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…
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…
I found this picture in a textbook that I was looking at and I thought it was very interesting because of the description that it gave. This picture features the Greek God, Aesculapius, who was the God of healing. It said that he was represented by a snake because in folk medicine snakes were used to treat many ailments. Looking at this picture and reading the description immediately made me think of The Caduceus symbol. The Caduceus contains two snakes…
These last two logic modules were very informative and really related to the nursing field. Going into the third learning module I always knew that I was a visual learner and learn best by doing things. As I went through this module it gave some great tips on how to organize myself and study based on the way that I learn best. Then the module went into critical thinking and clinical judgement, which was helpful because it laid out steps…
