Personal Narrative: Lessons Learned From A Bed To A Hospital

The goals that I was looking forward to attain for this week were to do a complete bed bath, a gown change, transferring from bed to chair, making an occupied bed.

This week, I cared for a patient that was admitted for both, Hypotension and Cellulites. On Wednesday, I started off the doing the vitals while Andrew got supplies. We then did a bath. From there we changed his linens and brief. I learned that from my mistakes. I turned the patient too much and left the bed raised. I definitely learned from my mistakes. On Thursday, we did a partial bath and linen change first because he had an accident. Then, we did vitals. There were many unexpected situations in which I learned from. One that was the most unexpected was when he had a bowel movement …show more content…
I achieved the changing of a gown and making an occupied bed. I didn’t give a complete bed bath because I didn't do a back massage and my patient was unable to be transferred from bed to chair. It was a worthwhile outcome because I got to achieve new things and learn from my mistakes. It couldn’t have been a better quality experience. I messed up, but i’m learning from my mistakes and knowing me that’s how I learn better. Transferring a patient from a bed to a chair would have been done if had a different patent. Like I said, my patient was unable to get transferred from bed to chair with a transfer …show more content…
I will try to improve on them. There are many things I would do differently, but I would mostly try to organize things better. My disorganization cause me to also wet the linen. The objective I have planned for next week is to complete oral care, ambulating with a gait belt, clean dentures, and to do a complete bed bath. I am excited to move on and learn more, but I also know that there's things I have to work on. I learned that good communication with the patient is key. It makes the caring of a patient go smoother and