Personal Narrative: My Job Shadow

My Job Shadow was October 7th, 2017, at Waldo County General Hospital. Waldo County General Hospital is a small hospital in Belfast, Maine. The RN I had followed was named John, he use to work for the military, so he had a lot of experience in different aspects of nursing. He works with my mom in the Intensive Care Unit. I got there around 6:00 am, and was stuck there for the whole work day, because my mom brought me to my job shadow and she also had to work. The day was pretty slow for the most part, a lot of the patients had been discharged. However, since the day was slow in the ICU, and I was going to be there all day, I was allowed to job shadow a Wound Care nurse. Which was really interesting, because I got to see a different career within nursing. What was really surprising to me about the RN role was how calm they maintained themselves in different …show more content…
So, not only are you taking care of your patients, you also have to be open to helping other nurses with their patients. You're also responsible to document things correctly. I got to see how they used there online system for documenting, and there were things about a certain patient who was NPO, but the patient was doing much better, and the nurses weren't sure if they were suppose to feed him or not. So, the RN talked to the Physician, and got the permission to give the patient food. I can't really pinpoint any examples of the RN using nursing ethics, they probably just weren't apparent to me. However, I believe one example of ethics would be for the elderly patient with the perforated bowel would be they had to decide whether to push her through surgery, or whether hospice would be the better option. Even though the nurses felt they should try surgery, they waited for the patient and their family's consent on what to do. There were no spiritual or cultural issues. None of the patients asked for spiritual care when they were admitted to the