Blog #3 Med-Surg-7
My responsibilities in med surg are…
-assess patients; administer medications; ease pain; encourage activity; prevent complications; interpret rhythm strips; monitor labs; insert IVs; change dressings; educate patients and families; comfort the dying

-This week the nurse taught me how to take vitals and how to chart things with the computers

- The best thing that happened this week was being trusted enough to go around and take vitals for patients while my nurse was charting

- The worst mistake I made was when i forgot to take off my gloves after taking vitals on a patient and I  touched the machine, so I had to clean off the machine and wash down everything

- This week was very good, because i learned new skills and my nurse was very open to teaching me new things

Technology observed:
-Learning how to chart, and seeing a dialysis machine

Diagnostic Procedures:
-They brought in a portable X-ray to check if a lady had kidney stones, and it turned out she had 5. 

Therapeutic Procedures:
-Mostly just giving out pain medication, but I saw them take the kidney stone lady out to surgery to have them removed

Diseases: 
-One guy had a heart attack, one lady had a mass of kidney stone

Medical termonolgy:
-cardic infarction 

Assessment of Enviroment: 
The environment is very clean and well organized. Each nurse has their own rolling desk with a computer. The floor is very hectic and busy. You see a lot more patients being taken up to surgery or coming back. There are a lot more critical cases on the 7th floor too. 

Observation:
The nurses are very nice they all talked to me like I was older than I am and it made me feel well respected up there. They work well as a team and always appreciate others time, they have not problem helping each other out when the other is in need. 

Knowledge:
The nurse taught me how to chart things like taking a bath and administering meds. She also taught me the importance of the reason to save the vital signs, so when they got to chart them they are all there on the log on the machine, so they can see if the vitals have changed for the patient. 

Evaluation:
My experience on this rotation was phenomenal! I learned so many things i never knew I could know. My nurse really cared about teaching me too. I will be able to take these experiences and used them later on in life.