Nursing Practicum
As time flies, term 2 clinical practicum has passed. This time, I was allocated to C6 ward, B5 ward, CSSD, Paediatric ward and B7 ward. Comparing with last practicum, the more the nursing procedures I have learnt, the more the treatment I can do and handle. It seems that I become an useful person in the ward routine. Also precisely because of this, I have experienced a lot about what the real nursing care means. Now, I would like to share what I have learn in paediatric ward and a clinical experience which happened in B7 ward.
In paediatric ward, I not only learn many diseases that are common in children, but also learn more about communication skill. Different from adult ward, the problems we need to cope with always come from parents. Some parents may be very unhappy and have unstable emotion because their children are afflicted by diseases. We need to care about the emotion of both children and parents. Also, we need to be careful when we explain the patients' condition because parents' mood is easily influenced by it. Therfore, for me, the most challenging task is how to comfort parents with proper methods.
In B7 ward, there is a 65 year-old man who is diagnosed with benign prostate hypertrophy. He admitted for doing TURP under SA. After operation, he looked weak and pale. The named nurse assigned us to monitor his vital signs hourly and keep look out his condition. In fact his vital signs was normal and the irrigation was running well. However, the paient complained of wanting to go to toilet and void. At that time, I explained to him that he could not walk after anesthesia and also it is no need to void himself because he had a foley in which the urine passing out of the body. Then, every ten minutes, he pressed the call bell and said that he really wanted to go to toilet. It seems that he did not undersatnd what I was saying. I continued to do the same explanation. After I ate dinner and round the ward, I discovered he got out of the bed. I felt shocked
In paediatric ward, I not only learn many diseases that are common in children, but also learn more about communication skill. Different from adult ward, the problems we need to cope with always come from parents. Some parents may be very unhappy and have unstable emotion because their children are afflicted by diseases. We need to care about the emotion of both children and parents. Also, we need to be careful when we explain the patients' condition because parents' mood is easily influenced by it. Therfore, for me, the most challenging task is how to comfort parents with proper methods.
In B7 ward, there is a 65 year-old man who is diagnosed with benign prostate hypertrophy. He admitted for doing TURP under SA. After operation, he looked weak and pale. The named nurse assigned us to monitor his vital signs hourly and keep look out his condition. In fact his vital signs was normal and the irrigation was running well. However, the paient complained of wanting to go to toilet and void. At that time, I explained to him that he could not walk after anesthesia and also it is no need to void himself because he had a foley in which the urine passing out of the body. Then, every ten minutes, he pressed the call bell and said that he really wanted to go to toilet. It seems that he did not undersatnd what I was saying. I continued to do the same explanation. After I ate dinner and round the ward, I discovered he got out of the bed. I felt shocked