HEALTH CARE UNIT COORDINATOR

Health Care Unit Coordinator

Health Care Unit Coordinator

Introduction

This essay focuses on the health care unit coordinator experiences about to cope work environment of change. The rationale for choosing this to Nancy health care unit coordinator is because the she (Nancy) participated fully in providing care needs for patient. A good health care unit coordinator and patient relationship was developed which enabled Nancy to feel confident and at ease whiles providing care. From this interview I learnt and developed new skills, which will be essential for future clinical practice. Because Health care unit coordinator must learn to cope work environment of change

Interview

Nancy Working as a health care assistant in a local hospital she is 26 years old young lady. After a few exchange of ideas she starts to tell about his experience from university days. She stated that about halfway through the second year of my medical degree I started to panic. What if I could not cope with the smell of a hospital? Or could not bear to touch patients' skin? What if I entered the clinical years of my course and found that all the information I had painstakingly committed to memory was completely irrelevant? My own hospital experience was limited to some fairly hazy work shadowing and a couple of visits to elderly great aunts. Being on a traditional medical course I'd only had preclinical teaching and could not expect to encounter patients until clinical school in a year's time. I realised that I needed to gain a more useful insight into the environment that I would be working in.

The best way to do this, I thought, was to work on the wards, so I contacted my local hospital and asked for an application form for auxiliary nursing. My first mistake--auxiliaries no longer exist. There are now healthcare assistants. They were crying out for staff, so getting the job was not too hard. But they did check that I understood what the position involved and was not under the impression that I would be able to practise my catheterisation when things were quiet on the ward.

She stated that, I enrolled on the nurse bank, which gave me the freedom to choose when and where I wanted to work. The medical wards had the most vacancies, so I spent a lot of time there, but I worked on surgical wards and in outpatient clinics ...