The patient that I chose to complete an assessment on was admitted to the hospital with some sort of a bug bite, supposedly, which had become infected and resulted in an abscess on the patient’s back. This patient not only had the infection to deal with at this time. The patient, a female in her 40s, also has hypertension, liver disease, diverticulitis, a degenerative lumbosacral disc in her lower back, high cholesterol, and ineffectively controlled type II diabetes. I chose this patient for my assessment because of her young age, willingness to talk, spectrum of issues to choose from for my care plan, and her evidently ineffective self-health management techniques. I was able to complete a quick head-to-toe assessment on the patient today and will go back tomorrow morning to fill in the blanks where necessary.
Today was a little bit of a difficult day. I was placed with a nurse today that was exceptionally hard to follow. I’m not sure what it was but either she was extremely uncomfortable allowing me to view information about her patients on her computer login or she just did not trust me specifically. I was thrown off by this and was not sure exactly how to act. I continued to follow the nurse to patient rooms and watch her go about her normal activities and she was very hesitant to let me do any of these things alongside her or with her assistance. I will admit that this made me very uneasy and I definitely felt inferior to this nurse because of the behavior that she exhibited towards me on this day. Although, I did notice that she is very good at her job. She tended to her patients’ requests in a timely fashion and treated them all with dignity and respect. In spite of the insecurities that this nurse made me feel I was able to watch her give exceptional care to her patients which made me feel good.
The patient that I chose to complete an assessment on was admitted to the hospital with some sort of a bug bite, supposedly, which had become infected and resulted in an abscess on the patient’s back. This patient not only had the infection to deal with at this time. The patient, a female in her 40s, also has hypertension, liver disease, diverticulitis, a degenerative lumbosacral disc in her lower back, high cholesterol, and ineffectively controlled type II diabetes. I chose this patient for my assessment because of her young age, willingness to talk, spectrum of issues to choose from for my care plan, and her evidently ineffective self-health management techniques. I was able to complete a quick head-to-toe assessment on the patient today and will go back tomorrow morning to fill in the blanks where necessary.
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