A nurse at CaroMont Regional Medical Center, Abby Stewart, is an all-around great nurse. She is a young, thirty-two year old, enthusiastic woman. She had attended Presbyterian School of Nursing, becoming a registered nurse. The look in her green bright eyes, as she explained to me her career, was full of excitement and love. Abby was fully compassionate about her career and made sure that tremendously clear. She started out telling me about her daily routine. First, she will go retrieve the patient assignment. Then, she goes to the nurse who had the patient previously and get the report on the patient. Sometimes, it is more than one nurse who has been …show more content…
She will draw lab work, examine patients, pass out medications, and send patients for test, washing hands properly, and putting on PPE (personal protective equipment). To be a registered nurse certain skills are very important. Abby talked about how time management is one of the most important skills there are. If a nurse does not have good time management they will fail at some of the tasks that are crucial. For example, turning your patient every two hours to prevent bed sores, failing to give the patients medication on time can have terrible results, not bringing a patient meal on time, and that is only a few examples. Another skill nurses need to be able to do is prioritize. They need to be able to pick out the most important cases and treat that patient first before the minor ones, such as treating a stab to the abdominal region or putting a cast on a broken arm. Nurses need to know the medications and their side effects. If they give a patient has a reaction to somethings they need to be able to see which side effect they are experiencing from what