Stimulation Pre-Work Assignment
Last week, we spent time in the stimulation lab at school to practice how to dispense medication, assess vital signs, and educate the patient to improve her diet and her medicine. While others were caring for the patient in her room, another group was watching the entire process in the control room and speaking though the microphone, acting as the patient.
Prior to entering the lab, we had to complete the stimulation pre-work assignment. The assignment included, reviewing the patient’s medical record on Docucare, observing the assessment findings, and medication list. We also had a list of questions to answer regarding, how we would assess and communicate with the patient, what types of complications is the patient at risk for, what are her …show more content…
The computer was touch screen and showed all the necessary vital signs of the patient which I found very beneficial. It was pretty shocking to see how realistic the mannequin was. The mannequin’s pulses were a lot easier to feel than a real person. I felt the femoral artery and doralis pedis within seconds which can take a long time to find on real people. Ultimately, working in the sim lab was a memorable experience. We worked at a much slower pace with the mannequin in the lab than what we do at clinical. Most of the time the patients inside the hospital are not as talkative as we like them to be. The patients do not talk because of multiple reasons, but communicating with my patient is something I would like to improve on because communication is an essential concept to nursing care. Towards the end, I noticed the stimulation lab had forced me to talk more to the patient than I would normally at the hospital. Due to the lack of time, I was not able to go into the control room or dispense medicine to the patient. Although, I was able to watch a demonstration of how to scan the medications onto Docucare. The lab experience allowed me learn more about Docucare. While educating and adminstering the medications, we documented nursing notes into Docucare which I had never done prior to this lab
Prior to entering the lab, we had to complete the stimulation pre-work assignment. The assignment included, reviewing the patient’s medical record on Docucare, observing the assessment findings, and medication list. We also had a list of questions to answer regarding, how we would assess and communicate with the patient, what types of complications is the patient at risk for, what are her …show more content…
The computer was touch screen and showed all the necessary vital signs of the patient which I found very beneficial. It was pretty shocking to see how realistic the mannequin was. The mannequin’s pulses were a lot easier to feel than a real person. I felt the femoral artery and doralis pedis within seconds which can take a long time to find on real people. Ultimately, working in the sim lab was a memorable experience. We worked at a much slower pace with the mannequin in the lab than what we do at clinical. Most of the time the patients inside the hospital are not as talkative as we like them to be. The patients do not talk because of multiple reasons, but communicating with my patient is something I would like to improve on because communication is an essential concept to nursing care. Towards the end, I noticed the stimulation lab had forced me to talk more to the patient than I would normally at the hospital. Due to the lack of time, I was not able to go into the control room or dispense medicine to the patient. Although, I was able to watch a demonstration of how to scan the medications onto Docucare. The lab experience allowed me learn more about Docucare. While educating and adminstering the medications, we documented nursing notes into Docucare which I had never done prior to this lab