Monday, October 5th: For the last clinical day at Hampton Homes, I was in the role of doing home visits. We made two homes visits today. Both home visits were to clients I had never visited before. One client talked a very long time about her community and environment. I asked her questions as we talked, and she revealed a lot about the area she lives in. This goes along with learning outcome four, dealing with how the environment influences the health of families, groups, and communities. The client mostly addressed the family dynamic of most families in the community and how it relates to safety. She said that the parents (typically young moms) in the area of Hampton Homes, let their children run all around the community by themselves. Oftentimes,
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There was a lot of dysfunction going on with my patient who had the infection of her stump. Her other problem of obesity complicated her situation and is extending her healing time. We have learned in previous nursing courses like medical surgical nursing that obesity and high fat content, makes the healing process from surgeries and infections take longer. This patient had a recent graft done which is to be used for her hemodialysis, and this will likely take longer to heal. I saw signs of this, and observed this when talking with her physician about her plan of care. We both examined her site and noted that it was reddish pink and irritated. Although he said he did not believe it to be infected at this time, it will take longer for her arm to heal than other …show more content…
I will teach another student how to preform a clinical skill/and or something new I didn’t know by the end of the day. I will help another student with one of their tasks by the end of the day. My patient goals were: My patients will be able to explain what they need to do upon discharge to maintain health. My patients will state ways they will prevent being hospitalized in the future. My patients will question what their medications are for, without being told right away by the time I say I have their
There was a lot of dysfunction going on with my patient who had the infection of her stump. Her other problem of obesity complicated her situation and is extending her healing time. We have learned in previous nursing courses like medical surgical nursing that obesity and high fat content, makes the healing process from surgeries and infections take longer. This patient had a recent graft done which is to be used for her hemodialysis, and this will likely take longer to heal. I saw signs of this, and observed this when talking with her physician about her plan of care. We both examined her site and noted that it was reddish pink and irritated. Although he said he did not believe it to be infected at this time, it will take longer for her arm to heal than other …show more content…
I will teach another student how to preform a clinical skill/and or something new I didn’t know by the end of the day. I will help another student with one of their tasks by the end of the day. My patient goals were: My patients will be able to explain what they need to do upon discharge to maintain health. My patients will state ways they will prevent being hospitalized in the future. My patients will question what their medications are for, without being told right away by the time I say I have their