Intensive care medicine

Event It was an event, while I was working in an Intensive care Unit (ICU) as a registered nurse after completing proficiency certificate in Nursing (PCL) five years ago at Western Regional Hospitall, Nepal. I was very interested to provide holistic care in ICU setting. When I was on night shift, I was allocated for a male patient admitted with a diagnosis of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). Suddenly, the patient’s oxygen saturation was dropped. Quickly, I administered…

Working in a Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit, has provided me with unique training in this patient population, and I have come to develop a strong passion for this specific community and pace of medicine. As an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP), my goal is to continue to care for this patient population that I am familiar with and have grown to understand. The uniqueness of the Neurocritical patient population requires extensive care that an AGACNP can fully provide.…

working as a neuro-intensive care unit registered nurse for one year at St. Luke’s Medical Center. The experience of working as a registered nurse in the neuro-intensive care unit has been an amazing opportunity to discover my interests in healthcare, build my skills as a nurse, and help determine what area of healthcare I am interested in working in as an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP). I have learned to love caring for patients in the intensive care unit, especially…

Burkhalter, E. (2014, January 25). FDA 's new policy on animal antibiotic use draws scrutiny from farmers, advocates and industry. Anniston Star, The (AL). [popular] This article is from an Alabama Newspaper and discusses the effects of regulating antibiotics in the poultry and cattle industry. I plan on using this article because it provides quotes from experts in the cattle and poultry production industry. Experts in the cattle and poultry industry worry “the changing of the way farmers…

In the future, I would devote myself to study the brain and learn about the miracle of life, makes us able to dream, think, and exist, however, I am open to explore and learn about the different specialties of medicine. I had the opportunity to visit Omaha, Nebraska as an observer of a neurologist, Dr. Torres. Throughout that month I learned about different diseases like Parkinson 's and how by blocking cholesterol formation in the brain could potentially protect…

different. People died of illnesses that are now treatable. Medicine played a small part in death. The culture of death was omnipresent or…

and treated, saw cases of croup and learned how the disease differed from epiglottitis, and saw children with severe asthmatic attacks being carried into the emergency room, and following the appropriate treatment, allowed to walk out of the emergency room as if nothing had ever happened. Call taught me many things about people as well. I learned a claim by a North Philadelphia mother that her child had "weasels in his chest" really meant the child was asthmatic and wheezing. I also learned,…

Hello I am Marcus Mims and I am from Glen Ellyn. Throughout my life their are many of things that have drew my interest towards medicine . One of the first things that made me interested in medicine is like my life story, because my life has has hugely been effect by medicine. To begin my life story, I am a twin which as effected my life a lot. I was born premature at 26 weeks, weighing only 1 pound 8 ounces spending 68 in the NICU. This time was difficult for my parents but they never gave up…

license I would like to specialize in neonatal medicine. “The neonatal period is defined as the first month of life; however, these newborns are often sick for months” (National Association of Neonatal Nurses). Some of the problems that a neonatal nurse works with is prematurity, birth defects, surgical problems, and cardiac malformations to name a few. Depending on the institution, further education varies but experience working in a neonatal intensive care unit as an RN is preferred as a…

Levine Children’s Hospital (LCH) is the one of the largest children’s hospitals between Atlanta and Washington, DC. The 12-story, 234-bed facility first opened in October 2007. LCH provides a comprehensive level of pediatric care in over thirty areas of pediatric medicine and treats more pediatric patients per day than any other hospital in North Carolina. The children’s hospital has also been recognized and…