My First Nursing Job Research Paper

A Reflective Journal: My First Nursing Job What?
It was my first nursing job I was very excited and I didn't ask too many questions. About the position. I would be living and working at a camp for adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. It would be a salaried job consisting of about 40+ hours a week for 12 weeks. The first three weeks, there would only be staff on the camp. I assumed, especially as a new nurse, that I would be doing intensive training during this period. During these three weeks we did some work on the organizations policies, built two plastic cabinets for medications, did some training with and for the staff. We spent time going through the campus charts to see if either signatures or the paperwork itself was missing. Sometimes a doctor or parent would forget to forward paperwork or sign something. All paperwork had to be complete to give clearance for the camper to actually attend camp. I was shown some medication administration records as examples to build my own after. The medication itself would either be mailed or delivered to camp by the Long Island staff but would also literally be brought to camp with the camper themselves. We would be using medication envelopes to …show more content…
Also for the first two week session I only counted out a few days’ worth at a time. This left me trying to catch up as we were expected to start prepping for the next session once we were done. My MARS could have been streamlined better as well, as I would learn throughout each session of camp. There was also something that scared me aside from the making a mistake with medications and procedures that I was not familiar with; and that was seizures. I think what I was truly dreading was dealing with a possible