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New Experiences At The Nursing Home

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Since my last journal entry, I have had the chance to have new experiences at the nursing home. Not only do we get to view the jail tomorrow, which I know that all of us in the clinical group are excited to experience, we get to do a med-pass, and we will get the chance to go to Hospice. Hospice is a place that I had heard about and briefly knew about before coming to Riverside, but I really didn’t know that much about it. Every nursing home that I have had clinical at or worked at has had residents that are on hospice, but none have had a specific hospice house like Riverside does. Riverside is unique in the sense that there are residents there that are on hospice, but there is also an onsite hospice home that coincides with the nursing …show more content…

The biggest difference between the hospice home and the nursing home is the number of residents per floor or unit. In the hospice home, there are two wings, each having room for 7 residents. However, in the nursing home there are units that have up to 40 or 45 residents that are cared for by those 2 nurses and 6 LNAs on a good day. It was a weird experience going from such an active place with tons of residents to going to the laid back place known as hospice. I had the chance to work with a great nurse both times that I was at hospice. Her strategy was different than most registered nurses that have nursing students walk around with them. Generally when I have worked or shadowed with a nurse in the past, they have let me do everything that has needed to be done. An example of that was when I was with Elaine up on unit 5: when I worked with her for the clinical day she let me jump right in and be the person to do everything. When I worked with the nurse in hospice, I primarily just followed the nurse around both days I was there. At the time I was a little annoyed that I was not doing anything, since the first day all that I did was sit in a chair and read patients charts. The second day I actually got to read charts and talk to the family members when the doctor came to talk about the resident. I hated not being able to move and do things while at hospice, since so many of the other

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