Personal Narrative: My Clinical Attachment

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I followed CP’s case over the course of her week in hospital and I feel it is one that will shape my approach to patients and families dealing with chronic illness. Up until this point in my clinical attachment, the diabetic patients that I had met had all been diagnosed for a longer period of time and were familiar with their management routine. CP and her family were all understandably overwhelmed by the sudden turn of events. Her mother stated that “on Monday my little girl had never even been in a hospital before; the next day she was giving herself insulin injections”. In the first few days of CP’s stay in hospital, her mum would become quite teary when I was talking to her. This was due to shock and stress and she had admitted on one