My clinical rotation started on June 4th, 2018 just immediately after completing one clinical rotation which I considered as a good transition from CNUR 205 to CNUR 206. We started with an orientation which provided us the necessary information we needed for the clinical experience. The orientation enabled me to be organized and to have an overview of what it means to work in an Accountable Care Unit (ACU). Having spent a week into the clinical experience, my journal will be based on patient’s safety. This journal also shares my experience that prompted me to ask questions like what, So what, and Now what. Patient’s safety is a way of minimizing any acts that is dangerous within the health-care system, and by applying the best practices producing
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This routine is totally different from where I had my 205, though the same medicine unit, but I prepare to learn new things which will enhance my experience and add to my knowledge in this nursing career. The first day went well, I collaborated with the team nurses by assisting them in all patients care within my scope of practice. For instance, I performed all the vital signs on the patients and charted them in the patient’s charts respectively. I also assisted in feeding an independent patient with his meal, provided peri-care for some patients, assisted in lifting, using my Total Lifting and Repositioning (TLR) knowledge, did bed making, and keeping the patient’s room tidy and clean. It was highly demanding, but these tasks kept me busied and enabled me to gradually adjust to the unit’s daily …show more content…
Everything went well in the morning except that I did not do my documentation on time. This act provoked my clinical instructor to interrogate me and asked the reason I did not chart my care on time. I gave my reason but my it was not accepted, then I entered all the tasks I had performed on my patient within that period, but it was late. Then I prompted myself to a question why I found myself behind and what went wrong with my time management. Critically reflecting on this, I discovered I was trying to adjust to the new routine which I believe the first week is enough to make the necessary adjustment. The second incidence I would like to share was about not reporting my vital sign on time to the team nurse. Though after I took the afternoon vital signs on my patient, recorded it on the nurse’s note, and immediately reported to my clinical instructor. The blood pressure (BP) was a little out of the normal range, she asked me to report to the nurse which I did not report immediately. This act of an oversight prompted me to beginning to understand what it means to keep safe with one’s
This routine is totally different from where I had my 205, though the same medicine unit, but I prepare to learn new things which will enhance my experience and add to my knowledge in this nursing career. The first day went well, I collaborated with the team nurses by assisting them in all patients care within my scope of practice. For instance, I performed all the vital signs on the patients and charted them in the patient’s charts respectively. I also assisted in feeding an independent patient with his meal, provided peri-care for some patients, assisted in lifting, using my Total Lifting and Repositioning (TLR) knowledge, did bed making, and keeping the patient’s room tidy and clean. It was highly demanding, but these tasks kept me busied and enabled me to gradually adjust to the unit’s daily …show more content…
Everything went well in the morning except that I did not do my documentation on time. This act provoked my clinical instructor to interrogate me and asked the reason I did not chart my care on time. I gave my reason but my it was not accepted, then I entered all the tasks I had performed on my patient within that period, but it was late. Then I prompted myself to a question why I found myself behind and what went wrong with my time management. Critically reflecting on this, I discovered I was trying to adjust to the new routine which I believe the first week is enough to make the necessary adjustment. The second incidence I would like to share was about not reporting my vital sign on time to the team nurse. Though after I took the afternoon vital signs on my patient, recorded it on the nurse’s note, and immediately reported to my clinical instructor. The blood pressure (BP) was a little out of the normal range, she asked me to report to the nurse which I did not report immediately. This act of an oversight prompted me to beginning to understand what it means to keep safe with one’s