Personal Narrative: My Experience At Norview

During my time at Norview, I have discovered a bunch of unique and interesting skills that I can benefit in my future career. The skill that I first learned was on the very first day going to Norview, the class and I were taught how to feed the residents properly due to their individual medical status. Later on that day we practiced how to properly feed someone, it was a little weird, but funny because we were feeding each other. The very last part we did before we left to go back to school was my class and I tried thickened juice that tasted really good and looked like Jell-O, we also tried thickened water, because of it looking like hand sanitizer I couldn’t drink it. My most favorite skill that I learned was the different type of lifts and how to use them, there were 2 lifts that were shown, the sit to stand lift and the manual patient lift. The sit to stand lift not only uses a machine to help the resident stand and sit, but the resident also helps, this benefits them physiologically and …show more content…
The days I spent at Norview was like home, and everyone has been so nice and welcoming to my class and to myself. I really liked being at Norview because it was an experience that I could learn from and understand things that I’ve never understood before. When I first got to the placement I didn’t talk much and I was really shy while feeding the residences, as the weeks passed, I became less shy and started getting out of my shell. This placement has been a big confidence boost for me, and I’d be so glad to come back. The few things that I disliked was that each student was put into a group and put into an area in the home, I didn’t like the fact that we stayed in the same area for the whole week we have been there for, with the same people all the time. I advise next time to swap to different areas of the house to further experience all aspects and