The document is a weekly reflective journal from a nurse's clinical rotation in the gynecology ward and ICU. In the gyne ward, the nurse felt nervous at first being assigned as the staff nurse but felt they performed their duties well, including monitoring a patient's vital signs. They reflected on caring for a patient with an ovarian cyst and felt more knowledge was needed to properly care for patients with women's health issues. In the ICU, the nurse again felt nervous, especially about the possibility of a patient death, and that ICU requires nurses to be quick and attentive in their duties.
The document is a weekly reflective journal from a nurse's clinical rotation in the gynecology ward and ICU. In the gyne ward, the nurse felt nervous at first being assigned as the staff nurse but felt they performed their duties well, including monitoring a patient's vital signs. They reflected on caring for a patient with an ovarian cyst and felt more knowledge was needed to properly care for patients with women's health issues. In the ICU, the nurse again felt nervous, especially about the possibility of a patient death, and that ICU requires nurses to be quick and attentive in their duties.
The document is a weekly reflective journal from a nurse's clinical rotation in the gynecology ward and ICU. In the gyne ward, the nurse felt nervous at first being assigned as the staff nurse but felt they performed their duties well, including monitoring a patient's vital signs. They reflected on caring for a patient with an ovarian cyst and felt more knowledge was needed to properly care for patients with women's health issues. In the ICU, the nurse again felt nervous, especially about the possibility of a patient death, and that ICU requires nurses to be quick and attentive in their duties.
I was assigned as a staff nurse for the first time in this rotation. At first I had no idea what must a staff nurse should do, but after everything had explained to us that we must do what we usually do, I feel lighted and more competent to do my duty as what I usually do. A1. At first I feel nervous because I thought everything will be hard for me but as I started doing the duties that was assigned to me, everything seems to do well. A2. If I am going to evaluate myself, I could say that I had done my duty quite well. As for the good thing in my duty, I think I had done my job pretty well; I had monitored her vital signs accurately and report any unusuality toward the patient. A3. Out of the exposure I had in the Gyne Ward, one of the patient had been admitted with a cyst on her right ovary and I had reflected it to myself wherein I had also undergone the same operation she had then I realized that in dealing patient with cyst, cancer and other known illnesses in women, we must be equipped with more knowledge about the diseases that we may encounter so that we can deliver the appropriate care needed by the patient, and also to alleviate the anxiety of the patient by giving them health teachings and other factors related to their health needs.
A4. In that kind of situation, all we can do is to give the patient the appropriate care she need and teach her about the factors relating to her case. It is not easy to undergone some operation like salpingoooperectomy wherein her right fallopian tube and ovary that had been damaged by the cyst had been removed. We as a nurse must pr
Date: July 3 5, 2014 Clinical Area: ICU 1 7 3 I was assigned as a staff nurse in this rotation. When it comes to ICU, I always feel so nervous that I may encounter some major problem when it comes to health, like a death of a patient. A1. I always felt nervous when in times I am assigned to an ICU area, because you must be quick in every actions/ duty you are assigned to, you must more attentive to your patients. A2.