Nursing assistant skills

Rushing to my mother’s side, her face was as white as a ghost, her lips were a purplish-blue color and she was shaking uncontrollably. My nursing assistant skills kicked in immediately, quickly assessing the situation realizing my mother was in septic shock. Barely conscious, I began asking her simple yes or no questions to understand as best I could as to what she was feeling. She did not have any strength, I scooted her up and swung her legs off the bed pushing my mother to rely upon me. Before taking her to the SUV, I noticed she needed to be bathed she had lost control over her abilities to go to the bathroom; her body was shutting down quickly. It was a struggle walking the twenty feet to the bathroom with her leaning on me for support. Wanting to scream and yell out to my father for help, I could not, remembering that he was outside cleaning the car off from the snow storm we just…

expressed – whether I tend to agree or not. As mentioned before, as someone that is categorized by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Ethics, I believe in the importance of treating others just as I would want to be treated. Therefore, when I previously worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant, I ensured that I cared for all the residents in a way that I believed to constituted as respectfulness. After all, had the roles been reversed and if I had been in their position, I would ask for the same…

Background and Significance of Problem. This paper will provide an outline to reduce falls by implementing education on the proper utilization of bed and chair alarms, and adequate communication between nurses and certified nursing assistants, rather than lack of education regarding fall tools and not utilizing standardized safety tools in a postoperative orthopedic surgical unit, where the fall rate have increased recently. To prevent patient injury and decrease falls nurses need to communicate…

I know with a little help from my teachers, support from my family, and determination towards myself, I was on my way to fluently speak and understand the medical dictionary. After three rigorous years of high school, the first day of senior year was finally upon me. However, my schedule wasn’t the typical walk in the park, in fact it wasn’t even at my own high school. This year I would be attending Grace Davis high school for my first two periods of class due to the ROP Medical…

Being a certified nursing assistant (CNA) for elderly comes with many challenges, and I didn’t discover this until after did my clinical at a nursing home. There, I observed many opportunities for learning and growth in long-term care. With the permission of my instructor, I explored around and had a little time to communicate with the senior citizens. I continued to make observations and found that communicating with the elderly presents difficulties that impact the CNA’s ability to implement…

movies and or television. My dad and I do not really communicate a lot after he closed his business: Arioso Construction Inc. In December of 2014. Moreover, I spend a lot of time with Brooke Taylor, to me she is my best-friend, lover, girl-friend and the mother of my son, Adrian Ray Taylor whom is now two years old as of November, 2014. Brooke and I have grown up with each-other since we were both about eleven years old. We have seen each-other with other people and put each-other through a lot…

An assisted living facility, or nursing home, is a long term senior care option that provides personal care services to geriatric or injured patients. Assisted living communities provide basic medical monitoring as well as activities of daily living (ADLs). For this field work assignment, I visited ManorCare Health Services, an assisted living and rehab facility located in Towson, MD. This specific location specializes in ensuring vital medical care and rehabilitation in a warm and caring…

foods”(George Krucik, MD, MBA). Certified nursing assistants have to realize that their patient’s osteoarthritis will reduce their mobility and make it harder for them to do daily activities. Certified nursing assistants are able to help carry out care plans but they can never make the patient’s care plan. They can help check the patient’s range of motion but if there is any complaint of pain they have to report it to the nurse or the doctor. Some days the patient will have good range of…

fields such as business management. Along with this, I took more specific courses such as medical terminology. That is when my door opened to the Health Sciences. When I took medical terminology I thought it was just another step in my path to find out a possible future. I had no idea that this was it; this is what occupied my attention and now is my primary focus of every day. Before medical terminology, I did not have a very good idea of how the human body worked. This class reintroduced me…

research and data that scientists or doctors do to increase awareness speed is becoming an issue now rather than an advantage. There must be an adequate knowledge management. Today this is now looking to make research sources are more reliable and not manipulated by anyone with a computer and information distortion you. It is important that a responsible culture to younger continue with their studies and not leaving the classroom and more especially of diffusion is what really is the value of…