My Clinical Experience: Personal Traits Of A Nurse

I sincerely believe that I accomplished my goals this week. I realized that I served 14 patients by combining the ability of knowledge, my attitude for excellence that I have consistently defeat the odds to become the very best Nurse practitioner; I can become. This clinical experience brings forth many opportunities and achievements. The most important experience this week; I had the ability to identify as primary healthcare provider a high risk need for the patient to be transferred to the Hospital for further evaluation without delay; due to complaints of “leg cold from the knee down to the feet”, which my evaluation was based on evidence practice knowledge of compassion and skill with the autonomy to practice, diagnose, and treat patients

My mom has worked in hospitals since before I was born. From being a nurse to becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, she spent a lot of time in hospitals, which meant her family did too. After spending many nights and even holidays at them, hospitals became like a second home to me; and the staff, a family. I learned to love everything about hospitals: the smell, cleanliness, layout, and even the chaos. I saw how controlled yet sincere everything was. I saw and learned things wandering around hospitals that many others will never understand.

deliver patients medical records, and run errands for all of the Nursing Units, Radiology, Admitting, and the general offices. From this experience I exhibited characteristics such as responsibility, caring, and, trustworthiness. Most importantly from this experience I learned you can change a person’s entire day by simply sending a smile their way or offering assistance. The small things in life matter, and I was reminded to live everyday to its fullest, because you never

During my NICU rotation, I had a good chance to ask questions and just become familiar with the day-to-day process of a NICU nurse. The thing that impacted me the most with the day was how helpful my nurse was. She started the day off with an attitude that made me feel comfortable asking questions. Right away in the morning she began explaining why certain things are done and showing me instruments that I have never had any experience with. Although NICU was not all

I had the privilege of going to Smith Elementary School in Long beach for my clinical rotation. I didn 't know what to expect before going in, but as soon as I walked in, I was greeted with friendly smiles. Nurse Olga was the most friendliest nurse and she showed me how things worked around her facility. They have computer system program that shows all the teachers can look at to find out their student’s health conditions. The nursing office had pretty much all the basic equipments that she would need to take care of her patients. My activities included signing in patients as they came in, prioritizing care based on complaints. Checking patient 's temperature was very common and I had to call several parent to pick up their children due to fever and malaise. I learned how to give vision and hearing test to children. Couple patients had routine medications like Albuterol and Clonidine. Most of all I had to treat basic wound care.

Every day I witnessed the compassion and commitment of the nurses towards their patients as they spent time with them and formed personal connections, whereas doctors would stop in for a few minutes before moving on to

The profession of nursing is often looked at as taking care of sick people or treating physical well-being. Many do not realize that nursing encompasses so much more than that. It is very important to me to have a positive attitude that transfers to my coworkers and patients. I want to be committed to helping those in need and desire to be able to be a confident health educator. I think it is very important to use the knowledge I have in my area of expertise to instruct others where it is needed. I would like to be able to say I gave the highest quality of care that I could at the end of each day. I realize that not everything will always be perfect or smooth, and there is only so much I can do. However, many of the rough patches can be eased with hard work and a good outlook. I want to be able to form great relationships with my colleagues as well as the client and facilitate everyone working together. Nursing is a respectable profession and I hope to contribute my own compassion to the entire community.

My dad has been living with seizure since 1980s caused by a traffic accident. Later, he was also diagnosed with Hepatitis C. As I was beside my dad in his journey, I had seen him gone into an ambulance whenever he had seizure attacks. I had witnessed his life going up and down with the disorder. My family was desperate to seek treatments in the hopes that would stop his seizure attacks. This was a difficult time in my family’s life and we wanted to give up at the time due to our financial problems. Fortunately, after we settled in the America, we were able to apply for a low-income families health care system. This enabled my parents to have checkups and access to the health care. As I began to help them with translation during doctor visits, my interest in health care enhances progressively. I was inspired by the work that the nurses and health care staffs perform toward my family members. Throughout their works, I learned that this profession requires extensive critical thinking, which is rooted in evidence based on practice and compassion. They 're really eager in their work and enthusiastic individual patient care not only for my family. These motivations lead me to developed my passion for providing a holistic and benevolent care such as nursing

This week I collaborated with my patient, colleagues, the nurses, and my clinical instructor. Collaboration with my client consisted of helping him with his ADLs and while performing his physical examination. Most of the day consisted of collaborating with one of my colleagues, Emily. This week we were both team leaders, so we had to communicate with the nurses at three different stations along with collaborating with the rest of our colleagues. We collaborated by asking the nurses, what patients needed their blood sugars taken. Once we received the list of room numbers, Emily and I collaborated and assigned other students to take blood sugars. When they were done collecting the blood sugars they reported the values to us, then we reported

As a nursing student, I have been able to learn from a variety of settings in clinical rotations including MedSurg, critical care and the Emergency Department. I have also had the opportunity to work on the floor at the Medical Center in Bowling Green where I’ve gained both organizational and team skills.

Compassion, commitment, courage; three words that I would associate with the role of being a nurse. By going into nursing I believe that I will be able to make a difference, even changing one life for the better is far more rewarding than anything I could ever imagine. I have always admired the role nurses play in the lives of so many, not only patients, but also the families of those in their care. I believe that it is essential for a nurse to be able to listen and communicate with not only their patients but also those around them.

I had my moments of success and happiness when I was able to help someone along and see how appreciative they were. There were also times that were saddening and uncomfortable. When visiting rooms, I did encounter people who were losing grip on their mental and physical abilities. I felt a heaviness because even though they were taken care of, there wasn’t that could be done to make them better. It was inspiring seeing nurses and family members continuing to care for them and keep dignity.

When I worked in the Ambulatory Facility, I was the happiest person ever. Walking in every morning through those metal doors, smelling the freshly made coffee and those warm bagels already delivered, ready to start our day at the surgical center. Patients walking in, signing in and waiting to be called in next. One by one going in and making sure that they’re names were spelled correctly and screening them one last time before going in. That was my job. Speaking to patients was something that I loved. Especially Spanish speaking patients. Once they were done, I would be called into PACU to check on patients and to see if they needed anything. This is what I loved. It felt like I was one step closer to my dreams in becoming a nurse. It was amazing.

Nursing students face many challenges due to their narrow scope of practice, and lack of experience and knowledge. This changes with the development and learning of values and beliefs, which shape the decision making in the nursing process. During my clinical nursing practice experience as a new nursing student, I have had amazing learning opportunities as well as situations that made me feel uncomfortable, powerless, and dependent on the assigned nurse. In this paper I will talk about one of my clinical experiences where I felt powerless, analyze it, and show how the sociopolitical inquiry and power dynamics come into play in my story.

My four weeks of clinical placement had thought me lots of things that can help me to become a better nurse in the future. I give my outmost respect and thanks to my clinical preceptors to the learning and knowledge they have imparted. I have learned a lot from clinical placement because 2B ward is a surgical unit I came to understand the complexity of wound care. Every wound should be assessed according to its type and severity because every type of wound has its appropriate dressing. Aside from learning clinical procedure such as wound dressing, drug administration (within scope of practice), naso-gastric feeding and etc, I came to learn the importance of teamwork it makes the job easier and allows good communication within staff members of the ward. I am looking forward for my upcoming clinical placement in 3rd year to gain more knowledge in and experience to develop my nursing skills and become a competent nurse in the future.