Standardized Patient Clinical Experience

When assessing a child you must be careful to take into account confidentiality before carrying out an observation you must have parents and the settings permission and not to leave confidential material lying around they must be secured in a locked cabinet. Only talk to authorized personal about

Therefore, a formative assessment was performed in the third week of placement without any concern pass or fail results (Gopee, 2015 p.174). However, the vital signs assessment tool (VSAT) was created by the author of this report (Appendix A) based on evidence based practice (EBP) in order to meet the clinical learning environment (CLE) needs as suggested by Bradshaw et al., (2012). Although, the STN feels happy to perform the assessment, nevertheless, the STN requires support since this is the first time to perform VS on a real patient. Consequently, a mentor checklist was used (Appendix B) to create CLE (RCN, 2007), to reduce the level of anxiety also to enhance learning experience (Anderson, 2011) and to ensure the STN feels being part of

As I think back to the first couple days of this semester I was introduced to many other nursing students. Through different ice breakers, in each class, I heard students talk about how they have worked in clinical offices, gained experience as CNAs, or traveled to another country to take care of sick children. After hearing all the amazing opportunities to help and care for people, it made me feel as if I was the lowest man, or should I say woman on the totem pole, when it came to experience. I have been very fortunate to have a healthy family with minimal illnesses. While I am very grateful for that, it poses a challenge for me when it comes to the topic—How did you care for someone?

I did assessment on my daughter. I walk into the room and my first assessment was her safety and the environment she is surrounded by. I washed my hand and introduce myself and what I will be doing to the patient, and ask the patient for her name and date of birth. I gave a privacy and started to check for vital signs.

Medicine is a unique field in the sense that being a healthcare worker requires cumulative knowledge and skills in order to provide care for others in a sensitive and effective manner. My first direct patient experience with healthcare came on a Sunday morning in the basement of a church that serves as a clinic for the homeless, or for those who cannot afford to receive medical care. I was tasked with escorting patients from the waiting room into a makeshift examination room, and to gather basic information (why they came in, past medical history, drug use, and how they were feeling). A man in 50’s was the next patient, and I escorted him back to the room to start my routine as usual. When I asked about any current drug usage, he unexpectedly

Part 1: First day of clinical was a great experience! It was not my first time going into a healthcare facility but it was my first time actually going inside to a patient’s room to provide care. Today, it was kind of an exploring, easy day. I was very scared to first get into a patient’s room but I had a very cooperative, sweet, easy going patient and it really helped me to overcome my nervousness. Today, I tried to do head to toe assessment on my patient and it went fine. I had difficulty to hear her apical heart rate but after trying it few times, I was able to get it. I also saw a CNA giving shower to a patient and it was my first time actually seeing one. Practicing in a mannequin and actually seeing it doing on a human being was different.

I completely agree with your statements in this week’s discussion post. Personally, I do believe the nurse completed an assessment on the patient. After realizing the patient was in distress the nurse did what she thought was right and called the emergency physician for more help. I still believe the nurse should’ve written down the patient’s vitals and assessment information on a piece of paper for example and charted the information once the patient was stable. “The basic purposes of standard of care are to protect and safeguard the public as a whole” (Guido, 2014, p. 55). I have confidence that the nurse was doing what she believed was right, but was caught in a messy situation. As all of us know health care is a hectic profession and everything

I do well with patient interactions, I am very comfortable with starting the conversation and interviewing the patient regarding their chief complaints. I also do well with soap notes during clinical. I document directly in patients’ chart at the clinical setting. I am getting more comfortable with the system each day; my preceptor has given me positive feedback on my soap notes documentations. I need to improve on the planning portion of the clinical, I have difficulty with HEENT system. It seems hard to distinguish between the antibiotic choices and who to prescribe antibiotics per guidelines. I also have difficulty with all the procedures that we encounter during clinical. I don’t have a clear knowledge of what to do with the procedures.

I found the standardized Patient Encounters to be an insightful experience. It was very interesting, having been a nurse for a little over a year and I have developed my own way of assessing my patients and approaching problems. Experiencing standardized patient encounters after already having experience as a nurse gave me insight to as my areas of weakness as well as my strengths. It was an interesting work with new, adult patients, being I work with long term pediatric patients. I liked being able to ask the patients questions and have a conversation, which is something I don’t get to do often in the facility where I work. I also found it to be reenergizing, there are so many areas of nursing I have yet to explore and I am excited to see where my career takes me.

Starting my clinical experience this week, I felt confident in the interview process. I knew what information I wanted to gather for my care plan. I also knew that all the information I needed would not be found in the chart. I had to gain the patient’s trust so that he or she could open up to me. Upon finding out that my patient was a transgender male, I was uncomfortable. Despite of my knowledge and my experiences in the healthcare field, I was afraid of offending the patient by referring to him as the wrong sex or the wrong name. Therefore, I said to myself “In this profession, I must be non-judgmental and put all my personal opinions aside to care for the patient”. That is when I started to feel confident in my ability to be compassionate

Watch your child closely while he or she heals. Watch for any new symptoms or changes in your child's condition.

You bring up very good points throughout your post. I hope you could provide some insight on how to discover a patients understanding. It is crucial, as you stated, that the patient is knowledgeable about a given situation so they can fully express their autonomy.

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I would like to discuss an experience a patient in our ED shared regarding her patient experience. Her name is Trinidad Teodorica prefers being called Dorica. She has three kids, a daughter with a 16 month old baby, a son that is a navy seal, and her other son who works on airplanes and builds drones. She is a grandmother to a set of five year old twins (cute!). This individual loves to gamble and travel with her husband. She is in room J and is being admitted to the hospital, her primary nurse is Marsha. She told me, she had never been in a community hospital because she has always been a Kaiser patient. She did not know what to expect, but her primary physician recommended RCH to her. She states “I am amazed; I never thought a community

The SPICES and CAM assessments is starting to make sense as a tool that help a nurse to plan for the care of the patients.