As a nurse, we will see ethics in our every day life. From protecting a patients rights to privacy, to protecting their rights as a human being, even when it becomes second nature and we don’t notice it, nurses will constantly have a role in ethics. Reflecting back to the ethics class that I took last year, we were assigned to read “my sisters keeper” about a girl who was born to be her terminally ill sister’s “spare parts.” As…
Through the evidence appraisals and synthesis process, I discovered that there really is not a lot of evidence to support our PICOT question despite what I thought. I assumed that duration of a Foley catheter was a major factor in increasing the incidence of CAUTI however we were not able to find an article that directly focused on duration as a factor. I don’t think I realized this until the synthesis of our paper because when I looked at the…
Having the opportunity to view my peers talking with patients who have mental health disorders helped me to better understand the best way to communicate. Communication is very important however using therapeutic communication is one of the most important interventions a health care provider can do, especially with patients who have mental health disorders. Therapeutic communication allows the nurse or nursing students to develop rapport with the patient which in turn helps in developing a trusting nurse-patient relationship. More specifically…
This project so far has taught me more about teamwork, as well as the importance of evidence based practice in the healthcare field. When creating our PICOT question, we knew the topic that we wanted to focus on which was the risk of catheter associated urinary tract infections. However, after communicating with our professor we felt that we were not as detailed as we needed to be in our first draft of our question so we decided to rewrite it…
During this semester I believe that team work and communication will be two major pieces to being able to successfully complete this project. Each of the members in my team, including myself, must put in the same amount of effort, work and time in order to make a cohesive and well thought out paper. I have no doubt that we will be able to finish each piece of this project with little stress, as long as we work together and…
In my opinion, there is so much stigma surrounding mental illness because people are uneducated about mental health and the influence it has on a persons total wellness. People who stereotype mental illness as “incompetent” or that they are not “normal” are those who do not have experience with individuals who have mental health disorders. Personally, I have a cousin who has a very rare mental disorder, so I have been surrounded by mental health for the majority of my…
In Clinical this semester I felt very comfortable with the environment of the hospital. I have worked as a CNA for almost four years and knew the operations because of my experiences. Doing full body assessments however was completely new to me, and I felt that with each one I did, it became more familiar to me. I felt that I made a difference in each patient I had even if it was a therapeutic conversation or getting them a…
Empathy and Compassion in Care Nursing is more than a profession. As nursing students, we hear this frequently, but what does it really mean? Nursing as a profession means we are able to competently do skills within our scope of practice and document them accordingly. However, we couldn’t call ourselves nurses without the ability to be compassionate and empathetic towards our patients. Empathy can be expressed as “a feeling, portrayed non-verbally, and includes thoughts and emotions related to understanding patients’…
In my project I did notice some safety concerns just in the medications that my client was taking. Since she was on so many antihypertensive medications this increases her risk for developing the adverse effects that these medications may cause. Most of the antihypertensives caused the same adverse effects which would increase her risk even more. The most concerning and most common adverse effect among the medications she was taking was drowsiness which increases her risk of falls and other…
This piece of art is very special to me, it shows so much in just a simple drawing and it is also drawn by my very talented big sister. When I look at this drawing I see a rib cage along with the thoracic spine leading to the pelvic bone, however it is not just any ordinary skeleton. Weaved into the detailed drawing of human bones are beautiful pieces of nature which can mean many different things depending on the…
