My First Nursing Home-Personal Narrative

Improved Essays
On a fairly warm summer day, I was in the street practicing my throws for my next baseball game. I didn't have a regular target, but I saw a cat and I hated cats. I was trying to hit the cat off of the fence. I was bored because my father was at work. These two nice men came by and ask me if I wanted candy and a field trip. I didn't like candy so I hurled a rock and got him right in the eye.

These two men were weaker than a hundred year old woman. I said "My grandmother is in a nursing home and she is stronger than you!" I was curious as to where they were trying to take me so I gave up and helped them from the ground and walk into their ragged car. The men had a conversation about some money on the way to the destination. Then I made a joke saying "Are you going to use the money to buy a new car, because my grandmothers’ scooter moves faster than this."
…show more content…
We played a few games and I was just so tickled while pranking Mr. Bill. I really liked Mr. Bill because he was really funny. I had my rifle and I was watching for those sneaky scouts. One morning I got Bill really good by grabbing a knife and sitting on his chest and I made him scream like a

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    During the past six (6) months Mrs. Lewis who was the head nurse on the medical surgical floor in the local community hospital has been noticing that all patients who have been admitted from the Shady Rest Nursing Home had severe injuries that were not connected with their admitting diagnosis. Which led her to believe the nursing home was abusing the patient and led her to investigate and contacted the Department of Welfare Bureau of Inspection, which immediately found proof of abuse. But when Mrs. Lewis was confronted by her hospital administrator over this investigation, she was “warned” threatened that she would be fired if she reports any other instances of abuse, since Shady Rest provides a lot of business for the hospital, and that “good relations had to be maintained”. Mrs. Lewis further found out that the Administrator was good buddy’s and a golf partner with the owner of Shady Rest, but didn’t care because she contacted an attorney who threatened the hospital with exposure and penalizes if it in…

    • 1119 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Kickball Research Paper

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Back against the wall I was ready to block a push. It was PE we were playing kickball and I was fifth in line to kick, and I was probably going to kick if it wasn't for this guy and his four friends. We just came back from the outfield and the kicking started good…

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I had arrived early at 2:25pm to start at Spanish Meadows Nursing Home. I assisted in the dining room by setting the table with gift prizes on separate tables: left had a gift for women, middle a special gift for anyone, and right had a gift for men. It was on Thursday during class that there was a bag and tissue only in pink and blue with two things. I bought four more gift bags and tissue paper from Dollar General. There were six gifts: three divisions of woman and man is the color of pink, purple, and blues.…

    • 384 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As of year 2015, there were 120 residents in Kamehameha Nursing Home who suffered physical injuries because of falls. This is an alarming rate as the number of falls tremendously increased. Because of the alarming increased rate of fall in Kamehameha Nursing Home, needs assessments were conducted to identify risk factors and ways to address it. The aims of the needs assessment were: a. Determining the causes of falls…

    • 911 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    One time over the summer, I went to Florida with my neighbors and had a great time until something went wrong. We went out to eat and there was this game called Big Jenga. Big Jenga is the game Jenga but with big bricks. We were playing the game and I asked my neighbor, Mady, not to push it over but she didn’t hear me and pushes it over.…

    • 79 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    My Job as a CNA in a Nursing Home I work as a CNA, and while the job can be hectic, it can also be very rewarding. My first thought after I decided to get into this profession was, “what was I thinking”. After you get into a routine it’s a great experience.…

    • 354 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    One day my friend had me over to his house and we played games and ran around all night, then when it was morning we were bored and we decided we wanted to play a video game and we decided that we would fight to see who would get the comfy chair. Little did we know that it was not a good idea!!! We ended up fighting for the chair and he jumped on it and then I tried to get it by jumping on him and forcing him out but instead we spun around and around. I ended up falling off and was so dizzy that I stumbled and hit the fire plays head first and got a big old goose egg! I learned not to jump on a spinny chair, let alone with another person on it.…

    • 234 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    On a warm starry night, I was out at a softball game of my dad’s at the Eureka Lake. I was with friends, we were messing around. Little did we know what was going to be hit upon us. I was at my dad’s softball game and my friends were there too. Their dad was on the other team.…

    • 242 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I started running as my player hit the box, I took off my cheats hit the ground they slammed pulling up the rubber beads as I ran. I set up against the player coming down I put my pole in front of me and poke the opposing player. It was a warm cool summer day with a nice windy breeze, I was in maryland for a lacrosse tournament. I was playing for my travel team Koopers and were playing against one of our rivales Crabs lacrosse we were both one of the best teams in maryland and top 10 in the world.…

    • 601 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    One summer morning when I was about six years old, my family and I went to a dog show in Frankenmuth. We went from activity to activity just having a good time. We went to a bounce house, and my siblings and I jumped around for a few minutes and then got off. We got ready to leave the bounce houses when I turned my back on my family for a few seconds.…

    • 1019 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    It was a warm April afternoon. Everyone on the softball team was dismissed at 9th period (2:15 p.m.). We waited for our bus to come and take us to Upper Perk. When everyone loaded the bus, you can smell confidence in the air. As the 7th and 8th grade teams waited for their coaches and the bus, we sat and talked about how bad the hallway smelled because it was the hallway to the boy’s locker room.…

    • 555 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    7:50: This morning I’m back at the nursing home! I’m sitting on the opposite wall that I sat on yesterday, so a different perspective. I’m facing the nursing station which is very nice. There is a wall of cabinets on the left and the desk with computers on the right.…

    • 2200 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    “No I’ll go I’m a cross country runner,” My sister replied. “No you won’t, I’ll never forgive myself if something happened to you,” My dad replied. Once there was a break in cars my dad got out of the car walked quickly to the back of the truck. And started taking pictures of the wheel to show the mechanics.…

    • 1148 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    It was a very nice summer evening, the sun was just starting to set behind us as I drove down the highway. Without a worry, the music was blaring and there was a lot of singing and laughing going on in the car. Three of my friends and I were on our way to a movie in Spirit Lake, when the trip took an unexpected turn. Now, instead of going to the movie, I was going to have to go to court. I quickly pulled to the side of the road and rolled down my window for the man that was standing there.…

    • 1331 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As approaching my senior year in highschool there were a lot of great things to come ahead. Like whether to leave the state for college and most of all what to major in. As my major of choice found its way to be the topic of discussion in most cases , I often would run into my childhood dreams of having a wealthy life and taking care of others. The many aspects of my life from my mother being a diabetic and my grandmother having alzheimers would often lead me to the smarter carrer, nursing . To me, being a nurse is not just a job, it’s a life long journey that I would love to embark on .…

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays