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…
