Personality Rosa exhibits personality traits such as neuroticism, carelessness and introversion. Throughout her treatment, Rosa expressed that she experienced poor care from the health staff and became hostile and aggressive towards staff. Rosa also communicated that she had anxiousness towards the pain caused by her hip surgery and further aggravations of her injury that may have occurred due to movement or rehabilitation. From these instances Rosa displayed neurotic tendencies. Additionally, these tendencies may have caused Rosa to have lowered conscientiousness and openness to experiences in regards to health outcomes and rehabilitation. Throughout the case it is documented that Rosa was reluctant to engage with suggested health recommendations …show more content…
In culturally sensitive situations, I would have to be aware of my own and the clients’ verbal and nonverbal communication to guarantee that I am being appropriate and respectful to the client. I would also ensure additional information is given to the client in a language that they are comfortable with. When conversing with a client, I need to ensure I am not making assumptions about the client’s knowledge, especially when using medical terminology. I would consistently check the clients grasp of the topic by getting them involved in discussions or getting them demonstrate their understanding. To improve my ability to empathise with a patient’s situation, I would engage with them through discussion and actively listening to their stories to better my understanding of their feeling about their situation. Once I have an understanding of the situation I may try make recommendation and referrals to other healthcare professionals who are better able to offer counselling and support. Furthermore, to improve my communication skills as a whole, I would seek courses that further my communication
Being one of the first NPs in this role was a frightening experience for her, “ there were not preceptors in this area”, she states, so they had to create the role from the ground, not an easy task while taking care of highly acute patients.
For this assignment, I had the opportunity to interview Samantha Hage De Reyes, family nurse practitioner, currently working at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) Health Center in Riverside, CA. Family nurse practitioners are described as health professionals with analytic skills for evaluating and providing evidence-based, patient-centered care across settings, and advanced knowledge of the health care delivery system (Hamric, Hanson, Tracy & O’Grady, 2014). My objective was to ask a series of questions pertaining to the role of a family nurse practitioner, challenges concerning this nursing role, opinions regarding the future of family nurse practitioners, and more. This interview was conducted over the phone, and it was a valuable opportunity to learn more about what it means to be a family nurse practitioner and to start thinking about what I want to achieve in my own
During my placement, I also developed good communication skills. I learned how to communicate effectively with clients to enable the provision of health care. When addressing clients, I avoided the use of difficult medical terms and opted for simpler words that were easily understood by all. I also used a variety of efficient communication methods such as allowing clients to express themselves, providing sufficient time for discussion and maintaining eye contact with clients. And to those clients that did not understand English, I sought the assistance of a trusted
The purpose of doing an interview with a Mastered prepared Nurse here is to look for new awareness about a role, much desired by the interviewer and increase insight into the relationship between career path, education and opportunities. The goal is to recognize the interviewer’s current view of the MSN role with that someone presently occupied in that role, and develop a new apprehension. In a face to face interview, we discussed the personal experience, educational preparation and achievements. B.G describes her journey from BSN through master’s degree in Education and post master’s degree in FNP. Getting real role information will aid the interviewer to gain an insight in to the career advancement and is an eye opener to the new opportunities lies ahead of a Master’s prepared Nurse.
A health career is a career many want to pursue including myself. By being in this class I have learned so much. The interview I had with a Certified Nursing Assistant was beneficial because it cleared up many questions I had. She answered how to got there, how she is working her way up, and even likes and dislikes. A CNA might not do a lot of the things Nurses do but it is a great way to start. This way you can work and continue to expand your education in the health field.
According to my interviewee, the Master’s graduate program as compared to the undergraduate program was more challenging but yet rewarding. This was attributed to the fact that she had a strong passion for informatics and wanted to obtain a higher level of education.
