I performed an uncomplicated D&E procedure… went through the task of reassembling the fetal parts in the metal tray. It is an odd ritual that abortion providers perform – required as a clinical safety measure ... – but it also permits us in an odd way to pay respect to the fetus … even as we simultaneously have complete disregard for it. Then I rushed upstairs to take overnight call on labour and delivery. The first patient that came in was prematurely delivering at 23– 24 weeks… Later...…
b. Personally, I think the way social workers providing services should depend on the types of clients we are working with. Working with children is different with working with elderly. Even though both groups demand special care, elderly do not like to be treated as children. Before I started my field placemen at the ELC, I believe that in order to work with children, one should be patient and really love kids. The working experience proved my views were correct.…
Scene: I was at the Joseph N France Hospital St. Kitts. b. Key Action: Maternity Ward walking around with an intravenous therapy, place in my arms. Severe pains, preparing for arriving my daughter, the Doctors and Nurses oversee me for the birth of my daughter. Unfortunately, after 24 hours I was still at 1.5cm. c. Key Participant: Daughter, myself, boyfriend, and family.…
My teaching experience was with a couple at Evans Community Hospital at Fort Carson army base. They were new parents who just had their first child. The father was active military and the mother worked previously but would now be a stay at home mother. They were both in their late twenties. They had many questions about their newborn baby boy.…
I have displayed results leadership by exceeding customer expectations, establishing plans, focusing on execution, and striving for results. This year I was assisting or leading large avionics installations that required extensive interaction with customers and critical time management skills. My goal with customers was to ensure I was provided world class customer service and to help educate them on the new avionics systems that were being installed. We achieved this result and heard several compliments from the customers on our education process and quality of work. Even on the road and at other facilities, we were commended on how professional we represented Gulfstream, which I am positive made a lasting impression.…
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council defines the enrolled nurse (EN) as, an associate to the registered nurse who demonstrates competence in the provision of patient-centred care as specified by the registering authority’s license to practice, educational preparation and context of care (Monash, 2013). As the enrolled nursing is on an on-going learning career, critical thinking, reflection and analysis are vital criteria that a nurse should concern during her duties and studies. Mainly these three points are significant to deliver a quality patient-centred care. Because some nurses that have been learnt these criteria are not applying in their clinical practice. Critical thinking helps ENs to make judgments related to client’s human…
Reflective Journal This journal entry will outline the five principles of knowing; emancipatory, ethical/moral, personal, aesthetic and empiric perspective as states by Chinn and Kramer (2011). Palliative care and compassion during home visits by a community health nurse will also be looked at. I will use these five ways of knowing to reflect on my time during the simulation. 70 years old Mrs. Giggles is a palliative patient living at home.…
A Nurse in Progress I remember when I began my practice as a nurse at the main hospital in my hometown, I was only fifteen years old. By then I had a nerve wracking experience; at first I thought that it would be anything but easy which turned out to be true. I was not aware of the great commitment of the health staff at the time of treating patients, but as weeks passed by I got more familiar with each of the procedures to perform there. I had the opportunity of working directly with individuals suffering from various diseases both physiological and psychological, but the place did not meet the necessary conditions to provide good service.…
Look Back An incident happened to me when I was in a governmental hospital. I saw more than two students capturing babies when they took babies to the baby room. In this reflective journal, I will reflect on this situation. Elaboration I was in a very well known hospital, especially in the maternity ward.…
In the neonatal nursing unit there are a large number of infants suffering in need of as much help as they can get. When I think of how much they have to go through just to live, it motivates me more to become one of their nurses. I recently read a Nursing journal article called “Extremely Preterm infant skin care” by Deanna E. Johnson APRN, NNP- BC, CWON. The actual journal was called Professional Growth and Development. Amongst this journal article, there was a few things in it that represented disciplinary research and writing practices of Nursing.…
I unplugged her monitors and as I did I noted two beautiful heartbeat tracings and continued contractions in a beautiful pattern of every 2 minutes. How ironic that we battle to induce these results in patients who have actually passed their due dates. I felt mocked by Mother Nature as my patient’s labor progressed when we would have preferred to dissuade its arrival for nine more weeks. I unplugged the patient’s bed, breathed deeply, and prayed that the team had arrived as I pushed my patient out the…
A personal reflection I found was in May of 2015. The patient was a female and 87 years old. The first couple of symptoms that were experienced by the patient 's daughter was her mother fell out of bed, could not get up and does not remember that ever happening. After this incident the mother could not live alone anymore and her daughters slept over to see if anything else happens. She was starting to gradually lose her motor skills and was refusing a doctor 's help.…
The Nurses rushed to my attention and I was lifted by those strong arms to the delivery room and placed on the bed. My baby was not wasting any more time. He was ready to see the real world. He was ready to leave that cozy enclosed space that he was accustomed to seeing over the past nine months. One of the Nurses exclaimed that the baby’s head was visible.…
In a human’s life there are important milestones that we all go through such as: marriage, graduating from college, being independent and most importantly giving birth. Delivering a baby is definitely something monumental in a woman’s life because only they can experience the pain and difficulty it took in pushing out that baby. But for some women they tend to try and avoid as much pain as possible and opt for the C-section route vs the natural delivery route. In the past C-sections were not very common but from 2000 to 2007 there has been an increase.…
This nursing program has been an extremely difficult and adventurous journey; however, I realized that every nursing program has to be difficult because we are caring for the lives of people. Nursing is a rigorous field, but a rewarding one. I believe this program his given me the experience and knowledge I need to be able to care for a variety of patients. Throughout this program, I felt the first and third semesters were one of the most difficult ones because of the clinical simulations we had to complete. Truthfully, going through the clinical scenarios is far more difficult than actual patient care simply because we are being closely monitored by our instructors.…