495L -B week 3 replies

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Due date 11/20/2020

Week 3 Discussion Prompt

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Discuss two areas of difficulty you encountered or two new nursing interventions you learned this week at your clinical site. You may also choose to share one of each. Please remember to respond to two of your peers.

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Reply 1 Jennifer

The teaching theory I chose is Humanism. Humanism, a paradigm that emerged in the 1960s, focuses on the human freedom, dignity, and potential. A central assumption of humanism, according to Huitt (2001), is that people act with intentionality and values. The human component has slowly faded with technology and social media. Due to the pandemic, human contact all disappeared for too many. Especially our elderly. Humanizing ourselves again to value what is truly important and tangible is how to approach this assignment.

Now that I’m older I regret not getting a recipe from my Nana. She used to make this dessert when I was little that I Loved. I got older, got married, she got older and then sick. I never thought about that dessert during that time because, well, life. She passed 17 years ago and that recipe haunts me because I can’t find it anywhere. Google Shmoogle. Our current generation needs to create a safety net and a plan to protect and absorb what we can from our elders.

Reply 2 Leasia

As a nursing and rehabilitation professional, I learned new interventions and encountered difficulties working in my clinical setting this week. In most cases, nurses administer various nursing methods to improve their patients’ quality of life. For instance, when handling stroke patients, nurses change their sleeping posture after two hours and place them in a prone position for about thirty minutes every day (Fujino et al., 2016). The intervention helps to prevent pushing behavior and enhance mobility (Fujino et al., 2016). In this regard, I learned a new approach to help a stroke patient improve his independence. After the individual started sitting down, one of the experienced nurses directed me to encourage the patient to perform simple tasks done by hand, and gradually add more activities every day. Al-Abedi and Hamza (2016) state that nursing and rehabilitation centers should develop self-care routines for stroke patients and encourage them to be independent. However, I learned that interventions do not work if nurses fail to improve their patients’ morale and offer emotional support to avoid discouragement and fatigue. I helped the patient get dressed for the ambulatory activities every day and noticed that he had an elevated mood. Therefore, I learned that integrating emotional support in interventions intensely reinforces the healing process and promotes patients’ health.

However, I faced a difficult situation when working in the facility. While attending to a patient with a chronic condition this week, the parents asked me to employ end-of-life care for the patient since they wanted her to stop suffering. At first, I tried to convince the patients’ parents that their daughter was in good hands. However, the caregivers were adamant that they wanted the patient to rest and stop tolerating the pain. Although the situation was challenging, I talked to the parents again by stating that the hospital was doing its level best to improve her condition, and they changed their opinion. The patient’s condition is improving, and she is recuperating in the facility. I learned that nursing and rehabilitation center professionals encounter an array of clinical and ethical cases, and I should be ready to address them effectively.