NR 341 Complex Adult Health
Clinical Reflection Week 1
NR 341 Complex Adult Health
NR 341
NR 341 Complex Adult Health
Clinical Reflection Week
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Complex Clinical Reflection Week 1
This week was our first week on the GSU floor of complex clinical. We began at 0645 and mostly did orientation as well as shadowing nurses for the rest of our time there. Our instructor took us on a tour of the floor and familiarized us to the supply room (where the medications are also located), the break room, the conference room (where we would conduct our post conference), the crash cart, and anything else we might need when taking care of patients. We also reviewed expectations for clinical, what time we should arrive, where we would all meet up, how many patients we will be assigned, the clinical documentation, and what we can and cannot do as nursing students. Since we have not taken and passed the medication calculation exam, we could not pass medications this first week. Our instructor also helped us each make sure that we could sign into EPIC and we were familiar with the layout.
Unfortunately, the GSU floor is not a critical care/intensive care floor, but we still plan on doing the best with the patients we receive. Our instructor plans on making sure we use each patient as an opportunity to delve deeper into various illness regardless of what surgery they came to the hospital to have done. For example, if they came in for an appendectomy but have a history of COPD, we will use their COPD as a learning opportunity to help us in our complex lecture.
Our instructor believes it would be beneficial for us to refamiliarize ourselves with the most common medications that we will encounter on this unit. For that reason, she gave us a list of ten medications that she would like for us to write out the purpose of the medication, complications, interactions, contraindications, administration, expected pharmacological action, nursing interventions and client education. That way when it is time for us to pass medications, we will not have to sit down and look up medications as we will have them ready to refer too. [Show Less]