I remembered the moment when I was faced with a dire situation, when I was assistant coaching our local Jr. High Football team. The game was Lowell v.s Gilchrist. It was early in the 3rd quarter when we witnessed one of the players falling without getting hit. The coaches on the other team scrabbled to aid the young athlete, yet they didn’t understand was wrong. I came over to assistant, yet was pushed away, probably because I was only 16 and didn’t look like I could really help. Then I noticed the 6th grader twitching and realized that he was in anaphylactic shock. That’s when I suddenly asserted my place and started barking out orders. Within moments I was in charge and I took over on the care of the child. A woman that came over (I assumed…
I am currently on placement at the Fred Paton Day Care Centre which is a Centre for elderly service users. My role in the facility is to provide support / assistance when required and to help engage service users in activities that are provided by the staff within the organisation. At present I am working with a 62 year old male who has recently suffered from a bad stroke and another recent mini stroke which has left him with limited mobility making some tasks harder for him.…
For my service this year, I was involved with Applecross Opal Nursing Home. Opal age care was a great help to me in opening my eyes to the desperate need for an extra pair of hands and the importance of nursing homes. Not only to the individual admitted in, but also to their families and friends. As I would arrive at 12.00 every time, I would go straight into lending a hand with lunch. Handing out the meals, packing away, cleaning up and keeping an eye on a few of the residents was my first job done. Then I would wonder through the compound talking to the residents, playing and colouring in with them and I would gather and assist them to and from their rooms. With all these jobs, you had to keep a look out for and take extra care with some of the more dependant residents.…
1. As a carer your role is not to do things for the individuals you care for but to do the tasks including the service user. A support workers role is to work in partnership with the individual and support their decisions, offer as much or as little assistance the service user requires for their care and support them to do as much as possible for themselves. If you provide too much care for an individual they can lose their skills and independence and not learn any new life skills. By providing support and encouraging the individual to participate in their daily living needs you are helping them to develop and maintain their skills for everyday life. Skills are easily regained if the service user is shown how to complete a task. For example if a service user is having a shower and would usually have his hair washed for him, why not show him how to wash his own hair. Whilst providing personal care for my residents when it comes to hair washing, I normally provide the shampoo and apply the shampoo to the service users palm. I then mimmick washing my own hair and ask the service user to copy me. This is also useful in showing a service user where needs to be washed. I also talk to the service user about the task they are doing, for example I would mimmick washing my arms and say wash your arms that's it, don't forget underneath your arm. This is enforcing new skills as well as maintaining them, it also empowers the service user as they have achieved this task themselves with minimal support.…
She was pleasantly surprised that the advance degree guided her to do a better job in teaching. Additionally, it helped her to better understand adult learning behavior that leads to development and implementation of effective program courses, tools, and other resources for the new residents. The advanced study taught her how to facilitate and train using principles of learning with effective methodologies that transform New Residents from just a task providers/caregivers to competent…
Left leg Gastrocnemius Recession. This procedure is to release a tight calf muscle that is pulling the heel upward. To improve ROM(Range Of Motion), the tendon connecting to the tight calf muscle will be cut, this will release the heel from the upward pull allowing the patient to stand with foot flat on ground.…
B.A later pursued a Licensed Vocational Nurse program and graduated in 1996. From 1996 to 2000, she worked as an LVN, where she refined her technical skills on intravenous therapy, medication pass, catheterizations and irrigations, and also patient’s safety and support implementations (Master of Science in Nursing, 2013). Later, she went back in school and was awarded an associate degree in nursing.…
My current job role is as a ‘care assistant’. I am responsible for providing support to the elderly in their own homes,…
I have obtained two jobs working alongside physicians and nurses. The first job consists of transporting patients throughout a large hospital system. Every day is filled with numerous activities as the hospital is a level one trauma center located between suburban and urban areas. I chose to work nights to gain more responsibilities and autonomy. My responsibilities include transporting patients throughout the hospital system. I have learned to communicate with a diverse population and explain my role with regards to care. During night shifts, I was tasked with transporting patients out of the emergency department and into the main hospital. Other roles of my job include collecting, cleaning, and distributing equipment such as IV pumps throughout…
On February 8, 2016 I was able to get a chance and interview Griselda Carreon, who is a Medical Assistant at Dr. Sosa Fernando MD, PA Clinic. During the interview I was able to learn much more information about what it takes to become a Medical Assistant. This profession consists of dedication, professionalism, ethics, morals, and of course responsibility like any other job. Yes, many might seem that this looks like a simple job, but in reality it takes practice and knowledge. Griselda was able to share with me what she does on a daily basis, and these consists of answering phone calls, scheduling appointments, checking fax, sending prescriptions, and of course making referrals. She said there is never a day where the clinic is slow, instead…
Emergency nursing is a dynamic, fast-paced field that gives you the opportunity to treat a wide range of patients with an even wider range of illnesses, conditions and traumas. ER nurses have to be able to think on their feet, work well with their teammates and be ready for just about anything.…
Patient Safety plays a major component in providing a safe and accurate care. And (JCAHO) Joint Commission and Accreditation on Healthcare Organization plays a significant role on quality, safety and improvements.…
When we obtain knowledge and learnings through lessons, it is important to share this information with others. As a professional, dissemination this knowledge is even more important. When professors and faculty publish their work, they increase their own prestige along with the institution where they are working (Jeffress & Lyle, 2012). More importantly, as Forsyth, Wright, Scherb, and Gaspar (2010, p. 15) state, “Knowledge synthesis, translation, and exchange are vital to strengthen health care, inform policy, and improve practice decisions based on current clinical evidence”. The importance of disseminating evidence-based practice (EBP) finding is for health care professionals…
“Compassion is a complex and challenging dance in which the nurse moves back and forth with the patient on cue in a caring receptivity” (Younger, 1995, p. 69). “Beside Manner” is not a trait that every nurse starts out with or ends up with when they finish their career. I think that “bedside manner” is something that we learn and it continues to grow throughout our lives within our work and personal lives. I think that some people have a nurturing side that makes them want to care for patients and therefore compassion goes along with that. I think that as a nursing profession we are taught to know how to care for patients in a medical setting and by the textbook. Each individual then needs to take that knowledge and learn how they can then find a compassionate and caring manner in which to care with patients. Nurses are expected to handle all kinds of scenarios that are thrown at us, and we need to always keep the…
Problem: In healthcare system, nurse staffing is a big concern in the U.S. The inadequate nurse staffing has been linked to poor patient outcomes and quality of care, job dissatisfaction among nurses, and so forth. Therefore, the implementation of adequate nurse staffing may be a solution to improve these outcomes. However, there is lack of evidence that the safe and effect nurse staffing.…