Nursing Teaching 18911671

  

 My personal philosophy of teaching patients and families is extremely important. First, the cost of healthcare is expensive. Educating our patients can reduce the number of emergency room or office visits. Many ER visits are not necessary and could have been avoided or seen in the doctor´s office with a smaller co-pay then the ER. The goal of education efforts is to improve the quality of care delivered by the nurses. Nurses play a key role in improving the nation´s health and recognize the importance of lifelong learning to keep their knowledge and skills current (DeSilets,1995).

 Nurses are faced with issues when it comes to teaching. Time is a big problem because patients are being discharged at a faster rate and it becomes challenging to teach the patient before discharge. In the cancer center where I work first time patients receiving chemotherapy are so overwhelmed and anxious it is a real struggle for them to understand. I try to have family in on the teaching, so we are all on the same page. Next, there is a percentage of the country who have literacy problems. When teaching keep it simple with out big or technical words. Ask them to repeat what was just said. Also writing simple instructions down helps. Emphasizing on staying healthy while receiving chemotherapy is an on-going process, checking labs and accessing the patient weekly. We do have a lot in interaction with our chemotherapy patients as we have five nurses and it is a small center with twelve chairs.

 
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Nursing Teaching 18911663

 

Recall a clinical learning experience you enjoyed. Describe the experience and identify specific aspects such as educational setting, motivational strategy, learning theory, and delivery of content (how was the material presented).

I have worked as RN in a level one trauma center for about 3 years now, working in the Burn ICU has been one of the biggest challenges I have faced in my nursing career. Some people may assume that the Burn ICU does not care for very sick patients like other units, but in actuality it is so specialized that a well-trained CTICU nurse would struggle. One of the biggest learning experiences I faced since being in the Burn ICU was during a horrible burn trauma activation involving 6 male individuals that were burned while working at the local power plant. It was about 5:45pm, when the charge nurse pager went off with a burn trauma alert. Yes, I happened to have taken over charge nurse at 3:00pm, while managing one patient in the ICU. Back to back the pager went off 6 times, with different burn trauma alerts. Before I knew it, my charge phone was ringing and it was the hospital supervisor informing me that we were going to be transferring out all the patients in our 6 bed ICU to other ICU’s to make room for the 6 burn victims arriving. Suddenly, before we knew it we moved all of our patients and the new burn victims came rolling in. All of the burns were ranging from 60-90% total body surface. I individually managed one of the patients while navigating the unit and med-surg burn floor. It was about 6:30pm, I called in 4 nurses to come in early to help assist with debriding these patients. By the end of the shift at 7pm, all 6 patients were being lined and started on CRRT, along with arterial lines placed and central lines. I somehow had to manage my nursing skills appropriately and take charge of the entire unit. At 7:15p, I lost pulses on my all 4 extremities and my patients bladder pressure was sky rocketing. After about 10 minutes, the plastic surgery team was at the bedside performing fasciotomies and trauma surgery was opening up my patients’ abdomen at beside to help relieve bladder pressure.

During this one individual experience I learned so much about myself. My time management, assessment skills, nursing knowledge and team leadership skills were all put to a test. Thinking back I thought I would have fallen apart, I had only been a RN for a little under two years at this time and I was still questioning all of my skills and abilities. Walking out of the hospital that night I could have not been any more exhausted and discouraged, wondering if I had messed something up or forgotten something. I tried my best to think to myself “you are leaving and you kept this 90% full thickness burn victim alive, that is what you are here for.”

 
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Nursing Teaching 18909739

 

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Recall a clinical learning experience you enjoyed. Describe the experience and identify specific aspects such as educational setting, motivational strategy, learning theory, and delivery of content (how was the material presented).

 
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Nursing Task 19245989

 

In the role of a nurse leader, describe the effective use of  patient-care technologies across the care continuum in a chosen health  care system.

Preparation

Choose any type of health care system, for example, acute, ambulatory, or home health or telehealth.

Directions

Submit the following for this assessment:

Technology Across the Care Continuum

Include the following in your 3–4-page description:

  • A brief overview of the care continuum in your selected health care system.
  • Describe the types of patient-care technologies and how they are  used across the care continuum in your system. Be sure to include  communication and information systems.
  • Identify strengths and weaknesses in the systems and describe how to manage change and technology to improve patient outcomes.
  • Support your description of effective patient care with current nursing and informatics theoretical ideas.
Executive Summary

Based on the description above, add a 1-page executive summary that captures the following points:

  • Current state of technology across the care continuum in your system.
  • Proposed improvements.
  • Risks of making or not making changes or improvements.
  • Recommended next steps.

Additional Requirements

  • Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
  • APA formatting: Format resources and citations according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.
  • Number of resources: Cite a minimum of four peer-reviewed resources.
  • Length: Submit 4–5 typed, double-spaced pages.
  • Font and font size: Use Times New Roman, 12 point. 
 
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