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This week in clinical, I got my first patient to take care of. I was very excited, but overwhelmed. I went in the patient's room and introduced myself. The patient stated he wants to eat breakfast, so I helped him with that and watched him eat because of him having aspiration pneumonia. My patient was a 64 year old male, diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia, with past history of stroke causing him to have left sided weakness, and was legally blind in right eye. Before helping the patient with breakfast, I quickly did a full set of vital signs. After breakfast, I did am care for my patient. After that, I did a head to toe assessment following the sheet provided by the clinical instructor. Then, I reviewed my chart more carefully and looked
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