Nursing Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep1ZVAs88sM

This month during research check 5, I've discovered something interesting about nursing. This video talks about how healthcare sectors believe that nursing is in a crisis. Nurses are pushed to a limit with long hours and low salary packages. There is people that are still interested in the profession but early in the current government, they closed all the nursing colleges for a long time. Then they started opening it up but that has a lag effect because the nurses that are going into those colleges now takes four years to get through them. That's why some students that want to enter the profession, jungle getting the education from college about nursing and getting hands on training in nursing.

Blog 6: Second Interview Preparation

1.  Who is your mentor and where do they work?
 My mentor is Gloria  Detabali who is a RN at Citrus Inter-Community Hospital. She has a background of being a doctor in the Philippines.   

2.  What five questions will you ask them about their background?

1. How long have you been in working in Citrus Inter-Community Hospital? 
2. Where did you go to school? What made you choose to be a doctor then become a RN? 
3. How long have you been in the nursing and doctor profession for?
4. What are some challenges that you faced when you decided to become a nurse in America?
5. What is you best advice you can give to a person who wants to be in this profession? 

Blog 5: Mentorship and Research Reflection

Mentorship question: Describe your experience in how you found your mentorship?

• Finding a mentor was kind of hard for me to find. During the summer I didn't have a mentor at first, but a couple of weeks ago I found two mentors that will help me and answer my questions for my senior project. 

Research question: What has been your most important article you have read so far and why?

•  The most important article the I have read so far is a book called, "Change Your Career: Nursing As Your New Profession" by Barbara Arnoldussen. This book helped me discover the nursing profession more interesting. While reading the book, it helped me answer my EQ and also gave me more information about the profession that I didn't know.When I read the book, I found out that the nursing profession is branched to 36 different types of nurses. I didn't know that there is a pacifically for head and neck injures, helping a newly mother how to breastfeed, and that care and support patients that are diagnosed with cancer. Also, I discovered that there is a nurse that works at camps, government and private agencies, a flight nurse that helps transfer patients by helicopter or ambulance, and nurses that work in the Navy, Army, and Air Force to provide medical care for the soldiers.        

First Day Of Mentorship

I've visited Casa Colina couple of times before school started. During my time there, I had my first orientation of the hospital and then I was introduced to my advisers who are in charged in the department that I was assigned to. During the tour, I observed how the staff was courageous and how the hospital is very nice and neat. At my second orientation, I was introduced to where I was placed which was at Patient Safety. The three advisers of the department introduce themselves and explained the Patient Safety Program and duties. After that, one of the advisers gave a tour of the east and west wing of the hospital and showed where each office and cleanlinens and supply closets were located. Then an other adviser explained the proper way to wash hands and rub handitizer correctly. Then were given at clinical orientation about patient safety and what each patient wrist bands meant, like yellow wrist bands are for patients that are in risk in falling and isolation precaution signs were. Also explained each code meant like code blue is patient not breathing and what communication boards were used for; patient info, contacts, nurses, allergies, etc. I haven't had a lot of hands on volunteering experience there, so every Saturday I will be going there for three to four hours there to gain more knowledge about Patient Safety.  
 

Blog 4: Interview Preperation

1.Who do you plan to interview?  Why?
    The person that I'm going to interview is Elvessa my mother who is a nurse. I want to interview her because she has been in the field of nursing for about15 years, so she has experienced patient safety for a long time that she can guide me with my project.

2.You have to ask 5 questions.  What additional questions do you plan to ask?

1. How long have most nurses been on the unit?
2. What steps do you take to ensure safe working conditions?
3. What challenges is this facility facing?
4. How will you deal with difficult patients and/or their families?
5. Can you describe a time when you had to intervene for a patient, what you did, and why? What was the outcome? 

      Additional Questions 

• How do you motivate patients?
• What would you do if you were caring for an alert patient who suddenly got acutely confused and disoriented?
• How to deal with patients that have a hard time communicating with nurses? 
• What are the national patient safety goals?
• Do you learn something new every time you are at work? Like new technique or new discovery of a patient's illness. 
• What are some challenges that you faced with a patient? 

  
    
  

Blog 3: Topic Choice and Working EQ

1. List your topic:

• Nursing (Patient Safety) 

2. Write a question that helps to focus your research this month.

• As a nurse, what are some challenges that are faced in patient safety? 

  

Blog Post 2: Summer Mentorship

1)  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DcBqC-Wa085D5DGLuWPylIwBpJoXi5XmC4oiiMBEOhg/edit#gid=0

2. Mentors Contact:

Jack Griswold
Heart To Heart (CPR Class)
(714)-891-5620

Christine Chaaban
Casa Colina Centers for Rehabilitation
(909)-596-7733 x2154

3. Questions that raised up:

• What are the best ways to make a patient feel like they are in a friendly environment?
• As a registered nurse, is it a good place to start at rehabilitation center?
• What’s process of taking a patient to the next level of treatment?
• Do I want to be a registered nurse at a rehab facility or at a community hospital?

4.  The most important thing I gained from my mentorship is that the rehab facility it is a lot of interactions with each patient. I was able to see how the nurses get to communicate with their patient in so many ways. I got a better understanding about how to keep the patient happy and comfortable at there stay at the rehab center.

5. My senior project is about nursing. Being a volunteer at Casa Colina has taught me a lot of ways that a nurse interacts with their patients and how to help them progress from one level of achievement to the next at their stay at Casa Colina. The rehab center helped me by giving me a little experience with patients and interactions with some of the patients at the center.