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My Experience At Healthsouth Rehabilitation Hospital Of Largo

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After being at the clinical site for over a month now, I have found my experience at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Largo to overall be very educational and preparatory for the upcoming semesters and future clinical site rotations. I believe the essential factors contributing to my successful experience included not only my clinical instructors, but also the variety of patients I had the opportunity to care for. I believe the diversity of disease processes and injuries I was exposed to over the last month helped me to broaden my sense of patient care experience, and overall better understand how one disease can essentially affect the holistic well-being of a client. Reflection: Over the course of this semester’s clinical rotation, I set out to try to achieve a better sense of what being a nurse in the rehabilitation setting meant. Shortly after, I found out that the objectives of rehabilitation meant safety- not only for the patient, but also for the nurse as well. While working with mainly with geriatrics this semester, emphasis was placed on, but not limited to: fall precautions, maintaining open airways, and in general, prevention of nosocomial infections. During active interventions to …show more content…

Although I strived to take care of my patient and also participate in helping as many other clients as I could, I feel like there was always an extra opportunity another classmate had with their patient, simply due to their patient’s condition, that they could further learn from. Nonetheless, when possible, I always chose clients or requested to be assigned to clients with different diagnoses that I did not have prior experience with, and because of this, I do believe that I did learn a diversity of procedures, instruments, and overall specified, patient-centered

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