Reflection Essay

My Resilience during COVID-19 COVID-19 has been a real eye opener for people across the world. I do not believe that anyone could have expected this to have happened. When quarantine began back in March of last year, I had no idea it would turn out the way it did. When we first learned about … [Read more…]

Ethical Considerations for EBP

Nurse’s play an important role in ethical conduct and research implementation. My understanding of this has somewhat changed because I learned that nurses play an important role in the ethical conduct and implementation. Before, I assumed that nurses have played a role in implementation and contribution to the research. Nurse’s care about their patients and … [Read more…]

Assumptions

I do not have much knowledge on a nurse’s role in ethics regarding the evidence implementation and generation. I think that nurses have a role in implementing and generating the ethical evidence because they are more often with the patients than the doctors are. They spend the most time around them, so gathering information about … [Read more…]

Appraisal and synthesis (EBP step 3) (post 3 of 7)

Through evidence appraisal and synthesis, we found out a lot about out topic. We discovered that there was a correlation between a mother’s low socioeconomic status and her development of postpartum depression. We found that mother’s that had a lower socioeconomic status were more at risk for developing postpartum depression mostly because of their lack … [Read more…]

Simulation 1 Reflection

I thought that simulation went very well today. I was nervous going into the simulation because I did not know what to expect from it, but that is an expected response to any sort of new experience. I feel as though I learned alot from this experience. It is so different using your therapeutic communication … [Read more…]

Discussion 1: Stigma

I believe that there is so much stigma associated with mental health because of social media and the internet. Most of the time, when mental illness is discussed, it is regarding the negative side effects of the illness. When a mental illness is talked about in public, it’s usually shown as the person acting “crazy” … [Read more…]

Empathy Reflection

Empathy and compassion are the backbones of the healthcare field. When taking care of patients, it is important to be empathetic and compassionate towards your patients, as this can help to build a good relationship between the nurse and the patient. Therapeutic conversations are important in nursing because being able to communicate therapeutically, will allow … [Read more…]

How I Made a Difference

During our short time at clinical, I feel as though I did make a difference in the patient’s care even though us student nurses could not do as much with the patients as we would have liked to. One day during my clinical rotation I was taking vital signs for one of the CNA’s and … [Read more…]