Essay On Clinical Reflection

For this fourth clinical, I was more aware of what I was expected to due. I chose two patients, both begin female. I was happy to have two female patients this time around. My primary patient for clinical was an eighty-five-year-old female who had been admitted for adult failure to thrive. I kept my patient’s admission diagnosis in my mind, and was informed that she had been previously emotional due to being discussed about her new living situation. She was now going to go live at a nursing home and she wasn’t happy about it; she was upset but hoped for the best. I believe I was lucky with my patient as she communicated very well with me during clinical and I enjoyed my time with her. It was great watching my patient color in her coloring book, which she was doing really well with it.
Noticing
What I had initially noticed when I first visited her during clinical was that she was tired but alert and oriented to the situation. She was a very nice lady, who was comfortable of me being a nursing student. Each time that I conversed with her she would always mentioned about going to a nursing home, she would express how her kids didn’t want her to return to independent living. That was something I kept noticing with my patient how she was in disagreement with her family about leaving her home, she was comfortable
I expressed my compassion towards my patient by being her support system during the clinical time as she didn’t have any family members with her. I made sure to listen and to be opened minded to what my patient had to say. We are there for the patient and making sure that my patient’s needs were taken care of, was an important aspect in caring for her. Sometimes patient’s just need someone they can talk to, and I made to be available for my patient so she may share her thoughts and feelings; my patient did well of sharing her thoughts with me as we