Through my clinical experience, I learned that being able to empathize with your patient is very important in the healthcare field. The first week I was at Panorama City, I helped some CNAs turn a patient so they can change her dressing on a bedsore that she had got from another nursing home. The whole time she was fighting us, yelling at us, and scratching us.…
In this case my mother’s struggles made me want to enter the medical field as an anesthesiologist. When my mom was recently diagnosed with a herniated disc in her lower back, her PTSD became much worse along with her endless discomfort. She saw a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) and got an injection to ease her pain. I was amazed to notice how much of an impact a CRNA could have on not only her body, but her mind as well. When I saw how she was much more at ease after the pain in her leg subsided, I realized that doctors fix more than they possibly know.…
As an undergraduate, I gained invaluable hands-on clinical experience working in the University Health Services Clinic. I was able to directly interact with the patients, listen to their concerns, take their vitals, and network with nurses, practitioners and physicians about their condition and treatment plan. I worked on a team of medical professionals…
The pain began slowly, pricking me with its sharp needles only while doing barre in ballet once a week. I ignored it, believing it to be normal, common discomfort that would soon go away, typical thoughts of a dancer whose entire sport is centered around “good pain”. Six months later, it had escalated to the degree that every step I took felt like an arrow to my knee. Dancing had become impossible, and it was determined that I should be taken to the orthopedist. The bland, brown and beige lobby became extraordinarily familiar as I waited two hours to be examined.…
This week I was at the Vine one day, and I also started my clinical at the Health Department. For the Vine Clinic, I did a three siblings 72 hours intake. They were all boys. I felt bad for those boys for the difficult environment they were living in. Those boys’ parents are currently not allowed to visit them due the verbal abuse and domestic violence.…
My mother was stabbed when I was 11 years old. As a result she isolated herself socially and suffered from schizophrenia. The impact the health professionals had upon my mother's situation and the way they reassured me, gave me hope in trying conditions. From this time onwards, it has been my dream to study medicine. I want to make a physical, emotional and social difference to the lives of people.…
I have worked in clinics as well as emergency rooms and have observed doctors and patients in both settings. I have seen how the help of a caring doctor can ease a patient’s fears, and how a patient-doctor relationship can become a strong bond that lasts for many years. The doctors that I have worked with have motivated me in my career goals and I look forward to the day when I can practice like…
Experiencing how patients were treated showed me how proficient doctors are. Seeing the ability to treat patients with care whilst using their medical knowledge simultaneously simply astounded me. The demands of doctors are numerous however I could not see any signs of distress upon their faces. I learnt that it is this quality gives confidence to…
There are approximately 397,000 children in foster care in the United States of America currently and I used to be one of them. However, foster had not even been near the forefront of my mind that summer. The summer before I started my first year of high school, I had plenty of anxiety about the tall tale I invented in my own mind that stood before me. Stories about how hard high school were numerous and often regaled on the crowded bus ride home by high schoolers who seemed to have the knowledge of every wise teacher in history combined. which that scared me to death; I had always held my position as a good student who followed the rules of my middle school.…
My professional experience allows me to be an outstanding candidate for this position given that I have been taught by outstanding mentors and teachers of my past. I have learned and the incorporated various teachings. Teaching such as Professionalism and Work Ethics these I feel are experiences that I plan to pass to youth so our future can prosper with positive generations.…
As talked about in the text, nursing students can experience significant anxiety, uncertainty, and feelings of abandonment when we first encounter a complex health care environment. (Christiansen and Bell, p. 804) Clinical experience is a great learning tool, but as you talked about in your post it can be very overwhelming to nursing students. I know personally that I am very nervous to start taking care of my own patient next week at my clinical site at KU Rehabilitation Center. Knowing that I have my peers with me and that we can help each other along the way is something that I am very thankful for.…
Knowing how to respond to someone who was going through difficult medical treatments, like chemotherapy, or who had lost someone was difficult. Yet the longer I worked in the hospital the more I started to get the sense that tip toeing around patients and families was unnecessary. It just added to the load of their already emotional journey. This was a good lesson to learn early on because illness, death, and dying is a reality of life that I will most likely come into contact with as a counselor. Moreover, working in a hospital was beneficial because I saw how medical professionals interacted with each other and their clients.…
I was scared. It wasn’t my first time in a emergency room getting stitches but it was the first time that i saw all that blood. I was getting light headed with my grandma telling me not close my eyes. I thought she was exaggerating like she always does…
An experience that changed my life was on May 19th, 2014, my brother’s death. It changed my life in a positive and negative way. You would think that death would devastate someone for the rest of their life, but my brother’s death actually changed my life. I’m not saying that his death didn’t have a negative effect on me, but it had more of a positive effect on me than anything. His death made me an introvert, think for myself, and see things differently.…
doctors would see the patients. It was such that to allow all patients to seek treatment. It felt like a new environment for me and made me cautious about all things as I was there. I then went to an office to find the nurse in charge, where instead I met a man named Peter.…