Emergency room! 3-6-15
My responsibilities this week were to assess patient needs, give medication, comfort patient and family, and react quickly and effectively to critical situations.
One new thing I learned is that when patients ask for pain mess after their loved one has left the room they are most likely addicted.
Watching the nurse do an physical assement of a patient who had just came in. She was basically treiaging the patient for the emergency room.
The worst thing was that honestly, I didnt get to see anything because the ER was being evaluated by the hospital people that are up there on the food chain. I felt like they didn't want me in the way to screw anything up.
This week was bad, I was really looking forward to the experience and I didn't get anything out of it.

Technology observed: they have a huge screen with all the patients names, room numbers, and if they were given mess or anything on it.
Diagnostic procedures: they took a man to radiology to get an x Ray because he might have broken his wrist
Therapeutic procedures: they gave a lady something like pepto bismal because she was having tummy problems.
Diseases/disorders: one lady was addicted to pain mess and was a "frequent flyer" at the ER.

Assessment of environment
The ER is a very fast pasted moving place. The room just feels very intense. There are buzzers going off every each direction. It smells of disinfectants. And the people there are rock stars. They are very nice and cool, calm, and collected.
Observation
They have a huge screen with all the patients names, room numbers, and if they were given mess or anything on it; therefore, any nurse that gets to that patient in an emergency can know what meds that patient has had.
Knowledge and evaluation
Mrs. Nguyen, I honestly was not taught anything. They were all focused on the evaluation that they briefly answered my questions and basically put me in a corner of the room.