This is me at the Med Cart at the nursing home yesterday with our instructor Janelle. She's great! She doesn't look too happy here but she's really nice and fun.
Studying with Celessta and Madison, planning our inservice
"Documenting" haha. The clipboard's got all my NANDA info on it
Post conference and reviewing for our med test.
My roommate Courtney and I at the nursing home!
In class, with Jisoo and Sarah making a big poster of the heart
Part of the group at the nursing home
Now I'm actually charting.
This is one of those weekends where I will be pulling an all nighter
or two....probaly just one though ;) Today, I'll be presenting an
inservice to the staff of the nursing home I've been at for the last 5
weeks with Celessta and Madison on the importance of keeping residents
active in the center. Then, I have to study for a medication test, which
will be mainly Fill in the Blank over some of the medications we've
been passing out. It shouldn't be too bad, but it's really hard to keep
the generic AND brand names straight. That shouldn't be too bad, I'll
just have to take that before 7 pm today. Then Monday I have a test on
Birth Process, and Tuesday I have a test on End of Life Care and
Hematological/Lymphatic Systems. Over the weekend, I have to type
up a full "NANDA" care plan on a patient I spent my time with on
Thursday at the nursing home. These NANDAs are our worst
nightmares-NANDA is great, because you have to get subjective and
objective data on a patient covering every aspect of the patient's life.
This is part of "holistic" care of the patient. The outline we use to
ask questions and get data from is about 10 pages long. The hard part
isn't getting the data (well sometimes, it is, depending on how much
your patient is willing to talk or cooperate with you), but it's really
time consuming writing out all of your data separated into their various
sections (such as "Activity and Rest", "Nutrition", "GI System", etc)
and then further divided into Subjective (data the patient or their
family member tells you) and Objective (measurable data you gather). And
write it out in narrative format. You also have to submit one to three care plans with the NANDA.
Anyway, that takes me forever
(4 hours is forever to me) and starting next week, when I start my
clinical rotations at Castleview again in the Med/Surg unit, I'll have
one due EVERY WEEK! Ah! They're due Monday at 8:30 so that/s usually my weekend project. I also need to do my write up paper on my experience at the Public Health Department. It was cool, I got to go to the elementary school in Helper and help the school nurse do vision tests, and then a family of 5 came in and they all had lice, so we had to check their hair for nits. Oh, the joy. It just reminds you to exercise EXTRA caution when handling patients because you never know what they have!
Enough rambling!!!! I hope you all have a great weekend!
