This year I am currently going to Pierce County Skills Center, it gives me the opportunity to get my feet into the medical field. Ever since I was a little kid I knew that I was going to go into the medical field. The class that I am in is called medical careers, in that class you learn a lot about the medical field such medical terminology, skills, how to talk to patients and much more. On April 17 I had followed a registered nurse and a CNA around a retirement home. She had showed me her ways of doing things.
In the Medical field one important thing to know about is HIPAA. HIPAA is health insurance portability and accountability act. HIPAA is protecting their privacy such as their names, room number, what's wrong with them, their vitals and just mostly everything about is all confidential, you talk about patients only in private rooms so no one would know about their condition. So before I went to go job shadow I had to learn everything first which had taken me a whole semester of highschool. I will …show more content…
It had also showed me how to react in an emergency and how to take roles into giving the patient what they need. The first day I had just followed my CNA around her name was Faith she had told me how they run the facility and how every small thing is important. We answered call lights helped residents shower, brush their teeth, their hair and changed them for the day. Once we had finished we had asked them if they wanted to eat breakfast and if they did they went to the dining room, and if not they had usually went back to sleep. Once breakfast was over we took vital signs on all the patientes on our hall. Vital signs are temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure. Once we had finished that we just answered call lights. Many residents had just needed help going to the bathroom or wanted something to
In the Medical field one important thing to know about is HIPAA. HIPAA is health insurance portability and accountability act. HIPAA is protecting their privacy such as their names, room number, what's wrong with them, their vitals and just mostly everything about is all confidential, you talk about patients only in private rooms so no one would know about their condition. So before I went to go job shadow I had to learn everything first which had taken me a whole semester of highschool. I will …show more content…
It had also showed me how to react in an emergency and how to take roles into giving the patient what they need. The first day I had just followed my CNA around her name was Faith she had told me how they run the facility and how every small thing is important. We answered call lights helped residents shower, brush their teeth, their hair and changed them for the day. Once we had finished we had asked them if they wanted to eat breakfast and if they did they went to the dining room, and if not they had usually went back to sleep. Once breakfast was over we took vital signs on all the patientes on our hall. Vital signs are temperature, pulse, respirations and blood pressure. Once we had finished that we just answered call lights. Many residents had just needed help going to the bathroom or wanted something to