During one of my weeks at clinical I was able to follow around a nurse Bethany as she was taking care of her some of her patients. It was a great learning experience because she taught me about IV pumps and blood transfusions, which I didn’t have much exposure to. One of her patient’s was …
One of the most interesting safety concerns in this patient was his risk for anemia and other mineral deficiencies due to being on pantoprazole. I knew that gastric acid help with digestion but I thought it had more to do with breaking up lipids, not with making other foods more available for your small intestine. …
I liked the first module because it separated nursing students into beginner and advanced categories and set different goals for them to demonstrate while in clinical. I know when I’m at clinical there are always a few things that I can pinpoint that something isn’t right but I can’t exactly place what when I walk …
“We Are The World” was a collaborative single released in 1985 in order to raise aid money for a famine in Africa. As you can see in the video, the song features a variety of singer-celebrities from a variety of different music genres who were popular at the time. I think this is a good …
The first learning module we took was interesting not because it taught me a bunch of new tests taking strategies, but rather I was able to recognize strategies that I did subconsciously. For example, I always try look to what the question is actually looking for, because they often have a lot of information …
COURSE DESCRIPTION This introductory course integrates previous learning from the arts and sciences and inter-professional studies with holistic concepts of caring to support the health and well-being of people. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and science of nursing that includes, but is not limited to, self-care, self-awareness, comfort, and homeostasis, which provide a foundation …
I chose this image to represent nursing because I believe it shows people coming together to solve a challenge. When talking about working together with others as a nurse, I think it’s easy to jump right to interdisciplinary communication and skip over the patient. But ultimately the patient has one of the biggest pieces of …
Using active reading techniques while reading enables critical thinking. By making the reader take notes and ask questions about what they’re reading they start to think about the passage in new ways. I chose three active reading from throughout the semester, with the more recent passage at the top of the page. Looking at the …
To what extent do you agree with Sherry Turkle’s argument in “The Empathy Diaries”? On what points do you disagree? Is there another side to this she isn’t seeing? What is your counterargument to some of Turkle’s ideas?You may use your personal experience and observation with the internet and social media to address these questions.