The APN leader interviewed for this paper is a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), Chery Arnett works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. She began as a registered nurse in 1981, then in 2001earned her CNP title. She manages and cares for the ill neonate, collaborates with Neonatologist and Pediatricians to improve overall health outcomes. She provides support and assists ventilation, assists with deliveries both “normal” and high risk infants, provides care for the healthy newborns, also providing guidance to parents for caring for the “neonate” or healthy newborns. She is also responsible for assessments, orders, treatment plans, medications, and discharge of the infant. CNP’s provide initial, ongoing and comprehensive care, including managing patients with acute and chronic illness and diseases for both premature infants and term infants.
I first want to thank you for the work you all do in keeping the units in the hospital staffed. I am hoping you can clarify and help me understand a situation that occurred Monday night with Raylene Colvin. Raylene, who is a CICU nurse and new off orientation this week was pulled to ED, and replaced in CICU with Christina Thomas, an ICU PRN nurse. When Raylene was a float, she was not ever orientated to ED and she states she had only functioned as a resource nurse twice while in the med/surg/tele float pool position. Raylene also states she took the role as resource on Monday night. Additionally, she was sent home in the middle of the night around 2 am, because ED no longer needed her while Christina worked in CICU. I am having a hard
1. Monitor the patient's oxygen saturation frequently (once per hour) at rest and after exertion on room air
The national league for nurses defines critical thinking in the nursing process as “a discipline specific, reflective reasoning process that guides a nurse in generating, implementing, and evaluating approaches for dealing with client care and professional concerns” (Kozier, 2008). This definition is imperative to help a nursing student learn how to think in terms of nursing care. Nursing students must achieve a comprehensive understanding of critical thinking in order to understand the nursing process. The purpose for this paper is for nursing students to learn how to use the nursing process, how to properly document their findings and assessments, and correctly implement APA formatting in a formal paper.
In the interview the question about any advice she wanted to offer was asked, with a big smile on her face, I am sure, she responded that the field is “wide open” ("Nursing Informatics as a Career," 2011) she continued on to say, if you are a self-starter it
I have always been fascinated with the Health Care Industry. That fascination leads me to want to work in the industry, preferably the Nursing Field. I decided I need more information that would be helping me to understand the industry, to see if that is the field I wish to pursue. Therefore, I decide to interview people in the nursing sector. I wasn't sure how I would go about completing this task. But something happened to amaze me, one day when I was coming home from school, I started a conversation with a person a random person. We just started talking about the weather and how the train seems to be taking longer than normal. As we were casually talking about different topics the conversation lead to me going to school and how much I wanted
I thought this was a wonderful post and listed some very culturally sensitive components regarding communication skills needed with our patients. According to Andrews and Boyle (2016), nurses can also use the Transcultural Nursing Assessment Guide in order to facilitate assessments with all patients. This guide states we should determine the primary language the patient speaks, how they communicate if they are hearing impaired, nonverbal communication factors, and cultural beliefs toward confidentiality, to name a few. According to a study done by Tucker, Marsiske, Rice, Jones and Herman (2011), by allowing patients to express their own beliefs and values, this could engage them to be more responsive with positive health behaviors, treatment
Mr. W is a seventy-three-year-old man with history of a heart attack which was followed by a severe stroke that left him with right sided paralyses. He needs assistance with activities of daily living. Mr. W’s wife has multiple medical problems of her own. One is of which she is a diabetic and has difficulty walking due to multiple toe amputations. She can only provide a limited amount of care and gets tired easily and quickly. He has a daughter that lives in close proximity, but works full-time and has a family of her own to take care of. She has exhausted her vacation time and does not want to lose her job. She loves her father and is not ready to lose him.
I had to learn to master the skill of active listening and properly decoding messages to understand what others were communicating to me even when cultural barriers were present. I had to manage my body language to ensure I was always displaying positive, non-verbal communication no matter the content of what may have presently been taking place. Giving eye contact was critical as the patient needed to know I was present, attentive, and concerned with their health dilemmas. Maintaining pleasant facial expressions, utilizing positive mannerisms and the appropriate tone of voice were skills that allowed me to create a positive experience for the patient even in their time of discomfort.