Personal Narrative: My Interaction With Patients

My first clinical rotation was at Wasatch physical therapy, an outpatient clinic. At first, it was a little difficult to get used to seeing the higher volume of patients. It was also difficult to get used to all the different names for various exercises that different therapists had. For example “Ball belt,” Which seemed like it could mean just about anything. I got the hang of things and became pretty comfortable by the end. It was a really positive environment. Time seemed to go by quickly since I was always busy with patients and documentations. Eventually, I got to the point where I was given a bit of freedom and was able to handle around 50% of a caseload independently. I treated knees, shoulders, ankles, wrists, and spines. However, I also got to treat a cardiac patient and got to observe one torticollis and a few pelvic floor patients.

“Oh I got my heart right here. Oh I got my scars right here…” With the slow beat of The Weeknd, I took a right onto the highway. Where was I going? I didn’t know. I was just going to drive my thoughts away. Peering down into my windows, the moon shone on my interior, lighting up everything. It was just me, the moon, and my freedom. I turned the radio louder to blast out my thoughts and just think about the song. I do this therapeutically. Driving makes me feel better, especially when I have no certain destination or deadline. My only goal is to chase the moon in an eternal game of tag, but for some reason I’m always “it”.

My clinical experience today has been a completely different, from any others. Today, Ashley my preceptor was scheduled as the charge nurse. I was surprised by the differences between a floor nurse and a charge nurse with their different responsibility each of them possessed. My first thoughts of a charge nurse were to merely fill in the cracks in the floor, to assist other nurses maintain their patient loads and to cover breaks and lunches, all the same, that is not always the case. This clinical experience has supplied me with a whole new aspect, as well as, a great deal of esteem for the charge nurse. In addition, to the previous mention responsibilities of a charge nurse, in

I sat at the kitchen counter, staring at the green cabinets and bowls of fruit. I wanted to play in tonight’s soccer game, but my mind was still foggy from the drugs I received in the hospital the day before. I didn’t want my teammates to see me like this. My hair was matted from where my head rubbed against the blue hospital pillow, and a wrinkled piece of clear tape secured a nasal feeding tube onto my cheek. I hated what the tube meant: that I was inadequate and that I couldn’t drink by myself. I was someone who insisted on doing everything on my own, and the thin, flexible tube was a physical reminder that I could not. My mom and dad lauded my bravery, but I dismissed them. I didn’t believe bravery was dictated by necessity.

One thing that did not go as I expected was maintaining professional boundaries with a patient because one of the patients was using appropriate word and make me uncomfortable during the second weeks of clinical which is I didn’t expect to be happening. The second experience that did not go as expected was unexpected behavioral change during community group discussions

My first clinical was a good experience because I learned a lot. I would say my first day involved experiences that I was expected to learn but also ones I didn’t. I learned that getting up at 5am in the morning really isn’t as bad as you think, once you get your coffee paid of course. As well as the drive from Valpo to St. Mary only talks about 20 mins. As soon as I arrived at the hospital, I expected to learn about what we as student nurse would be doing, as well as that since it was the first day, learn are way around the hospital. I wasn’t to nervous about going to a hospital for clinical, but as Soon as I stepped on the oncology unit I got a little nervous. It hit me that I was no longer just practicing vital and providing base care to

I was able to make connections between the clinical and the lectures. I was able to apply the knowledge I learned from lectures and our assigned textbooks, readings, and videos to clinical. Over the course of the semester, I became much more comfortable being on the floor at the psychiatric hospital. I was able to see the symptoms the patient presented with and make connections as to what their diagnosis was. as well as the as well as see the therapeutic effects of the medication they were taking. My clinical provided me with exposure to patients with borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, eating disorders, and bipolar disorder. I was nervous about clinical simply because I didn’t know much about mental

My current role in nursing includes caring for long term vented patients, for chronically critically ill or post-ICU patients. Currently, I work as an ICU RN at Select Specialty Hospital in collaboration with other team members, which includes respiratory therapists, certified nursing assistants, Nurse Practioners, and physicians. At select we ensure the highest level of care for this patient population. Specific responsibilities of my daily nursing care include, but are not limited to; patient admissions, discharges, and transfers from telemetry to our ICU unit, reviewing and carrying out physician orders, maintaining and titrating critical medications, and overall maintaining hemodynamic stability.

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

“We have to get this patient to the E.R. quick!” The doctor’s rolled me in the operating room, concerned about my health and my baby’s as well.

I appreciate the opportunity to provide care for an individual at the most intimate level.

She is one of the new of the new residents at the LTC, it was just a few minutes after lunch, a visiting lab nurse asked me to go check the resident that she asked to used the washroom. So I wheeled her to the to her room, collected all the required equipment needed. The resident didn’t know that she had already soiled herself. I put on my gloves after hand hygiene. The I soaked some clothes with warm water. Then I assisted her in transferring from her wheelchair to the toilet seat. When I pulled down her brief, then we noticed that she has already soiled herself. She felt really bad about it, saying “this has never happened before, I am so sorry” I kept telling her that it's alright that it can happen sometimes, that it is not her fault. She

This is 50 year old AAM. Patient is here with several issues. Patient reports, he had been incarserated and now he is in half way house. For past 3 weeks he haven't had any of his medications. Patient denies chest pain, SOB, N/V/ D, or fever. Patietn reports some depresive moods, deneis thoughts of sucide or homicide. Current pain

Louise Catherine Garlits was my great grandma, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 1994. I was born in 1998, and by then the illness was moving into an advanced stage. I never got the chance to meet her without the illness. By the time I was in kindergarten, my mom and I stayed in her house three days a week to help my nanny and great grandpa with her needs like bathing, feeding, and changing her. I caught onto all of her needs fast! After school I would go over to her house and assist her in any way to make her happy and comfortable.

If I were a therapist I would use Behavioral style. This theory uses action, which changes the behavior that the client has been diagnosed with, without focusing on the original cause of the initial starting point of the behavior. I think this would be very effective if I was a therapist, because I feel like physically doing actions is better at facing them, than just talking about them. To be more specific, exposure therapy I think is a great technique for people that are facing a variety of disorders. The 3 ways a client can go about this therapy is vivo, imaginable, and virtual. All of these are very helpful in the way they confront their disorder gradually, or more suddenly. For me personally, facing a fear and everything going smooth is