My Clinical Goals
“ My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you” (John 15:12, New International Version). Love regardless… To love my patients regardless of what they do or say, and for that love and concern to be apparent to my patients… My second goal was to not only treat ailments. I am meant to meet the emotional and spiritual needs of others. My last goal was to be competent and to perform interventions without error. Those assertions were my goals for clinical. The first day of clinical was an emotional rollercoaster. Initially, I was experiencing trepidation, failure, lack of confidence, and feelings of incompetence. An agitated patient, failed blood glucose draws, and a blown vein… Nothing was going well with this one particular patient.
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In the afternoon, the patient’s daughter arrived. When I entered the room she asked me several questions. I answered her questions to the best of my ability and conveyed that the nurse could help better explain her father’s predicament. She conveyed that I iterated what the nurse had previously told her. I told her what medications her father was taking, the need for the second iv (Levaquin was not compatible with the insulin), and that her father was placed on a high flow machine and then placed back on the BiPAP per the patient’s request. It made me feel better when I had an answer to her questions. I was able to convey critical care knowledge to a family …show more content…
I did not want to profess a cliché. I wanted to convey the “right” words. I introduced myself and asked how she was doing. She conveyed that she was feeling fine and that she was making funeral arrangements for her son. There was no sadness in her voice, or in her facial expressions. It felt so surreal that she was stoic and seemed unaffected by the tragedy. She talked about her son and had a happy demeanor. She did not need some uplifting and profound statements to make her feel better. God had already intervened. I listened, and with a smile on my face conveyed, “He had a wonderful mother. He was very fortunate to have you in his
In the afternoon, the patient’s daughter arrived. When I entered the room she asked me several questions. I answered her questions to the best of my ability and conveyed that the nurse could help better explain her father’s predicament. She conveyed that I iterated what the nurse had previously told her. I told her what medications her father was taking, the need for the second iv (Levaquin was not compatible with the insulin), and that her father was placed on a high flow machine and then placed back on the BiPAP per the patient’s request. It made me feel better when I had an answer to her questions. I was able to convey critical care knowledge to a family …show more content…
I did not want to profess a cliché. I wanted to convey the “right” words. I introduced myself and asked how she was doing. She conveyed that she was feeling fine and that she was making funeral arrangements for her son. There was no sadness in her voice, or in her facial expressions. It felt so surreal that she was stoic and seemed unaffected by the tragedy. She talked about her son and had a happy demeanor. She did not need some uplifting and profound statements to make her feel better. God had already intervened. I listened, and with a smile on my face conveyed, “He had a wonderful mother. He was very fortunate to have you in his