Patience

Description of Research Any injury or damage to your brain can result in devastating motor or cognitive lost. The extent of this lost typically depends on the amount of damage caused and the point of injury. After receiving a brain injury, the most severe form of motor disability someone can have is Locked-in syndrome (LIS) (Pistoia et al., 2016). “It is the consequence of ventral brainstem damage as a result of vascular or traumatic lesions disconnecting corticospinal and corticobulbar…

Before I even started reading the article I thought about how hard it would be for myself to go in every day and see patients and that patients may or may not remember. I know in the begging it would be very hard for me to do this, but I feel as time went on that I would get used to it. I would need to remind myself that I’m not only there for the patients, but also their families too. Once I read the article it really opened my eyes and made me think this might be something I would like to do.…

Before I do anything I would first make sure it’s in my scope of practice. If I’m a Cardiologist (heart doctor) I won’t be questioning a PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) treatment that an OBGYN (female reproductive system doctor) ordered. Once I know that it’s in my scope of practice and I’m practicing role fidelity I will proceed to the next step which could be one of two things. Either I can approach my colleague or go straight to the whistle blowing protocol but in this case I’ll approach my…

The Theory of Comfort was developed by Katharine Kolcaba in the 1990’s when she was a graduate student. Kolcaba’s Comfort Theory was a springboard off of her thesis and dissertation and Kolcaba revealed in a documentary she retired from teaching to focus on her Nursing Theory (Kolcaba, 2010). Kolcaba focus on comfort was bred from a systematic interdisciplinary literature review (Kolcaba, 2010). The Comfort Theory is considered a middle-range nursing theory because the focus is a more…

Adaptability. Compassion. Patience. Three things I know a lot about. I was a skater and hockey player. I studied with a world champ skimboarder. I hiked, rock climbed, excelled in swimming and diving, and ran cross-country. I snowboarded on Mammoth Mountain. Everything was a great adventure for me and nothing seemed impossible…at least not until I was sixteen, when my life turned upside down. I just started high school, but was always exhausted. I woke up every day feeling like I had…

Accounting for Patient Preferences/Individuality, Setting and Clinical Expertise The main point of providing options to patients it for their individual preferences. Sometimes in when patients are taken from their homes and places in to hospital or nursing homes they lose their independence (cite). This loss of independence can cause depression or anxiety (cite). This might be able to be changed if nurse can provide patients with options that are individual to them. By giving a patients a…

This week was the first time I am debating whether I should be in the clinical or staying at home to study the exam that is coming up. I have been study so much for the exam and I felt like I still have tons of study to do. I have always looking forward to clinical, but this time I felt like if I don’t do well on my exam, I won’t become a nurse. That’s why I have this conflict in my mind. Despite what was on my mind the night before, I drag my tired body up in the early morning of clinical day…

I chose the practicum site, OHSU AYA program, in the beginning because I wanted experience working in a hospital. I felt that it was vital for me to practice my interaction patterns with hospital staff and patients. I chose to work with cancer patients specifically because they are very important to me. Having been a cancer patients I understood the need of these patients and wanted to give back. Also, I wanted to find out if this was the right population for me to work with. The age group this…

Codes allow a hospital to create a solid framework, which will ultimately provide safety for everyone inside the hospital. a. Procedures and codes ensure clear expectations on how to function in the hospital’s environment for all employees, patients, and visitors. i. Sometimes, clear expectations are not always clear for visitors, patients, and employees. ii. For example, if the expectations is said that all employees are not to use cell phones during work hours, but the employer did not…

This week’s reading made me introspect about my personal opinions and emotions during crucial conversations. Honestly, I was taken aback when Patterson Grenny, McMillan, and Switzler(2012) discussed we, ourselves are the reason to create emotions that upset us (frustration, anger, fear, and insult). Further, the authors discuss that once these emotions are created we either act on them or be acted on by them (p.104). Last week, I faced a not-so-pleasant situation with one of the certified…