We use reflection throughout many phases of our lives because we are every changing and growing in both personality, intellect, and adaptation. Reflection is important because it gives us a chance to look back on our past experiences and learn from them. When we reflect back on our nursing school experience we can see how over the span of only ten months we have grown into competent individuals ready to enter the “real world” of nursing. Beginning this program I remember all of us being terrified by clinical and patient interactions, where as compared to now, we walk into a patient’s room with the confidence

Clinical Work-based is not as easy as you would think. It takes a lot of critical thinking, patience, confidence, and more. From my experience it was very rough in the beginning. When you first start you won’t know everything: but you still need to know how to transfer what you learned from the skills lab to the nursing home. With this experience, it has taught me that I need to be more confident within myself and stop over-thinking. Everything that I have learned in the skills lab, I have to remember how to and when to transfer it. With this clinical class it has taught me how precious life is. There were several patients there that would love to be able to walk like us, talk like us, maybe even be like us. The patients there taught me how

I worked as an extern in the Nephrology department of Hahneman University Hospital. It has provided me a hands on clinical experience. I had access to the electronic medical records (EMR). My responsibilities included taking patients history carefully, performing relevant clinical examination and presenting cases to the attending Physician. I was entrusted with the task of writing daily progress report and making management plan over which healthy discussions with the Attending were held. During the rounds of inpatient and outpatient dialysis unit, I availed the opportunity to closely observe the management of dialysis dependent ESRD patients. Apart from daily noon-conferences, I regulary attended weekly morning conferences and actively took

Prior to my clinical day, February 21st, 2017, I created clinical objectives to complete to enhance my learning. The clinical objectives I created for myself were examine lab values earlier in the shift, explore deeper into the patient’s history and pathophysiology of my patient’s conditions, and manage my time better. I kept these objectives in mind throughout the day to be productive.

I believe that knowing how you will get to your goals is just as important as the goals themselves. I do understand that being in a graduate program- such as frontiers’- does require a significant level of dedication and commitment if there is a desire to be successful. As most would agree, undergraduate nursing education can be demanding. Going through nursing school, I have experienced this first hand. Applying myself to my studies could be likened unto having a fulltime job. Being successful in that particular program required that level of dedication. In jest I say, my life consisted of sleeping, eating, and studying with less of the aforementioned. Along with studying- during what seemed to be most of my waking hours- I also worked a part time job, which placed an additional strain on the time that was available to school. Needless to mention was also the time needed to maintain my sanity outside of school; family and church commitments. I did in the end complete my program successfully, but that was not without sacrifice and determination. After stating these things, I hope that it will serve as a testament to my capability in handling the ensuing rigors of this program. However, regardless of how much experience I might have in dealing with balancing school and life, entering into such an undertaking could not be done without a