Patient Interview Paper

I had the opportunity to interview an intensive care unit nurse who works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Nancy stated her experience and how she got to be a Neonatal Intensive Care Unite nurse. She talked about the different procedures done in the hospital and how to maintain patient safety. Also, Nancy added how the hospital maintains a patient and family center care environment to help families to cope better with the difficult situation they are going through.
I felt identified with Nancy because she started her nursing education in her late 20’s just like me and graduated nursing school at 30 years old like I will do. She also used to be a Patient Care Technician and knew she wanted to work as a pediatric nurse when she graduates from nursing school. As Nancy …show more content…
Also, she talked about the collaborative patient-centered care. I was comparing the information given by Nancy with the information given during the “Interprofessional Care in the Intensive Care Unit” seminar in class and everything we learned in the seminar is part of actual practice. I learned that interprofessional collaboration is essential in an Intensive Care Unit setting because everyone in the team needs to be aware of what is going on with the patient and have the same plan and agree with the care given to the patient. I also realized that “collaboration implies sharing, partnership, interdependency, but also power'' (Rose., 2011). I believe that interprofessional collaboration is highly important because patients are very critical and need the care of different professions like respiratory therapists, registered nurses, physicians, child life specialists, case managers, occupational therapist among other professionals to obtain the optimal care for the