We’ve talked about patient falls in class since the beginning of last year. We talked about risk factors for falls, scales for assessing patients, impact of falls both on patients and on the healthcare system as a whole. I thought I had a good understanding of what we could do as nurses to help our …
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During the pandemic, I noticed that a lot of routines that people had set up for themselves were disrupted. This led to people, especially older adults who might not work a traditional job with set hours any more, to feel displaced. During our careers, it’s very easy to tie your self esteem and feelings of …
My initial thoughts about telehealth and telemedicine were that it is centered around primary care and outpatient services rather than inpatient acute settings. I used to work at an urgent care where we would get our x-rays reviewed by an on-call radiologist using telemedicine. As far as acute care telemedicine, I was aware of tele …
Before the presentation I didn’t think of needle exchange programs as a public health initiative, at least not one that had an impact on non-IV drug users. I thought it was a bit of an enabling program for drug users, and honestly, I’m not crazy about the program being able to give out 100 needles …
I think before the lecture, when I thought about human trafficking, I almost exclusively thought of sex trafficking. I was certainly aware of other forms like forced labor or child soldiers, but I hadn’t connected them to the umbrella term of human trafficking. The lecture did a good job of talking about human trafficking in …
I feel like I have a moderate level of understanding with the concept of delirium. It was covered in our last semester’s mental health nursing course and we had a presentation about it during clinical when I was at NERHP last fall. Delirium is a sudden onset of confusion that is often accompanied by …
I would consider doing the simulations a valuable experience. The cases that we were presented were challenging, more so than the simulation earlier in the semester, and really encouraged us to work as a team in order to get a strong assessment completed. I feel much more prepared to address mental health in patients …
An ostomy diversion is a surgical procedure done where a section of a patient’s GI tract, usually part of their intestine, is broken up and rerouted through to their abdominal wall where they will be able to eliminate wastes. This is done normally when a disease, for example rectal cancer, makes it impossible to dangerous …
I think working in a med-surge floor will provide me with a great baseline of nursing skills and knowledge that can transfer to other areas of care as I progress in my career. Although I wouldn’t say that I’m fascinated with med-surge nursing I can understand it’s importance both to patients and to me as …
