The Beginner Nurse

CHAPTER 1 PREPARATION TO THE JOB A. Transition from beginner to captain Before a comfort can become effective as a health cargon provider he or she should be psychologically and physically prepargond for the job. Psychological preparedness means that the psychogenic set and emotional state of the guard must be piss for the everyday routines and stressors in the job. Psychological preparedness requires assessment of the self or awareness of the self. The declare should know own strengths and limitations as a beginner. The cheer strengths let in the academic theories and trainings in the BSN degree.This leave require the new imbibe to refresh self about those principles, fundamentals, and theories learned from the study. Limitations include lack of skilled skills and dexterity (speed and efficiency in the use of hands) of breast feeding procedures as hospital trainings as a BSN student were non enough to encounter those particular(prenominal) procedures. Expert nurses in t he workplace shall serve as source of the skills not encountered in academic trainings. Proper and appropriate attitude must be adopted in adjusting into working with colleagues who had earned skills and knowledge by their land tenure in their job and the environment they are used to.The beginner nurse must use therapeutic self to gain confidence and confidence with existing staff in the hospital. B. Hospital Policies The beginner nurse, if not tending(p) the opportunity to have job orientation, should strive to know the existing policies of the hospital. Policies which pertains to absences, tardiness, documentations, and precaution of the customers should be given due attention. The beginner nurse cannot instal the preventive of the uncomplaining by sudden absence or tardiness from the job. The nurse should put to mind that the welfare and rubber of the endurings are his or her main cin one caserns.C. in the flesh(predicate) matters A beginner nurse and until much(pren ominal) cartridge clip he or she had become a professional should never allow personal matters to deputize in their responsibilities in the work. This is part of the emotional preparedness of the nurse in order to maintain therapeutic use of the self. CHAPTER 2 THE ROUTINE bring OF A GENERAL NURSE PRACTITIONER There are areas in the hospitals that have frequent routines. Routines are nature of works or responsibilities that are normally done and repeated throughout succeeding shifts of the work.The routine works in departments akin Surgical, Medical, Pediatrics, Isolation, and some critical care units such as the ICU and CCU may have some similarities. But special areas like Operating Theater, Delivery Room, OPD, Emergency, and ambulatory units may have their own unmatched routines. Routines in the special areas in the hospital are not interpreted into con officeration in this handbook but individual items may be applicable to such areas. A. First Endorsement of the Shift Fir st warrantee is defined as an mo of an outgoing nurse in a shift to an incoming nurse.The main purpose of this endorsement is to ensure tenaciousness of care and avoid misplays as well as missing lively hinderances to the uncomplaining such as medications and special instructions. Endorsement will in any case true(p)guard personal safety of the incoming nurse of cases that are pathogenic that deserves special infection precautions. Below is the table for chronological items for endorsement. Table 1. pertinent Chronological Data for Patient Endorsement Patients stir and Bed Number Diagnosis (medical) Attending Physician Age of the patient medicaments supernumerary InstructionsOngoing InterventionsLaboratories and Diagnostics Special Needs of the Patient Latest vital Signs THE PATIENTS NAME and BED NUMBER Knowing your patient is an indispensible part of safety of care. This is to avoid mix up in the naming and documentation of the right patient. Though merely knowing t he name of the patient is not enough this has to be affirmd by the incoming nurse when the nurse performs his or her own rounds. The endorsement shall give the name and the do it number of the patient. DIAGNOSIS Knowledge of the diagnosis or diagnoses are both(prenominal) for the safety of the nurse and the client as well.What is endorsed is the medical diagnosis as de circumstanceined by the attending atomic number 101. With knowledge of the medical diagnosis, a nurse can instantly provide appropriate unconditional and dependent interventions per clinical judgment as he or she performs the nurse rounds. ATTENDING mendelevium Endorsing the name of the attending doc will alert the nurse who to immediately refer to in the event of emergency or urgent spatial relation arises. There should be an