PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
As a nurse, one must care for patients that focus on their diagnoses and their individualized needs. Every patient is different from each other and some may need a higher level of care when compared to others. Depending on their diagnoses, different type of care are implemented. There was one time during clinical where I had a patient who was immobile and had a difficult time feeding himself. The nurses and PCA all had other important tasks to be done than be able to help this patient fed. As a student nurse, it is my role to provide patient-centered care and advocate for their needs. I went and helped him eat his meals so that he's able to get nutrition. After his family came in and saw we were caring for him by helping him eat, it helped to maintain a trusting relationship. As nurses, it's our responsibility to advocate and always prioritize our patient's needs.
As a nursing student, teamwork and collaboration are always helpful to get things done. Nursing school can come with a lot of material to learn, but with the help of each other holding each other's back can make the work feel much lighter. For group projects, we work with our clinical group as a team to meet the desired goal. During clinical, I collaborate with previous shift nurses, providers, PCA's, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, and even wound nurses to help in the care for our patients. Collaborating and working as a team helps with communication as well so that everyone is updated with the plan and stays on top of each other. This helps to maintain our patient's safety and promote effective care.
As a nursing student, teamwork and collaboration are always helpful to get things done. Nursing school can come with a lot of material to learn, but with the help of each other holding each other's back can make the work feel much lighter. For group projects, we work with our clinical group as a team to meet the desired goal. During clinical, I collaborate with previous shift nurses, providers, PCA's, physical therapists, occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, and even wound nurses to help in the care for our patients. Collaborating and working as a team helps with communication as well so that everyone is updated with the plan and stays on top of each other. This helps to maintain our patient's safety and promote effective care.
Our patient's safety is the most priority we have we providing care for them. Patient's give their life in our hands, and it is our responsibility to take care of them to become well. This competency is met for example during medication administration by following the 7 Rights of Medication Adminsitration. This helps to make sure there is no fault from an administers point of view and it's safe for our patients. I also assess for safety by making sure the patient's bed alarm is on, monitors are on and monitoring vital signs properly, making sure their call bell is reachable, maintiang HIPPA policies, and even assessing vital signs before and after medication administration.
I have prior experience using electronic health record software such as Powerchart and Epic during my previous job before entering nursing school. When I was a Medical Assistant, my employer had used both software at our clinic and I also have gone through training with these programs. This had helped me as a student nurse to be familiar with the program by having more knowledge and exposure to them initially when compared to other students. This allowed me to easily adapt to the way of my clinical unit charts their patient's information without having to struggle. This prior exposure had helped me understand all the resources these programs provide to help give effective and proper patient care to our patients.
As part of nursing school, I use a handbook that has all the Nursing Diagnosis that we can have in our medical field. This way, I am able to make sure my interventions are supported by evidence. This helps to understand why one diagnosis is related to each other and why certain interventions are performed for what reason. Another example can be that during one of our nursing courses called Health Assessment, we learned the reliability and accuracy of manual blood pressures versus automatic blood pressures. We learned through experimentation and researching that manual blood pressure are more reliable as well as more accurate. The most reliable blood pressure in fact is the mean blood pressure obtained from an arterial line. Since this is supported by research, I always try to do manual blood pressure, especially in a very hypertensive or hypotensive patient before bringing the attention to a provider/nurse.