A) As a student nurse, how did you contribute to the patient’s safety and high quality care within the health care team?
As a student nurse, I was given the opportunity to help assess one of the patient’s that was fairly new to the floor. When I entered the room, the occupational therapist was in the bathroom with him getting ready to help with a shower and determining his independence for this activity. This gave me a chance to assess his skin integrity along with helping to identify his mobility strength. During my time with him, he expressed to me that he was feeling itchy and, through my assessment, I discovered little red marks all over his back. I communicated my concern with my nurse about his rash, and we were able to obtain itching …show more content…
Before I pricked the patient’s finger, the wife explained to me that she had recently been diagnosed with high blood sugar and needed to start learning how to do it herself along with my patient expressing that he did not understand the process himself. Due to this, I took the time to show the wife and patient the correct technique was acquiring the blood sample and the reasoning behind doing it the way we did. It gave both of them reassurance and provided greater independence for the wife when she is responsible for doing it herself.
B) Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the health care team in the department (i.e., scope of discipline, education, and licensure …show more content…
With the nursing degree, there are different paths to follow. Some choose to do the ladder and starts as a certified nursing assistant (CNA), go onto become a licensed practical nurse (LPN), and then earn their registered nurse (RN) license while others skip the steps and become a RN right away. To achieve a license, one must pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) in order to be considered a registered nurse. The duties of an RN consist of doing physical exams and assessments along with providing medication administration along with other more specific jobs such as repositioning, ambulation, or even wound care (What Nurses Do, 2016). As for an occupation such an occupational therapist, physical therapist, or respiratory therapist, they have different job duties and educational requirements. Each of these careers have to attain an undergraduate degree and then go onto graduation school to either earn a masters or doctoral degree. With these degrees, they are focused on specific elements of patient care including everyday activities, mobility and motor function, and breathing patterns. A physician has to go through at least eight years of schooling and additional couple years with residency. Their main focus requires the disease processes going on in the body and figuring out how to control it and promote healing. They are the ones
As a student nurse, I was given the opportunity to help assess one of the patient’s that was fairly new to the floor. When I entered the room, the occupational therapist was in the bathroom with him getting ready to help with a shower and determining his independence for this activity. This gave me a chance to assess his skin integrity along with helping to identify his mobility strength. During my time with him, he expressed to me that he was feeling itchy and, through my assessment, I discovered little red marks all over his back. I communicated my concern with my nurse about his rash, and we were able to obtain itching …show more content…
Before I pricked the patient’s finger, the wife explained to me that she had recently been diagnosed with high blood sugar and needed to start learning how to do it herself along with my patient expressing that he did not understand the process himself. Due to this, I took the time to show the wife and patient the correct technique was acquiring the blood sample and the reasoning behind doing it the way we did. It gave both of them reassurance and provided greater independence for the wife when she is responsible for doing it herself.
B) Compare/contrast the roles and perspectives of the nursing profession with other care professionals on the health care team in the department (i.e., scope of discipline, education, and licensure …show more content…
With the nursing degree, there are different paths to follow. Some choose to do the ladder and starts as a certified nursing assistant (CNA), go onto become a licensed practical nurse (LPN), and then earn their registered nurse (RN) license while others skip the steps and become a RN right away. To achieve a license, one must pass the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) in order to be considered a registered nurse. The duties of an RN consist of doing physical exams and assessments along with providing medication administration along with other more specific jobs such as repositioning, ambulation, or even wound care (What Nurses Do, 2016). As for an occupation such an occupational therapist, physical therapist, or respiratory therapist, they have different job duties and educational requirements. Each of these careers have to attain an undergraduate degree and then go onto graduation school to either earn a masters or doctoral degree. With these degrees, they are focused on specific elements of patient care including everyday activities, mobility and motor function, and breathing patterns. A physician has to go through at least eight years of schooling and additional couple years with residency. Their main focus requires the disease processes going on in the body and figuring out how to control it and promote healing. They are the ones