This week’s clinical experiences were full of emotional ups and downs. First of all, I felt worry because I needed to pass my med pass test in order for me to stay in the nursing program; Just the through of making a mistake caused me to feel worry. Secondly, this is the last week of our clinical for this semester, and our clinical group will be separate; this separation caused everyone in the clinical group to feel sad. Third, as always, I always looking forward to my clinical experience, because I learn new thing and having more confidence with each clinical experience. Forth, we have been working very closely with the nurses in 3A unit for the past few months, they taught me a lot of nursing knowledge, and I will miss them so much since I will be working in another Kaiser facility next semester. Finally, I will definitely miss the continuing of learning from my clinical instructor,
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My patient for this week was a young man that admitted to hospital due to pancreatitis. He is independent on all the daily living activities. The only thing I needed to care for him is to make sure his pain level is under control. After I conducted my head to toe assessment, I went to prepare his medications. Since his pain level is at 10/10, the nurse has to give him his pain medication through IV around the clock. After my assessment, the patient requested me to allow him to have rest time because he is really tired. So I respected my patient’s request by leaving him alone and only went to check up on him when the pain medication is due. During the time that my patient was resting, I went around the unit to answer patient’s call light. Two patients besides my own patient that I help during this week’s clinical make a difference in my clinical experience. One patient was one of the patient that I answered the call light for; he is a very young man that just finished his surgery on
My patient for this week was a young man that admitted to hospital due to pancreatitis. He is independent on all the daily living activities. The only thing I needed to care for him is to make sure his pain level is under control. After I conducted my head to toe assessment, I went to prepare his medications. Since his pain level is at 10/10, the nurse has to give him his pain medication through IV around the clock. After my assessment, the patient requested me to allow him to have rest time because he is really tired. So I respected my patient’s request by leaving him alone and only went to check up on him when the pain medication is due. During the time that my patient was resting, I went around the unit to answer patient’s call light. Two patients besides my own patient that I help during this week’s clinical make a difference in my clinical experience. One patient was one of the patient that I answered the call light for; he is a very young man that just finished his surgery on