Today's adventure was similar to the others. I'e adapted well to managing my time and also how to managae patient care. I still acknowledge that I am in ned of learning mor skills but I understand that comes with time and exposure.
Today I've learned to always treat every patient you care for or even see with an undying care for them. I was asked by a nurse assistant to sit in and monitor a patient who was on constant watch. To my surprise, this very patient I had taken care of about a couple months ago while I was in my Advance Med-Surge Clinical Rotations. It was greta to see him again and at the same time very disapointing.
Throughout his stay, months ago, he was very uncompliant. He had respiratory problems to start, and his diagnosis I completely forgot, but after a couple of weeks he was inserted a couple of chest tubes. Still being uncompliant he seemed to have dislodged his chest tube, which he then started screaming. One of the nurses thought he was a drug addict, to pain medications. It could have been true, but I didn't want to label him that way. I still took care of him, not judging and accepting him as any regular human being who is hospitalized. He then left.
Today, like I said, I was surprised to see him. He told me he was in the ER and recenlty arrived on 5 main about 2 days ago. What haoppened to him at home, one can only tell. I did not want to ask, to tell you the truth, he looked really bad, he was SOB and had weezes bilaterall, upper lobes. I did not want to bother him because I wanted him to rest. And again, he was very noncomplaint, he kept walking around, seemed very anxious, and that did not help his breathing which demanded his body to take rests. After a while one of the nurses gave him Zanax for anxiety.
When he saw me, he recognized me, and it was a very nice rememberance, but at the same time it was dissapponting seeing him there. Nontheless, we must trrat all patients withh respect and care as nurses. We must not lok down, but encourage them to get better,
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