Professionalism
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Cover Letter and Resume
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Presenting Change
Our final dissemination project was presented to the Bean 5 nursing staff in the form of posters hung up on the unit, and survey’s dispersed to the staff. Unfortunately, we did not acquire any feedback from our surveys, which is slightly disappointing because we cannot accurately assess the staff’s response. We may not have received feedback on our surveys due to multiple reasons. One reason is our survey was only posted on the unit for about a week and a half, so we may not have had enough exposure. Another reason is we relied on the unit educator to disperse our educational posters around the unit, so these may not…
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Planning Change
I anticipate that our dissemination project will run smoothly, since our group I already communicating very well, and we see each other every week at our clinical placement. I do anticipate our project being a little more difficult when we all begin preceptorship because we will be on different schedules. I think we will still be able to communicate through this challenge however, because we have already made a group chat to communicate questions, ideas, and tasks. The plan I have envisioned for conflict management is to assign tasks for our project ahead of time. This way, if someone isn’t completing their portion of the assignment/project, we can revisit the…
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 Disaster Nursing
As a nurse, you are responsible for the care of your patients and their safety in the event of a disaster. All emergency plans are centered around the best way to keep patients and staff out of harm’s way as much as possible. On top of caring for their patient’s, nurses are also responsible for triaging of patients, if necessary, to ensure care is efficient and the most people can be helped. Nurses will also coordinate places for patients to stay if they aren’t assigned to a room, and they will help implement the emergency plan while remaining calm and professional. As you can imagine, the task of a nurse…
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Pre-Hospital Elder Life Program Eportfolio Post To my knowledge currently, delirium is an acute process that frequently affects the elder population in the hospital setting. Delirium is acute confusion, which is often misunderstood as dementia. Ways to prevent delirium include assessing patient mental status at least once per shift, re-orienting patients to their room, preventing infections such as UTIs, reorienting patients to person, place, and time, and providing mind stimulating tools such as crossword puzzles or books for the patient to read. It is important to be able to recognize delirium in patients because it can impair healing in patients. I have previously experienced caring for a patient who is…
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Final Reflection
From this team project, I gained a lot of experience with group collaboration. This is a valuable experience as a nursing student because I will be working with other nurses throughout my entire career. Working collaboratively with others is an essential skill in a hospital because you constantly need to be in communication with other health care professionals. I also learned how to better communicate in a group setting. When small conflicts arose, I was able to find a solution with my groupmates. I would want a potential future employer to know that I am informed on the topics of quality improvement and evidenced based practice. I would want a…
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Ethical Considerations for EBP After completing all the ethical assignments for class, my understanding and viewpoint of how nurses contribute to the ethical conduct of research and implementation of research findings has only become stronger. In the movie we watched, “Miss Evers’ Boys”, the medical professionals knew that a cure had been found for Syphilis, yet they withheld this from the volunteers to examine how the disease progressed. This position by the medical professionals was an extreme case of ethical misconduct, and patient deaths even resulted from this lack of ethical reasoning. This research experiment was highly unethical because it caused physical and emotional harm to patients and families. It…
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Collaboration in Nursing
When I was searching for a photo that resembled collaboration, I came across this one which really jumped out at me. Collaboration is something that is easily overlooked in many professions where working together is so crucial to success. Nursing is no exception to this, and frequently in the nursing field there is tension between coworkers and other members of the health care team. This picture demonstrates a concept that I always try to live by, which is that by working together, you can come up with a better solution/idea than you could have alone. Everyone’s opinions and ideas are so unique and valuable in healthcare, no matter what role…
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Gratitude and Self Care
Gratitude is probably one of the greatest gifts you can give to your coworkers. From time to time, everyone feels a little burnt out, like they aren’t doing a good enough job, or like they are failing their patients. When you notice a coworker feeling this way, it might be a good idea to tell them how much you appreciate what they do. If a coworker helps you with a task, technique, or a patient, it is also really important to thank them, and show them how much you appreciate their time and effort. When I am overly stressed or being too hard on myself, I give myself an afternoon…
