My personnel strengths during this clinical experience included my willingness to learn, my openness to new experiences, and my ability to communicate. My biggest limitations for this clinical experience are that I can be overly sensitive, lack of clinical skills, and my desire not to make mistakes. I feel that because I am eager to learn and I really do enjoy new experiences is the reason why shadowing the nurse was such an eye opening experiences. I do tend to be overly sensitive but I can recognize the feelings within myself when that is happening most of the time that I can tell myself its not about me and get over those negative feelings. After shadowing the nurse, I now understand that clinical skills come with clinical experience and
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I will learn from my mistakes. That there will be times that I won’t know how to do something and that it’s okay to ask for help.
We have learned that social, cultural, and ethical factors influence patient care. I never understood really how much these factors influenced care until this morning. The nurse showed me that some families can be very demanding. She took time to answer their questions she even pulled up test results when she was unsure of the results. When she did not know the answers, she sent the doctor a note so that when he came in the room he would know what questions the family was asking.
Today I watched the nurse make many clinical decisions. On this morning, the nurse I was shadowing had a newly admitted patient. We had been in her room most of the morning and the nurse had others she needed to assess. This patient was in pain and wanted pain medication. The patient wanted to take try to take 2mg of a pain medication instead of the 4mg that was prescribed by her doctor. The nurse could have easily have said no that doctor order it this way but the nurse took time to call the doctors office and get the order
I will learn from my mistakes. That there will be times that I won’t know how to do something and that it’s okay to ask for help.
We have learned that social, cultural, and ethical factors influence patient care. I never understood really how much these factors influenced care until this morning. The nurse showed me that some families can be very demanding. She took time to answer their questions she even pulled up test results when she was unsure of the results. When she did not know the answers, she sent the doctor a note so that when he came in the room he would know what questions the family was asking.
Today I watched the nurse make many clinical decisions. On this morning, the nurse I was shadowing had a newly admitted patient. We had been in her room most of the morning and the nurse had others she needed to assess. This patient was in pain and wanted pain medication. The patient wanted to take try to take 2mg of a pain medication instead of the 4mg that was prescribed by her doctor. The nurse could have easily have said no that doctor order it this way but the nurse took time to call the doctors office and get the order