Diverticulitis Reflection

This week I felt excited to be back on the med surgical unit after 4 months being away. I have missed my med surgical rotation so much because I didn’t get to do much during my Ob/Peds rotations. However, because I experienced how Ob/Peds clinical are, I am now sure that I wanted to become a med surgical nurse. This decision also makes me feel more anxiety toward the future examinations because I really want to complete my Nursing school and become the nurse that I wanted to be. But as always, once I step into the unit, I feel so happy to be there. I feel like I am going back to my home and ready to take care my patient because providing the best nursing care for my patient is the only priority in my mind during clinical. This week, my patient was admitted for diverticulitis. I have not had any prior experience for this disease. But since we are learning heart disease and hypertension during lectures this two weeks, I choose this patient because she also has …show more content…
My patient has inspired me to always look at the bright side when life is not going on as the way you wanted to. Through my patient, I learned that diverticulitis is an inflammation of the diverticulum which causes pain and disturbance of bowel function. This explains why my patient is having pain on her lower left quadrant. This disease can also be the reason to cause her nausea. Through my patient, I learned that even though I love to do anything to help my patient to feel comfortable again, but sometime there is nothing I can do to help them; like make her nausea free. I also learned through the patient that I help with the bath that when you are sincerely trying to communicate with someone that having trouble communicating, they will cooperate with you instead of giving you attitude. This week’s clinical experience makes me realized that as long as I put my heart into what I am doing, I will find ways to solve the problems that I