First Reflective Journal of my first clinical experience
Elizette Merville
11/07/14
On august 2013; I remember I was so happy to start the nursing program. At the same time I was scared of the road ahead of me. That is exactly how I felt Monday at clinical. I am very happy to be able to go to the hospital due to the fact I’ am going to be face with real life situations. At the same time I’ am praying for no error anytime. I acknowledge this is a learning experience for me so I will not be so hard on myself. I will ask questions when I’m not sure or do not know something. My two wonderful professors are going to push me to make sure I learn all the skills I need to know.
The first thing we did was learn how to use the system. Learn where to go look up our patient information. We also learn where to do our documentation. For some reason I was having difficult time locating some of the informations. I know with more practices I will become better at using the system. The second thing we did was ? over the policies and produces. To ensure we know how the hospital wants us to carry our self and do things the right way. I learned that there are two different hands restricts. After then that is when we was taking further back to look at some different IV pumps and how to operate them. To me I believe that is my biggest challenge yet. I would love to start an IV and operate the pump all by myself. We also learned the proper way to introduce our self to the patients. I like how the hospital has the patients’ room set up. Due to the fact there is a broad that tell the medical staff about the patient and the reason for the hospital stay. The hospital seems like they have many patients with different kind of illness. After that we were able to take a tour around the department. We had met different nurses who were ready to train us. I just hope that when we start next Monday they have an open mind and let us help them. The clean holding was well ordinaries, which will make it less stress full to find materials. Due
11/07/14
On august 2013; I remember I was so happy to start the nursing program. At the same time I was scared of the road ahead of me. That is exactly how I felt Monday at clinical. I am very happy to be able to go to the hospital due to the fact I’ am going to be face with real life situations. At the same time I’ am praying for no error anytime. I acknowledge this is a learning experience for me so I will not be so hard on myself. I will ask questions when I’m not sure or do not know something. My two wonderful professors are going to push me to make sure I learn all the skills I need to know.
The first thing we did was learn how to use the system. Learn where to go look up our patient information. We also learn where to do our documentation. For some reason I was having difficult time locating some of the informations. I know with more practices I will become better at using the system. The second thing we did was ? over the policies and produces. To ensure we know how the hospital wants us to carry our self and do things the right way. I learned that there are two different hands restricts. After then that is when we was taking further back to look at some different IV pumps and how to operate them. To me I believe that is my biggest challenge yet. I would love to start an IV and operate the pump all by myself. We also learned the proper way to introduce our self to the patients. I like how the hospital has the patients’ room set up. Due to the fact there is a broad that tell the medical staff about the patient and the reason for the hospital stay. The hospital seems like they have many patients with different kind of illness. After that we were able to take a tour around the department. We had met different nurses who were ready to train us. I just hope that when we start next Monday they have an open mind and let us help them. The clean holding was well ordinaries, which will make it less stress full to find materials. Due