After completing my interview with Melissa, I learned that leadership is all about working as a team and making it known that we are all here for each other. Most authoritarian leaders are not fully successful especially in the healthcare system due to the fact that people are scared to approach these types of leaders. When in truth, everyone should have their center focus on the patient and their well-being, and work as a part of the healthcare team in…
Since completing this project, I learned a lot about the importance of accurate documentation of intake and output, especially for cardiac patients. I thought a lot about different barriers and situations that nurses can run into throughout their shift that could cause inaccurate documentation of intake and output. Barriers such as people bringing drinks to patients without documenting, patients using the restroom without notifying the nurse or forgetting how much fluid a patient got when sitting down to document it. As a team we thought about…
During the Evidence Based Practice I course with Professor Kramlich, I learned a lot about not only evidenced based practice in nursing but also a little taste into what it will be like being a part of the healthcare team. We worked together through zoom and in person, in order to complete our team influence paper about the effect of duration on the incidence of CAUTI. In the future, I will use these teamwork skills that I learned in this…
Abstract Before the pandemic, I would have never thought to constantly wear a mask, second guess going out in public, hesitate to hug my grandmother, have enough food and toilet paper to last, go to college on zoom or to change after work in fear of bringing a virus home to my family. This all became reality during the covid-19 pandemic. No matter what role in society, everyone was affected in some way by this pandemic. Whether it be healthcare…
Since completing the ethics assignments, I’ve added some insight to my understanding of the nurses contribution to ethical conduct and implementation of research. After watching the movie “Miss Ever’s Boys” I learned that not only is it the nurses role to advocate for their patient and promote patient privacy, safety and autonomy, but through education, using research the nurse can provide knowledge to those with knowledge deficits such as those in the movie. through research, nurse Ever’s was able to…
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’…
