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Before deciding to go back to school for my BSN, I was able to work at Olympia Medical Center for 7 months as a medical-surgical nurse. I worked the evening shift (3 to 11 pm), which allowed me to gain experience handling 5 patients with different acuities and diseases processes. Furthermore, I was able to both experience admitting and discharging patients since my shift was considered the busiest. I was also appointed as…
My career profession is to become a speech pathologist. This career is broad because there are so many things that we can specialize in and there are many choices of settings that we can choose to work in. One of those settings is to work in the hospital. When a speech pathologist works in a hospital setting, he/she is going to be communicating with the doctor regarding their patient so having knowledge about the human body externally and internally is extremely important. This career choice relates to brain- related disorders because if a patient has a serious brain disorder such as a stroke, a speech pathologist is going to be needed. The stroke could potentially leave one side of the patient’s face paralyzed so the speech pathologist would…
I have enjoyed all the time I spent on the stroke ward during my placement with my mentor the rest of the staff. I had the opportunity to learn new skills every day which made me to know better and improve on practice. One the new skills I learned was giving an IM injection to a patient. Before I had to give the injection, my mentor explained how it is done and then she was there to supervise.…
Provide high-quality patient care as an in-demand per-diem CNA within surgical, acute-care, rehabilitation, home-healthcare and nursing-home settings.…
As a student at Fortis Institute and as an Intern at the North Belt Medical Clinic, I have gained a strong background in biological, health, physiological and behavioral sciences. Hopefully want I learn and the hand training I received will help me threw my life. Having to do the following was a challenge but I had over came it…
My biggest take away point from this rotation was that PTs do a lot of diagnostic work and not all of their patients are doctor referred.…
Outline your developmental trajectory as a student nurse, from novice to competent practitioner. This assignment objectively looks at my developmental trajectory with growth in adult nursing from the novice level, advanced beginner and through to the competent practitioner level. During the duration of my three years of nursing training I have come to realise the obligation on myself as a student and future staff nurse to build the theory and skills base expected of qualified nurse. I shall look at how my learning evolved in the domain Helping role/caring skills on the basis of the Novice to Expert Model (Benner, 1984) but only as far as my current level, competent practitioner.…
B.A. started her career after graduating as a Medical Assistant at Everest College (formerly Bryman College), La Palma in 1991. She worked from 1991 – 1993 at a surgical group practice clinic in Cypress, and was responsible for the back room. She gained clinical experience while assessing patients, taking vital signs, assisting doctors and performing venipunctures and injections.…
I was able to learn a lot about different diagnosis but I’m glad that I was able to see how well the MD and the LPN’s are able to work together. They work as a great team and try to provide each patient with all the infromation that need. They help each other out and make me want to work in an enviroment like this. This was my first time doing a clinic rotation and I was surprised at how many patients are seen each day and how each staff member plays are huge role in the day! I did not know how much the MD truly depends on the LPN’s and RN. Every action that the MD does effects and is determined by the LPN. I was truly surprise at how big team work is in this enviroment.…
For nearly three years, I have worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant in the Medical Intermediate care unit, located at Wheaton Franciscan All-Saints Ascension. I began my work as a CNA at sixteen, during my junior year of high school, and have continued to work at Wheaton ever since. The interview process for my position was exceptionally competitive, hiring only three out of fifty applicants. The unit that I work on serves a broad spectrum of patients: from intensive care, psyche, detox, and post-op, to hospice care and rehabilitation. From a young age, I have excelled as a healthcare professional, and working as a CNA, I can definitely say my experience has been life changing.…
Throughout my time in the ward I have been exposed to a wide range of activities in which I have assisted other health care assistants in doing.…
As a young adult my father suffered two separate heart attacks and had cataracts in both eyes. During this time period, I spent countless hours at Loma Linda hospital shadowing nurses and other medical professionals. It was at this time, I saw how the medical staff at Loma Linda made the total care and wellness of my father along with other patients their top priority. After witnessing this, I knew I would be earing a bachelors degree in nursing.…
At the McAllen and Weslaco NPI clinics, Ms. Rossow allowed me to participate in the care of each patient. Initially, she supervised my head to toe assessment, then helped me to formulate a plan of care for each patient. After assessing my competence, she allowed me to perform each head to toe assessment before her evaluation, share my abnormal findings with her, and my clinical decisions for each patient. Ms. Rossow would…
The waiting room was cold. The walls echoed with sounds of ventilators and heart monitors. I was eighteen. This was my first time in a hospital. My best friend’s brother, Zach, just started treatment in Spokane for his recently diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia. Throughout the next few months, I was able to witness Zach’s recovery which was facilitated by his occupational therapist. Thereafter, I was fixated on pursuing a profession that would allow me to fulfill my passion for helping people. I soon became convinced that occupational therapy was right for me.…