My journey from the Nurse's station to the first patient’s …show more content…
(SU, 2016) The second patient that my partner and I were assigned to was a patient with conditions of diabetes mellitus with complications. I performed the bed bath with best of my abilities, and did integumentary assessment, but definitely omitted large parts of the physical assessment. In retrospect, my focus was so much on doing the bed bath right and checking the integumentary that other areas of physical assessment lacked my attention. Therefore, I will need to review and continue to practice physical assessment. The patient did talked about his career and family, he smiled when he talked about his