Reflection On New London Rotation

The New London rotation was a wonderful opportunity to see not only different areas of nursing that I have the opportunity to go into, but also to truly experience and see what patients are going through when they enter a hospital setting due to presenting symptoms or for a surgery. I was able to experience people’s panic and distress when they enter the emergency department and found it particularly enlightening to be able to see how the staff addressed the patient’s increased emotions as well as the emotions of the individuals who were bringing the patients in. I believe it is incredibly important to learn how to correctly identify individual’s emotions, especially in a high stress situation, and be able to address them appropriately. Personally, I don’t not know how to correctly go about in addressing these types of situations and always find it helpful to learn from others who have been doing this for many years and have great experience with it. In both rotations I learned so much more than I thought that I would in the 5 days that I that I was going to be there. I find it difficult to choose …show more content…
I was taught key words and actions that patients would respond to and associate with a safe environment. I also found it interesting how the patient nursing priorities can change between the different phases of the process depending on the patients differ reactions to the different situations, as well as how the staff reacted to the different situations. The staff was so informative on each step of the process in addition to educating me on what the different possible reactions were to different situation as well as the expected and normal responses. The perioperative rotation for me, was the most educational part of my experience at New London