As graduation is right around the corner, I find myself experiencing many emotions and mixed feelings that are stirring. I am excited, nervous, scared, relieved, grateful and the list goes on. I think that I am most excited about finally being done with the school portion of nursing and moving onto the career I have been waiting for my entire life. I will celebrate the progress towards my goals and victories by taking time to provide self-care to myself throughout…
This project included multi smaller steps to come up with a final project in the end. I would say that our group learned a lot about what malnutrition is, what causes it, and how to help to prevent malnutrition in patients who might be in the hospital. We hope that this information will help other nurses on the unit that we had our clinicals on. We have not gotten any feedback from the audience that the infographics were distributed to….
We investigated the nutritional status of patients who were hospitalized and how to improve their overall nutrition during their stay. There are many things that we discovered about this topic including the fact that the patients nutritional status is a big predicting factor of their health outcomes. Longer hospital stays can be due to poor nutritional outcomes. One of the studies that we looked at stated that patients who were malnourished stayed in the hospital for an average of 5…
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My knowledge of delirium and preventative factors didn’t really change throughout my involvement in this program. Just that there are many preventative factors that you can help the patient with, so they don’t develop a delirious state. Something as simple as waking the patient from a daytime nap will help them sleep better at night and potentially prevent delirium. Another thing that is helpful to the patients may be starting your conversation with something like “good morning, happy Friday, it’s…
The pandemic was a tough time for all, but I especially feel that it was hard for the elderly population. I feel that since elders were at a higher risk of contracting COVID 19, they may have sheltered themselves more than others in the community. Although this was for their safety, it still gets lonely at times. One elder that I was close to during the pandemic was my grandmother. It was a difficult time because I worked in the…
Prior to this class I didn’t realize that there was a difference between telehealth and telemedicine. And as a whole, I did not know very much information about the subject all together. My preconceived thoughts were that telehealth/medicine was at a much smaller scale and less capabilities that there actually are out there. I figured that telehealth was responsible for small things such as sending patients vital signs from an at home device for the hospital to receive the data…
To be honest, I didn’t really have many thoughts towards the needle exchange program. At first, I thought it was just going to be a program where people had a place to bring their dirty needles instead of throwing them on the street. I thought that this was a good concept. After listening to the guest speaker on Thursday, I do not necessarily agree with the needle exchange program. I feel that a program like this is enabling the drug…
My pre-existing thoughts of Human Trafficking are very slim. I know that it happens in our area and all around the world, but I do not know enough information about it. I believe that people suffer from human trafficking everyday and that human trafficking is something that goes unnoticed often. It is a good idea to be educated on it, so that we can potentially stop it from happening in the future. Human trafficking is something that can happen to…
I anticipate that this project will be accomplished by a lot of teamwork and communication with other group members. It won’t always be easy, but we must incorporate each team member in every step of the way to the final project and we all need to find a time that works best for each and every one of us. Our communication plan is to remain honest with each other when assigning tasks and holding each other accountable for the completion…
