My Experience At Mercy Wound Clinic

After completing my first week on externship, I have learned and experienced so much already. I have experienced things that I enjoyed and experienced things that I have not enjoyed. Since this was my first week, the externship instructor only had me job shadow. To work with my schedule, I’m going to externship (which is at Mercy Wound Clinic) two times a week.
The very first day of externship for me was on Wednesday, August 10th. That day I was so nervous walking through those doors. Luckily for me, all the girls there are so nice and welcoming. They showed me where the scrubs were and walked me around the building and introduced me to everyone. When I got placed with SM, she told me she was a Kaplan student who did her externship here and they hired her one afterwards. After hearing that, I just kept thinking, “I need to make a great impression!” 8:00am rolls around and the first patient comes into the office. As I follow SM around taking in everything she is doing, I realized how much teamwork this place has! Everyone does everything to keep the flow going. SM would take vitals, as the RN would start looking at the wound,
This day I was able to walk in more comfortable and confident. As the first half of the day went on, we took care of patients that needed help with their wounds. But as the second half of the day went on, we had patients that had incontinence issues and needed help! I had no idea the wound clinic was part of the incontinent clinic as well. After watching the different steps with each issue, I realized that they are pretty much the same thing. We need to take the vitals, get the patient comfortable until the doctor comes into see the patient. All that is different is that there are different instruments needed. One things that I did realize was that we are not drawing anyone’s blood or giving shots; which kind of bums me out. I wish I was able to get practice in