Personal Narrative: The Privacy Of Pediatric Patients

From a pediatric perspective, the family is an integral part of the healthcare team. Parents are the primary ally and resource in providing individualized care for their child. Even in adult patients, who they are is impacted by the relationships that they have. Serious or chronic illnesses and injuries affect the entire family. The family, then, becomes the patient, particularly when it is necessary to make lifestyle changes.

As a member of the healthcare family you have the opportunity to work with many different families and patients. You get to experience the good and the

Another big role in a pediatric nurse’s job is telling the parents disturbing news when it is necessary. Telling the family any bad news is more of a process than anyone might think. The pediatric nurse responsible for this task must first think ahead, plan for the worse, and plan for the reaction of the family. The pediatric nurse must set time apart from their busy day to be able to spend it with the family of the patient. One is never sure how the family will react or how long it will take to explain all the details and answer all the family’s questions. , According to Crawford in his journal “It is also helpful in many cases to have a witness to what was actually said as sometimes, despite all the care and attention to detail, mixed messages can be conveyed” (Crawford 3). In the article, it also states that the pediatric nurse should give open and honest information to the family. The nurse should start the conversation off letting the family know that they are here to support and encourage. The nurse should be straight forward from there on out and should refrain from using elaborate or confusing words with the child’s family. The nurse should avoid not only confusing the family but also excuses, jargon, elaborate reasoning, and the temptation to speed through the bad news without making 100 percent positive the family understands what they are being told. When the nurse has properly told the family the bad news, he or she must

In class, we learned that doctors are often very specialized and are only concerned about one specific part of a patient’s body. However, PAs are able to spend ample time communicating with patients and assessing their illness as a whole. Jessica Swartz said that she loves that she gets to take care of a patient throughout their entire hospital stay and is able to develop a trusting relationship with many of them. During lecture, Mrs. Hontz stated that many PAs in family practice are able to take care of their patients from birth to death, which allows them to form lasting relationships with them. I look forward to the many interactions that I will have as a PA, which will hopefully show my patients how much I care about helping them feel their best.

If the child is staying in the hospital for a long time this can lead to a highly toxic environment, making it uncomfortable not only for the staff but also for the child and the family. This can seriously effect the family system, adding lots of added stress, emotions and struggle to an already daunting situation. Children need all the support they can get in this trying time. Not only the honesty of their parents but, also the honesty of their doctors and the hospital

seph, I personally don’t have children yet but I think that responding to a pediatric patient will be the hardest call behind responding to family and friends. Going back to my first year of being a lifeguard, there was a child that was left unattended by his parents and he injured himself. immediately after he injured himself we activated our emergency action plan and I responded and assisted with back boarding the child, just as we were putting on the last strap the child’s mother came up from behind and started yelling and attacking the lifeguards thinking we were injuring her child. After talking with the women she demanded that we release her child even with the possibly of major head trauma, so we had her sign the paper work and released

Family members play a big part of providing care to a patient, rather it be comfort, or education, I would involve them in my patient care. To me, the patient isn 't just the "person" laying in the hospital bed. Every person has values that need to be respected and nurtured.

(OOH) He does this by having them walk around or exercises stressing the certain area of problem. (OOH) You then need to educate the family on what to expect and what they should be doing to help the patient during their

With 207 items comprising the “rig check,” or ambulance inventory check, accounting for each and every object on the list is going to take a while, but to me, it’s still one of most valuable jobs that I perform as a member of the Clinton rescue squad.

From the first shift of my preceptorship, I knew that the staff working in the pediatric emergency department had a special bond. Everyone was very welcoming to me and made me feel comfortable. I didn’t find any real challenges while socializing into the role of a professional nurse because the staff was so helpful. The nurses were willing to help each other with patient assignments when they were overwhelmed. I can see where some challenges might arise on a different unit or setting.

I had my first visit at the Watoto Pediatrics in Manassas, Virginia on 30th of August 2016. As soon as I arrived at the Watoto pediatric, my preceptor gave a tour of the site and oriented me to the charting system. We discussed regarding my goals for the next couple of weeks and expectation from the preceptor. Since it was my first day, I mainly did observation. We saw over 15 patients. The reasons for the visit were: well child visit, rash, cough, cellulitis and ADHD medication refill. One of the differences in providing care to the pediatric patient is that they are always accompanied by either one parent or caregiver. We always start our conversation by talking and interacting with the child. While talking to the child, we glance at parent

To begin my experience of gaining access to my health record, I started off by calling my family physician office to book an appointment for June 26th, 2015 – a weekend I was going back to Parksville for a family event. As I was booking my appointment, I mentioned to the receptionist that I would like to view my record during my appointment. She was very kind in the matter and said it would be no problem and to ask my doctor during my visit. On June 26th, at the end of my appointment with my doctor I asked him to see my health record, which was already in front of him, he was more than happy to let me look at it and answer any questions I had.

(2006) states that one of the biggest concerns of families during their study was being in the way of staff members. Most of patient rooms are small and hard to manoeuvre without any equipment or people. Families thought being in the room could cause a barrier to proper care thus not asking to be present. Taking the benefits and major family concerns regarding resuscitation I think the family should be asked to exit the room or be moved to an area out of the way so the team can set up their equipment and so a staff member can explain what is going on to the family without being a distraction or in the way. During that time the nurse can determine whether or not the family would like to be present and start to mentally preparing the family for what they will be potentially seeing before reentering the

My time in participating throughout this course taught me the values of patient privacy, how all spectrum of health care professions are affected by technology, and importance as a health professional in staying educating to the current policies and technology onhand. While it is mentioned throughout my current job and through other healthcare courses the importance to safeguarding information, this course shared details as to why and how. I grasped a better understand based on the acts needing to set regulations through technology from the above mentioned HIPAA and HITECH. Personal health information very well is a part of a patient;s identity, under the wrong hands it can be violated in terms of harassing telemarketing being sent out to

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