Job Shadow Essay

For my job shadow I attend Geisinger Hospital. During my job shadow I got to experience and witness some very interesting and amazing things. When we first got there we started at life flight and we got to hear from a life flight nurse and a life flight doctor. They then allowed us to look through the helicopters and ask any questions about anything we saw. I talked to the doctor for awhile about pediatric flights and how they transport littler kids. They then allowed us to go into the newest helicopter outside. After touring the helicopters we went into this older building where they use to have a nursing school, but now its just for presentations. We walked in to meet a lady named, Rebecca Winters BSN,RN,CNOR, Clinical Nurse Educator for the operating room. She told us about OR
Then we headed back upstairs to watch a video on patients perspective of a nurse and realized nursing isn't just giving a patient medicines or cleaning out a wound its about being there for them when you need them the most morally and physically. Also, helping out the patients family to be as comfortable as possible. We then had the opportunity to talk to a nurse and ask her questions about her job and how she feels about working as a nurse. She got into detail about schooling involved in how you can get a two year associative degree but most hospitals are requiring now a four year bachelors degree. We then ended off by hearing from two ladies from the Geisinger pharmacy. They talked a lot about the new technology they are using within the hospital to make the medicines go out a lot faster. It was really interesting to learn a lot about robots that go around the hospitals to the different floors. Overall my experience there was pretty awesome, I very much enjoyed their presentation and I think they did a great job for what they were allowed to