NURSING EXPERIENCE

Nursing Experience

Abstract

The paper discusses the experience of my own as a nurse. This is the case of mistreatment and lack of team collaboration between the nursing staff at the hospital.

Nursing Experience

Introduction

The role of the nurse has a privileged place in the doctor-patient relationship by both the time and its proximity to the patient. The nurse remains the health professional most continuously involved in direct patient care. It is the biggest player in the organization and administration of care. His personal and professional experience with death invariably influences their perception of the situation. Aware of the impact of their responsibilities, nurses want to change and update their knowledge to conduct a work increasingly meeting the professional standards of quality and research ethics. The development of clinical research nurse has become an imperative. Its objective is centered on the direct and immediate benefit for the patient and for society. Each result to be a step forward and produce a shift is in the diagnostic or therapeutic strategies (D'Antonio, 2010).

I will discuss here the experience as a nurse; in which I had the most difficult situation of my career so far.

What was the situation that occurred, and how did you respond to it? Give as many details as possible?

The problem here was that the hospital, where I was working as a nurse did not respond to the needs of elderly patients the way they did to the younger ones. The culture of the hospital became such that they did not pay more attention to the elderly patients. One day, I was asked to look after the patient who was above 80. He was diagnosed as “failure to thrive”. He was waiting for an available ward bed on the general medicine unit. Gordon had chronic back pain that was poorly controlled at home and had been poorly controlled at the Hospital for the duration of his visit, almost two days in length by the time I assumed care for him. In reviewing his chart, I found that he had received Haloperidol twice (a neuroleptic agent) and that the medication had not been effective in “managing his behavior (Reverby, 2007).”

The behavior that the previous nurse and physician who gave him the Haloperidol set out to manage was the crying out for help from pain and the confusion from having Alzheimer's. Gordon also had a urinary catheter inserted by the previous nurse ...