I had two very rewarding opportunities that allowed me to learn about the health care system.s.The role of a Patient care Assistant in a post surgical intensive care unit was one of these opportunities. I learned technical skills like acquiring, monitoring and recording vital signs, weight checks, and patient input and output measurements. I also learned nursing skills like turning patients, bathing, bed making, skin care, incontinence care, toileting duties and glucose fingersticks. Being in an ICU I also learn to provide supply, support and assist the medical staff with specific procedures like placing, removing and monitoring foleys, urinary catheters, bulb drains, and nasogastric tubes, amongst other things. The most valuable lesson was
