Aha Moment Essay

Safety: Safety is the number one goal to have when working in the medical field. Our goal in clinical was to make sure everyone remained safe in the workplace, including patients, staff members, and visitors. Some ways how we kept everyone safe included: addressing spills in a timely manner; using the medication rights; keeping bed wheels locked; following standard precautions; double-checking medications and patient charts; answering call lights in a timely manner; hourly rounding; washing our hands; wearing PPE when needed; and so on. There were so many things that we all did during the clinical day to keep all members safe and free from harm. The number one way is to implement standard precautions. According to Wisconsin Department of Health Services (2018), standard precautions is a set of practices to control the spread of diseases and infection that can be acquired in many ways, such as by contact with any bodily fluids,

I love learning the basic skills of a nurse and being able to refresh my memory of skills that I used in my past as a nursing assistant. It is true, we you don’t use it, you lose it. I thought this would never happen to me, but I was wrong because I was grateful, and I immediately asked for help. It is okay to ask for help because better safe than sorry. I feel like the more practice I get with scanning in medications, I feel confident in doing it alone. What I did was observe, do it, and then attempt it on my own (with my instructor next to me). My instructor let me do the steps and I did great! It was an eventful day at clinical, and a bitter sweet one in fact. I can’t believe it is my last day, it makes me sad almost. Time flies by too fast, and I want to thank all my teachers and instructor for being amazing in helping me gain the knowledge needed to be a great nurse in my near future. Thank