Patient Interview Timeline

Interacted with patients in a group setting to observe behaviors and took notes accurately in orders to communicate their status to the medical specialists so recommended treatments and adjustments can be implemented.

1) I learned that you are always busy while on the floor. There was always something to do both on the OB floor and in the clinical setting. On the OB floor, I was always in a patient’s room assessing, and helping in some way, or I was in the nurse’s station charting. At the Women’s Health clinic, we were constantly bringing patient’s back into the exam rooms, asking questions about health history, answering questions, and assessing. There was very rarely any down time.

Through various experiences I have had the opportunity to use some of these skills in order to completely fulfill patients’ needs. One occasion I clearly recall was during a time I worked in an

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deliver patients medical records, and run errands for all of the Nursing Units, Radiology, Admitting, and the general offices. From this experience I exhibited characteristics such as responsibility, caring, and, trustworthiness. Most importantly from this experience I learned you can change a person’s entire day by simply sending a smile their way or offering assistance. The small things in life matter, and I was reminded to live everyday to its fullest, because you never

Responsibilities: Perform Follow-Up Appointments, Refer Patient to other doctors for more in depth tests, First point of contact for family members

A university of phoenix student conducted an interview with Kelli Flack who has an LPN working on her BSN. Kelli works at Family Health Care of Siouxland. Just a brief background on Kelli, she has been an LPN for 7 years. She received her LPN through Morningside College.

This writer agreed to meet with the patient as she missed group and her scheduled individual session with this writer. The patient apologized to this writer for her absence and then reports about transportation issue. This writer discussed with the patient about her MVA this month on the 18th and the status of obtaining a police report. The patient reports, " I can get the police report by the next appointment. I just have to go to my insurance company that isn't too far from where I live to get a copy of it."

Another new skill learnt was documenting. I did know the background of it but never before had done. The health aide taught me how to record vitals in

Expertise plays a pivotal role in regards to how I think and how I solve problems. It is important to build a foundation of knowledge by learning it extensively and being able to organize it and apply this knowledge in essential situations. For my clinical shadowing, I intend to practice this style of learning by paying close attention to meaningful patterns of information, such as, how the physician interacts with the patient, what procedures they carry out and observe how each medical equipment serves a purpose is important for building experience and creating meaningful patterns. In addition, I definitely intend to incorporate organization of knowledge during my clinical shadowing. This will help guide my way of thinking.

theory and have more clinical hours and will be able to fully comprehend the importance of

I learned how to tube blood samples down to the lab and how to tube prescriptions down to the pharmacy. I also got to see a sciatic and femoral nerve block. I learned how anesthesiologists read ultrasounds and how they see nerves on them. I learned that the sciatic nerve is accessed from the back of the lower thigh and the nerve can be seen on the ultrasound. The patient's foot jerks when the needle pokes the sciatic nerve. The femoral nerve is accessed from the pelvic area and can't be seen on ultrasound. The anesthesiologists know where to put the numbing medicine by the patient's knee jerking and knowing that the femoral nerve is distal to the femoral artery which can be seen on the ultrasound.

So, in addition to deepening the science in the field of medicine I was also able to develop other skills that can support my career in a wider

My responsibilities were taking patients’ histories, doing physical examinations, performing EKGs, reviewing the patient medications, discussing the management plan and updating the electronic medical records, also I participated in inpatient rounds in the afternoon at Piedmont Hospital & Emory Midtown Hospital. It was a great experience working with nurses and helping them giving vaccinations and doing lab work. And from my interaction with the office staff, I learned more about medical billing and medical coding and this assisted me better understand the administrative work. My involvement in research at the same time had helped me applying the concepts of the scientific research in clinical medicine.

In today’s medical field technology plays a big role when it comes to patient care. Technology is huge when it comes to giving the patient the best type of quality care when they are in the hospital. In the old days people would just write it down on a sheet of paper and record it by hand, which caused mistakes. Now with the Electronic Health Record those mistakes are drastically declining. Statistics have shown that using the Electronic Health Record has lowered Nursing mistakes as well as improved patient care. Our society has progressed through the years and has been introduced with the Electronic Health Record which has drastically improved our health care system. The Electronic Health Record provides great communication between