Personal Narrative: My Experience As A Registered Nurse

It is no secret that communication is key when providing direct patient care in a skilled nursing facility. However, there is a noticeable lapse in the communication between the care team when providing care to the individual or groups of individuals. Two main parts of any care team are the registered nurse and the certified nursing assistant, as these are the two people whom have the most direct and impactful roles with residents in a skilled facility. The Registered Nurse and the Certified Nursing Assistant play similar roles in providing patient care, but have different roles in its entirety. The role of the Registered Nurse (RN) is defined as having the competency and skill to provide direct and indirect health care to individuals, their families, and communities around them. Services are also provided designed to give out medications, to promote comfort or healing, promote healing, and to also provide the dignity of their patients and patient’s families (American College of Rheumatology, 2015).

Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing, once said, “I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.” That is an outlook on life I try to live up to. I have had a few set backs in my college career to keep me from achieving my goal of becoming a Registered Nurse. I could have easily given up on my dream but I took those hardships and turned them into fuel to keep going. My father suffered a massive heart attack and went into cardiac arrest when I first started college. It completely flipped by life upside down. I spent weeks at a time in the hospital with him. Seeing him go in and out the hospital for years reaffirmed my need to become a nurse and help others like how those nurses took care of my father. Once I

The onset of her labor was on a Saturday morning. She thought she had had too many tacos, but then she lost her mucus plug. Labor was slow because her cervix would not dilate. She went to the hospital more than once, but the maternity ward would not admit her because her cervix was stuck at two centimeters. The obstetrics staff advised her to walk around which she did. She took multiple hot baths to help with the pain. She was in labor and awake on and off from Saturday morning until Monday night when she finally gave birth at Kaiser hospital in Riverside, California.

During our initial assessment of Ms. K.R., the following vital signs were noted: blood pressure was 147/67, temp 36.6 degrees Celsius, pulse 80 beats per min., respiratory rate of 20, pulse ox 99% on room air, a pain score of 8 during contractions, and fetal heart tones had a baseline of 130 over the last two hours. Her labs showed 2+ protein in her urine but she denied any headaches, vision changes, right upper quadrant pain, and no DTRs or colonus were observed. Ms.K.R. seemed to be handling her labor well, with the exception of being in a lot of pain and unable to find a comfortable position.

When she was told this she started to become scared as she had a difficult first birth as the epidural did not work and now she could not have one. She was then offered alternative pain relief. She went into

In the professional setting, knowing the patient through his or her diagnosis, name, history of present illness, laboratory results or reason for staying in the hospital only contributes to the manner of physical care of the patient. However, recognizing the patient 's spiritual needs such as emotional support, mental positivity, and intellectual understanding of his or her situation gives a better assessment, as well as a trusting relationship between the nurse and the patient, as per personal experience. In the ward, it is evident that most of the staff nurses spend their time doing documentations, preparing medications, following-up laboratory requests, as well as reading through the patients ' charts to affirm the physician 's order. Throughout the duration of our shifts as student nurses, I see that the most that the staff nurses get to be conversant with the patient is when certain procedures (such as feeding through nasogastric tube, taking

A clinical issue, observed while on placement include the lack of consistency in the approach for pushing during the second stage of labour and the high level of perineal trauma.

Patient Y was scheduled for an induction due to the fact that she was a multigravida and of advanced maternal age. Patient Y was also two days past her due date and still did not go into labor. Upon arrival to the maternity unit, she did not exhibit any signs of labor. Patient Y’s vitals signs remained stable during the early morning, but the fetus’s heart rate started decreasing soon after she was connected to the fetal heart rate monitor. Please refer to Appendix A for the patient’s admission vital signs.

This project was very fun for me. I learned many new things from each of the different developmental stages. My group had a fun time filming about the preschoolers and we all had a few funny moments while filming. This project also made me branch out to fellow students I wouldn’t normally interact with and the time we spent together was priceless, during this time some good friendships were made. This project benefitted me not just as student or a nurse but as a person. This project made me come out of my comfort zone and brainstorm with people who might not have liked the ideas I was coming up with. As a student being able to come up with new ways to educate people will help me in my nursing career. We did face quite a few challenges in making this video. At first we did not have very good conducive schedules and it seemed like all four of

Today I wasn’t able to start an IV and I was a little sad about that as usual; by the time I reached the floor most was done, or I was in a procedure while another one was being done. Its always a case of bad luck with me, but I will be able to practice tomorrow in class so at least that will be beneficial. So I can be successful on my first one as a student nurse. I've done one before when I was a medical assistant at Any Lab Test Now, but that was years ago. But I am excited to say that I was in the operating room finally, and that made my day. I had the opportunity to be present during a laparoscopic tubal ligation. It almost made me decide to switch my major to surgical technician. I was wanted to remain out the way and only used when needed.

For as long as I can remember all I've ever wanted to do was help others. I remember just riding in the car and seeing homeless people, and people less fortunate than I and all I wanted to do was help them. So from that point on I made it my life mission to help others. At the time I didn't know how, but I knew I was going to do something. Eventually, I realized I wanted to be a nurse. At first I just wanted to be a nurse to help people, I didn't know what kind of nurse I wanted to be. Then one day it hit me, I knew what kind of nurse I was going to be after college. After graduating from Mount Carmel College of Nursing I am going to be a traveling nurse. I am going to go to other countries and help people that are less fortunate then many

Mrs. Gold, a G3P2 woman at thirty-nine weeks gestation, who participates on group prenatal visits, arrives at Labor and Delivery having contractions every four to five minutes. A fetal heart tones strip is obtained and interpreted as reactive. Digital cervical exam revels the cervix dilated to 5cm, 80% effaced, the fetus is at 1 station and positive fetal vertex. Review of the birth plan reveals that the patient has requested a natural labor with no blood transfusions due to her belief system, and a plan is negotiated for the third stage of labor. The patient is admitted with intermitted fetal monitoring. Blood pressure is 145/98 but no signs or symptoms of eclampsia. After the fetus develops late decelerations and the mother is found hypotensive 90/40, and IV fluid bolus is recommended, but the patient declines the intervention citing her belief system, and the student learns how to approach a patient declining medical advice for personal reasons. Cervix completely dilated and effaced and the fetal vertex is at +1 station, left occiput anterior. After a normal delivery, Apgar’s score nine - one minute, cord clamping at 2 minutes, and cord

I have proven you wrong. All my childhood you resented me, abusing me merely because I was born a woman. I had always done my best to appease to you and gain your approval, but you never even faltered. However, I no longer seek your “forgiveness”. Fighting in the Union Army I have demonstrated my equalness and valiance time and time again.

Miss Myrtle, a 28-year-old patient on a postnatal unit gave birth to her baby daughter Sarah via emergency C-section 24 hours ago. A day ago she had serious unstoppable contractions so that the umbilical cord prolapsed and the gynecologists needed to deliver the baby at 28 weeks pregnancy. During the C-section she was unable to see the baby, additionally it was moved to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), intubated and in critical medical condition.

For my project, I chose someone that does a job that is similar to the I would like to do someday. I look up to her because she has put in a lot of work to get to the place she is now. I interviewed my sister, Kaitlyn, who has a BSN in nursing. She chose to be a nurse because she has always felt a passion to help other starting at a very young age and her mother is a nurse so she grew up around it. This is how she always knew it was right for her.