Homework Lance
Criteria
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Demographics: Provide initials of the RN, official job title of interviewee, and the date the interview was conducted.
Nurse: R.B,ICU Nurse Director.
Feb 12th 2024
Required Questions
(answer EVERY question in this section)
- Describe your career path to your current position. Include information about education and experiences.
I really enjoy paddle surfing. Once or twice in every week, I usually go out, paddle surfing. Each time I would go out I would see this sea lion; he would pop his head out facing me like he was looking at me. I got used to seeing him, I even named him Taki. One day I go out and see Taki but he is doing this weird twisting thing in the water. I paddle over and I see he got a red marine rope made of hemp wrapped around his neck and one of his fins. I freaked out and tried to get it off with my paddle but it did not work. I jumped in the water tried to save him but he disappeared under the water and I never saw him again.
Since this incidence I swore to myself that I was going to study anything related to medicine. I settled to nursing believing and hoping that if Taki ever resurfaced again I would be able to apply my expertise and save him.
Nursing is the profession of providing health care to the needy. American nursing association defines nursing as the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, communities, and populations. Nursing is a career path chosen by many, me being one of them. Research conducted by Columbia University- my former nursing school- shows that nursing is one of the fastest growing professions within the United States, with an unemployment rate of only 2% and a median salary of nearly $66,000 each year. Although it’s tougher to enter healthcare industry, holding a nursing degree will make it easier. Columbia University is one of the top nursing schools in the nation and teaches one all the aspects of being a nurse and being good at it.
- Discuss the value of best evidence as a driving force in delivery of nursing care at your facility.
Nursing is a very tasking duty; I take it as both a passion and a professional.Positive attitude will surpass all challenges that one experience in providing nursing care. Keeping things in the right perspective can help a lot. This will enable one not to give up easily when things get tougher. A positive attitude and a clear point of view will enable one make it in delivery of nursing care. Delivery of nursing care is very tasking, one will experience ups and downs but with the right attitude and drive, one will make it.
- What safeguards and decision-making support tools are embedded in patient care technologies and information systems that support safe practice at your facility?
Appropriate platforms for most and delicate technologies in the hospitals are the safest practice mostly advised and advocated in hospitals. Another major safe practice mostly used in hospitals is education to all healthcare providers. All healthcare providers are given proper education on how to use and operate the technological equipment’s in the hospitals in order to avoid damages and any related fatal incidences.
- Tell me about patient care technologies that have improved patient care at your facility.
Today healthcare is met with many fatal damages and shortage of healthcare providers to cater the outgrowing population of the people in need of healthcare especially the aging population. For example, the major cause of fatal damages in most hospitals is caused by prescribing errors. Prescribing errors in hospitals is a common problem in mostly general hospitals and few cases found in private hospitals. Prescribing errors in hospitals include wrong administering of drugs; oral or injections, to inpatients, lack of understanding of what is written on the prescribing notes for the patients, nurses and pharmacists’ ignorance and violation of prescribing rules due to busy working conditions. Prescribing errors is a major and increasing problem in hospitals today. To eliminate this and many other problems that’s where technology comes in handy. The most efficient and commonly used technology in this organization is HIMS which stands for hospital information and management system. HIMS is software that integrates all functioning of the hospital right through from registration of an out-patient to an in-patient and takes a patient through all departments of the hospital without physical movement. Telehealth and telemedicine equipment are also commonly in our facility. These equipment’s have greatly improved service giving in our hospital. They reduce prescribing errors and provide efficient services to our clients.
- What groups of healthcare workers rely on you to collect high-quality information or data and how is it utilized?
Some of the organizations of healthcare workers who rely on my information and our data includes: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) and department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These two organizations are mostly concerned with the best healthcare provision to all patients throughout different countries. For example, NCCAM uses our data to determine the need for CAM its effectiveness and demand versus conventional western medicine. HHS is also concerned with the best healthcare provision and fair treatment to all patients and human beings.
Optional Questions
(Answer only ONE question from the choices below.)
- Please tell me what challenges you have faced in dealing with other disciplines who may not “understand the needs of nurses/nursing?”
- Please share an example of how GIGO (garbage in, garbage out) impacted a decision related to your information or data collection.
- Please give me an example of how the lack of interprofessional collaboration impacted your role.
Prescribing errors is common in most hospitals and can cost someone their career and license. I was a victim of prescribing errors due to a misunderstanding with an associate in the hospital. Prescribing errors is not only as a result of ignorance but also lack of knowledge and skills. Patients and other health practitioners lack enough and adequate knowledge and end up making prescribing errors. Different departments in the hospitals also contribute to prescribing errors differently. Some departments in hospitals require high demand of prescribed medicines than other departments; such departments like ICU require a lot of prescribed medicine in a day. This contributed to the mistake of prescribing errors and I nearly lost my license. Lack of knowledge on upgrading and new type of medicines coming up on daily basis may also contribute to prescribing errors. In order to avoid this mistake awell-planned implementation process for the education solution on prescribing errors in hospitals should be formulated.
- Please describe what a typical day on the job is like for you.
Follow-Up Questions
(Answer all of these. Please do not ask them during the interview.
Instead, reflect and answer them afterwards.)
- How will completing this interview impact your practice as a BSN-prepared nurse? Give specific examples.
This interview will enable me to go through the rigors of nursing school, and how can I best prepare myself. During the interview I was able to grasp on how best to prepare myself and become a better nurse. What I learnt during this interview was that the ultimate preparation for any academic related issue is being prepared. Nursing school is a very tasking process and takes a lot of one’s time, therefore, one need to be prepared. Always have the right material for lectures that includes; the right books for different classes and writing materials. Also one need to have a nearby locker to keep the reading materials since nursing school books can be heavy. A calendar, watch and a computer are also part of the preparation. Nursing school entails a lot research and information technology will come in handy.
- Resources (scholarly articles or texts). Indicate 2 scholarly resources or texts used prior to the interview to familiarize yourself with the individual’s organization, role, or any of the questions you asked to make you a more knowledgeable interviewer.
Resource #1: Magrane, .D, & Jolly, P. “The changing representation of men and women in Academic medicine.” Analysis in brief, 5, 2007
Resource # 2: Joel. L.A, “Kelly’s Dimensions of professional nursing.” New York. McGraw hill. 2003
Web. 1st ed. 5 Nov. 2014. Utica college. 5 Nov. 2014 <http://uticanursing.com/author/jessie-hansel lorbiseducation-com/page/3/>.
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