Medication Reconciliation Reflection

Throughout the medication reconciliation project, I learned a lot about the medications that my client was on and safety concerns that could be a result of taking these medications. While researching my client’s medication, I did notice safety concerns related to a lot of the medication that she is taking. A common side effect that … [Read more…]

Art in Nursing

Art in nursing is not very well-known to a lot of people. Not many people see a nurse and think of art and vice versa. Art in Nursing has been proven to enhance the observational skills in nurses. Looking at a piece of art and observing it, can help a nurse to better be able … [Read more…]

Nursing Module Reflections 3 & 4

Knowledge and priority setting The third nursing module was about knowledge and clinical judgement. Throughout the module it talked about learning style and critical judgement. Knowing your own personal learning style is very important when you are a student. If you know your own learning style, you are better able to learn what is being … [Read more…]

Nursing Module Reflections

In the first nursing module, Testing and Remediation, we learned a lot about test taking strategies. This information was very helpful to me, as I learned new ways to better take my exams. One of the strategies that they taught us was to put a “+” sign next to an answer that we thought was … [Read more…]

Response to Theresa Brown’s Critical Care

In the book, Critical Care, there are several occurrences of patients’ deaths. Choose one account and discuss your impressions of this experience. What, if anything, surprised you about the situation. What are your feelings about dealing with patient deaths? In the book Critical Care, written by Theresa Brown, she discussed many of her encounters with … [Read more…]

4/29 – switching genres (in class)

After reading the Reflection on an Aural Genre document in Week 15, post on the following questions: How did switching genres from academic paper to podcast allow you to think in a different way about the subject of your paper? Switching genres from the academic paper to the podcast has allowed me to think about … [Read more…]

4/1 – In Class Freewrite

How much does identity matter? Why? How would Gay answer? How would Johnson? What would they say to each other? I think identity matters a lot. It is how people categorize themselves in order to feel accepted. If someone is struggling to accept their identity, they may have problems. Like for example, in the article … [Read more…]

4/1 – Autonomy and Belonging

Autonomy and belonging factor into this article, throughout the whole thing. In the beginning we meet Sigrid Johnson, who was called upon to become a research participant for a study about ancestry DNA. Johnson was adopted when she was a baby from a mother who had an affair and her husband did not want the … [Read more…]

3/27 – Bad Feminist

I do not think Roxanne Gay is a bad feminist. In fact, think she is one. Gay says she agrees with most of what a feminist is pushing for, “I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have a string opinion about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at … [Read more…]