Learning Report
1) When a patient has suffered a heart attack, stroke, shock, severe trauma, respiratory distress or other severe medical issue, it is vital that they receive immediate and intensive nursing care. Critical care nurses are adept at providing such care in settings where patients can be given complex assessments and treatment.
2) I learned a lit of new things in the ICU. With the patient I saw I learned what monitors he was hooked up on, and what they were used for.
3) The whole time was great. I followed a nurse who really told me step by step what he was doing and why. Then towards the end he took a break, and I sat with Niomia. She explained some of the patients she has seen and helped.
4) The worst thing that happened was seeing a patient that came into the hospital for a simple sickness, and it turning into something that put him in the ICU.
6) This week was good more likely fantastic. At the beginning I was scared and nervous, but once I got into the ICU mode I really enjoued. I think I found job when I got older, and that's being an ICU nurse.
Experience Report
1) The technology I observed was all the monitors that the patient was hooked up on. With the monitors it told you his heart rate, BP, and respirations. He also was on a venalator. A venalator is a machine that supports breathing. Most patients in the ICU are on venalators, but what patient families need to understand is that it doesn't treat a disease or condition. It is keeping a patient alive.
2) The nurse I was following his patient was having high blood pressure. The nurse looked at his scans and tests and he realized that his blood pressure was raising due to the fact that he ws trying to wing the patient of the venalator.
3) For therapeutic procedures the nurse tried weaning him off of the venalator. Since, every time the nurse tried to wing him off the venaltor his blood pressure rised, so he had to choose which medicine was better to use to treat it. But, since the patient's BP continued to rise the nurse said he would have to stay on it.
4) The patient I saw was a COPD patience. A COPD patient means chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Since the patient was a heacy smoker, which is the cause of his COPD.
Journal
When I arrived on the unit it smelled very cleaned, and it looked very organized. There were rooms that were rooms that in the shape of an "U". Some rooms had yellow shoe holders which held the necessary products for the isolation rooms. They put a patient in isolation if those patients are contagious and will spread germs. In the ICU those patients immune systems are low, so they are very septible to getting infections or sicknesses very easly.
I observed nurses taking vital signs and interactions between the nurses and the patient's families. I noticed that with handling with ICU patient's families that you have to be extra careful about what you are saying, how you are saying it, and the tone of what you are saying it in. There were many safety procedures going on, with all the isolation equipment out, and very precised sanatation. The treatment procedures I saw were the treating of the patient's blood pressure to go down. it was very important to lower it, because if it didn't lower then he would have to stay on the venalator for longer time.
I learned how to communicate between the the nurse and the patient's family. Also, how to handle solving just one problem but looking at other things to find out the best solution. I also learned that with ICU patient's their vitals are going to be taken often. When I was there observing the patient's vital signs were taken about 4 times. Medical Terminology that was used was that the patient was labeled a COPD.
The time I had their was a great time. I was very nervous on going, but I had a great nurse that I followed. When he went on break, I sat with another nurse and her and I had a great talk. She explained on her experinces in the hospital and patients she has treated. I could really see my self working in a field like this. I liked how you have 2 patients and that you really get to connect and treat them. Because when I get into the medical field, I want to focus on getting that patient to the best health that they can possilby have, and I don't think I could that has well when I am seeing 6 different other patients. The ICU could be my field of practice, and I am very excited to see where it takes me, and what next week has instore for me.
1) When a patient has suffered a heart attack, stroke, shock, severe trauma, respiratory distress or other severe medical issue, it is vital that they receive immediate and intensive nursing care. Critical care nurses are adept at providing such care in settings where patients can be given complex assessments and treatment.
2) I learned a lit of new things in the ICU. With the patient I saw I learned what monitors he was hooked up on, and what they were used for.
3) The whole time was great. I followed a nurse who really told me step by step what he was doing and why. Then towards the end he took a break, and I sat with Niomia. She explained some of the patients she has seen and helped.
4) The worst thing that happened was seeing a patient that came into the hospital for a simple sickness, and it turning into something that put him in the ICU.
6) This week was good more likely fantastic. At the beginning I was scared and nervous, but once I got into the ICU mode I really enjoued. I think I found job when I got older, and that's being an ICU nurse.
Experience Report
1) The technology I observed was all the monitors that the patient was hooked up on. With the monitors it told you his heart rate, BP, and respirations. He also was on a venalator. A venalator is a machine that supports breathing. Most patients in the ICU are on venalators, but what patient families need to understand is that it doesn't treat a disease or condition. It is keeping a patient alive.
2) The nurse I was following his patient was having high blood pressure. The nurse looked at his scans and tests and he realized that his blood pressure was raising due to the fact that he ws trying to wing the patient of the venalator.
3) For therapeutic procedures the nurse tried weaning him off of the venalator. Since, every time the nurse tried to wing him off the venaltor his blood pressure rised, so he had to choose which medicine was better to use to treat it. But, since the patient's BP continued to rise the nurse said he would have to stay on it.
4) The patient I saw was a COPD patience. A COPD patient means chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Since the patient was a heacy smoker, which is the cause of his COPD.
Journal
When I arrived on the unit it smelled very cleaned, and it looked very organized. There were rooms that were rooms that in the shape of an "U". Some rooms had yellow shoe holders which held the necessary products for the isolation rooms. They put a patient in isolation if those patients are contagious and will spread germs. In the ICU those patients immune systems are low, so they are very septible to getting infections or sicknesses very easly.
I observed nurses taking vital signs and interactions between the nurses and the patient's families. I noticed that with handling with ICU patient's families that you have to be extra careful about what you are saying, how you are saying it, and the tone of what you are saying it in. There were many safety procedures going on, with all the isolation equipment out, and very precised sanatation. The treatment procedures I saw were the treating of the patient's blood pressure to go down. it was very important to lower it, because if it didn't lower then he would have to stay on the venalator for longer time.
I learned how to communicate between the the nurse and the patient's family. Also, how to handle solving just one problem but looking at other things to find out the best solution. I also learned that with ICU patient's their vitals are going to be taken often. When I was there observing the patient's vital signs were taken about 4 times. Medical Terminology that was used was that the patient was labeled a COPD.
The time I had their was a great time. I was very nervous on going, but I had a great nurse that I followed. When he went on break, I sat with another nurse and her and I had a great talk. She explained on her experinces in the hospital and patients she has treated. I could really see my self working in a field like this. I liked how you have 2 patients and that you really get to connect and treat them. Because when I get into the medical field, I want to focus on getting that patient to the best health that they can possilby have, and I don't think I could that has well when I am seeing 6 different other patients. The ICU could be my field of practice, and I am very excited to see where it takes me, and what next week has instore for me.
You would be a great ICU nurse as well as many other things you would be great at. Always follow your heart. I'm glad you had a good learning experience.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much!!! I am finding out so much about myself in this class, and I am so excited to all the things that are coming!! Thank you so much for leading me in this journey!!
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