Reflection Of My Clinical Experience

The last two weeks of clinical has been amazing. It was interesting to see and do various things thought out the clinical placement such as administering TB skin test and reading it two days later, being able to immunize multiple babies under the age of 2 years old, being independent with the influenza clinics, and being independent with the needle exchange program clients (N.E.P). It was very enjoyable clinical experience which I learned lots from the nurses at Public Health.
One of my favorite and most enjoyable part of the clinical experience was being part of the influenza clinics. By the end of the clinical experience, I could immunize both adults and children. In the end, I administered approximately 170 intramuscular injections for influenza clinics. I found myself becoming more comfortable with landmarking the deltoid muscle. The one of the difficult part of the landmarking of older adults who are experiencing
I was able to vaccinate a 20-month-old, 6-month-old, 2-month-old, 12-month-old, and three 4-month-old. One of my least favorite part immunizing children were making them cry when administering the vaccines. The one different that I found between a baby’s skin and an adult’s skin was the babies’ skin felt like butter when inserting the needle into the Vastus lateralis. The most challenging part of the child health clinic I still found difficult was providing informed consent at the two month visits. In one specific visit, I was providing informed consent to second time parents who brought in a toddler in the room, the baby started to cry, and the father started to ask lots of questions. This was very overwhelming for myself so I stopped talking to let the mother, who was listening to me, calm the baby. After the baby was calm and settled, I was able to carry on the informed consent and attempting to answer the parents’