inhuman
Reflection
Week 5
Hallie Keller NR509
Spring Session 2022
lOM oAR c P S D | 2444 858 7
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Running head: IHUMAN REFLECTION WEEK 5
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Hallie Keller
Chamberlain College of Nursing
NR509
Spring Session 2022
lOM oAR c P S D | 2444 858 7
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IHUMAN REFLECTION
inhuman Reflection Week 5
The purpose of this paper includes my reflection on my inhuman patient encounter. The
process of clinical reasoning does seem to come with experience. Often when first starting
working in the emergency department I knew what needed to be done due to chief complaints,
and but that didn’t always mean I knew what exactly each lab was ordered for when patients
asked, or why the practitioner ordered a certain test. This came with time, and unfortunately
there isn’t much downtime in the emergency department to ask the provider the rationale behind
each test, so it often became my own pursuit. Obviously if something seemed off or completely
different than I would a dress the provider to confirm an order. I do find that we all think very
quickly and usually doesn’t have time to hesitate and I find deep down we know what were
supposed to do. This is often common in codes, where there are lots of orders being yelled out
and lots of different medications with different dosages, but after doing it more than a dozen of
times within a couple months I became confident in what I was overriding and drawing up for
those emergent situations.
Gathering patient information is the evidence-based improvement strategy I chose to improve my
performance in my next virtual patient encounter. My personal strengths include taking a quality
and in-depth medical history. “The provider assesses health risks using a health risk appraisal,
provides preventative screening/lifestyle behavior change recommendations, and collaboratively
develops a 5-to-10-year personalized prevention plan” (Edwards et al., 2021). While reading
through journal, this reiterated the importance of reviewing a future with the patient. Although I [Show Less]