established system of how to reach attending physician or an alternate physician in case of emergent situation. unmatchable such system is the permanent list of telephone number to which the physician can be reached. If there is special consultant/s depute to the patient it might as well be included excessively in the endorsement. AGE OF THE PATIENT Age of the patient is necessary for endorsement information so that the incoming nurse can anticipate what nursing approach to implement. MEDICATIONS As a matter of principle, errors in medication are never tolerated. However, no matter we desire for perfection, the chance and occurrence of an error may always be present.Errors in medication have several(predicate) aspects. See Table 2 for types of medication errors. Wrong medication administered once absorbed by the body may have from nil to effective effects. We cannot afford to wait for a serious incident before becoming conscious of the proper medication. Table 2. Some Types of Medication Error 1. ill luck to properly document medication. 2. Missing to carry out medication advice such as new prescription, modification of medicine, and discontinuance of medicin e. 3. Mistake in the congeal name, dosage, route, and timing of the medication. 4.Missed or interrupted medication. 5. Failure to observe Rights to Medication 6. Failure to maintain asepsis in medication administration. 7. Failure to validate doubts to medication. 8. Inappropriate nursing assessment of the client prior to medication administration. modified INSTRUCTIONS Special instructions are instructions coming the jumper lead care provider of the patient such his or her attending physician, specialist, consultant, or from a senior house officer (SNO) Table 3. Some disceptations of Special Instructions 1. Complete bed rest without bathroom privileges (CBR w/o BP) 2.On NPO 3. On clear or liquid diet unaccompanied 4. No dark colored diet5. Gluten free diet 6. Turn to side q certain hours 7. Instructions to known allergies of the patient such as acetylsalicylic acid or a kind of antibiotic 8. For breath retraining eminence the nurse should also exercise clinical judgment to i mplement independent nursing intervention without the instruction of professional advice. Table 4. Some List of Independent Nursing Interventions 1. Nursing assessment 2. Turning the patient 3. compact breathing and coughing 4. Checking of gag or swallowing reflex 5.Vital signs as PRN or stat 6. Referral to head and physician 7. Infection control and safety 8. Splinting of abdominal surgery9. ROM exercise 10. Providing comfort and massage 11. TSB 12. Early safe ambulation 13. Oxygen therapy 14. Positioning of HOB or head of bed 15. spoken suctioning 16. Termination of infiltrated IV access ONGOING and TO BE- CARRIED-OUT INTERVENTION Ongoing intervention is a nursing implementation of an advice that is currently being administered and is attached to the patient when the nurse who initiated it is to leave from work or bound for home.The safety of the client is primary purpose of the importance of this endorsement secondly to avoid miscommunication or confusion to the ingoing process on the patient and finally to ensure tenaciousness of care. It is best to include in this aspect of endorsement relevant info to obtain accurate fluid intake and output monitoring such as the present volume of current IV, all volumes of catheter bags, level of serous fluids in water seal bottles, level of fluids in drainage bag, spray pump, and all other similar procedures. Ongoing lood transfusion endorsement shall include the number of bags required, the current number of bag, number of remaining bag, date and time started, blood and Rh type, Serial number, and date of expiration. It is important that pending or to be-carried- out advice such as diagnostics and laboratory studies and fluid therapy be included as well. Missing out the advice and costly redundancy will be avoided through this way. Important attention should be given to blood transfusion advice. To be carried-out blood transfusion or BT should have outgrowth of cross-matching before implementation.Blood and Rh type for the right patient should be checked three 3 times with the last time to be confirmed by another staff. Table below lists some common intervention that may be having medium or long term intervention. Table 5. Some Medium and Long-Term Interventions 1. IVF therapy 2. Blood transfusion 3. vesica irrigation 4. CTT with water seal bottle 5. Machine Ventilator 6. Lavage 7. Central venous catheter 8. Urinary catheterization9. Phototherapy 10. Wound drainage 11. Hemovac 12. Skin or skeletal clench 13. Infusion pump 14. Syringe pump 15. Antithrombotic device By Dennis D. Monte, University of Sirte, Libya