Bowel Spectroscopy

Wow, was day one or Thursday a crazy day. I’m not even sure where to start!!! When I came up onto the floor; the floor seemed very busy. This was due to the three floor being closed. Unfortunately, my nurse couldn’t give me report and was very busy putting in orders. So I took the time to look at the patient medical record but I feel like there is never time to know everything I want about our patients. As soon as I was done with that I found out that I had a ton of piggy backs for my one patient that my nurse just input into the computer. Since I had Magnesium and Potassium and an antibiotic to be infused at the same time. I had to put in another IV catheter and get a new primary set, 0.9 NS solution and some secondary tubing. Trying to keep …show more content…
I was a bit stressed on this night. My blood pressure was very low and I was not feeling so great from that. So I’m so glad I made it through the night and everything was ok! My other patient had to drink her go-lytely for bowel prep. I had to keep reminding her to drink it because the day before she was not doing that and her colonoscopy was cancel. Other than that my patient just needed some education on her nasal spray and assessment. My other patient, he really didn’t want to be bother by me. For him, I group all his medical care into brunches so I didn’t bug him. I felt like he was afraid to have me as a nurse but I’m not sure why? I showed confients in everything I did and ask him if anything was wrong when he show this body language. I had an IV push for him and make sure I had this ready very early in advance. I have always been told by my patients that I very easy to get along with and very caring. For some reason I just couldn’t get a good therapeutic relationship with him. For day one I really had to learn priotiozing and how to move quickly. Things happening very quickly that night and you had to reassess what was more important a