When I think of a nurse and ethics my thought is that they play an important role. The nurse has face-to-face contact with that patient at all time. The nurse is responsible for providing the best care possible for the patient, which includes maintaining the ethical standards. A nurse’s role is to be an advocate for a patient and the treatment they want to receive. The nurse has to remain on the same side as the patient even if they…
I remember last year when COVID first entered the United States and I also remember thinking that it will never affect me because it is across the country in Washington. Here we are a little over a year later and this country has been turned upside down because of this pandemic. I remember I was getting off the exit to go back home for spring break and I received the email from President Herbert stating that we would be online…
When my group first came upon the topic of animal assisted therapy and the use among oncology patients, my initial thought was that it must be a positive intervention. After reviewing the research that was found, animal assisted therapy was a positive intervention with oncology patients. This intervention had a great impact on physiological and psychological factors and increased the patient’s quality of life. The use of animal assisted therapy does not focus on curing the disease, but focuses more…
After viewing the interview, I feel that I learned many different things about therapeutic communication and how to properly interview a patient. I think that this group did a good job asking open-ended questions and asked the patient to elaborate on certain things. One area that this group talked to the patient about was his previous job and how his retirement has affected him. I think that his retirement has played a part in his depression getting worse and this…
The PICOT question that we had at first did need to be revised, but since finding articles we did not have to revise our PICOT question. We haven’t had many challenges thus far, but just initially finding articles was difficult. I know for me I struggled to find articles within the correct time frame. When my team was first finding articles we all came across a lot of similar ones that someone had already used in the group. What we…
In order to successfully complete this team project everyone on the team has to be motivated to put in the work. Also, as a team we should a pick a topic that we are all interested in because this will create a collaborative team dynamic. I think in order to hold each other accountable we need to set certain days when tasks need to be done. As a team we should also setup times to all meet to check in…
The reason that there is so much stigma around mental illness has a lot to do with social media. Social media is a powerful tool to get messages across, but it is also good at manipulating those messages either to something good or something bad. For myself when I go on social media and see something posted about metnal illness it changes my perception of what I thought I knew about mental illness. I think the stigma towards mental illness…
Apply the knowledge and science of nursing with the natural/behavioral sciences, the humanities and inter-professional education to provide psychiatric/mental health nursing care. Demonstrate capacity to practice psychiatric/mental health nursing using an evidence based and theoretically guided framework. Model professional values as a nurse, which reflect the integration of ethical, legal, and moral principles, in delivering quality psychiatric nursing care. Demonstrate use of data from a variety of resources to promote safety and optimal outcomes for patients in a mental health…
During this semester of clinical I feel that I learned and was exposed to many different things that only benefitted my learning. This semester I got to see many different patients that each had a different diagnosis. One patient that I really interacted with and made a difference in their day was a patient that I had the third week of clinical. When I went in with this patient, I introduced myself and the patient stated that many nursing students…
While doing this medication reconciliation assignment I did have some concerns while speaking with this client. One of the the concerns that I had is that the client is hypotensive and both of the thyroid hormone medications the client is on can cause unusual bleeding. If the client starts to bleeding significantly, they should seek medical care immediately because the client could face life-threatening effects and their blood pressure could drop even more. Another concern that I had was that…
