My First Clinical Day
Five days ago on February 3rd of 2016 was my first clinical day in the Rehabilitation Center in Key West. Today, before starting to write my weekly journal I started to ask myself how I felt on my first day at the clinic?. Four words came to my mind, pride, joy, fear and anxiety. Pride and joy because I am proud of where I’ve come so far as being an immigrant who came to this country as many others looking for their dream without knowing the language or even the culture. Fear and anxiety because I was nervous about having the feeling of not knowing anything, not knowing about what I would find there, the site or even the people. I believe that I felt anxious at 6:00 am in the morning because I was going to confirm if nursing was the profession, I want to practice for the rest of my life. …show more content…
At first when I started taking vital signs of the residents I had a sense of not being well prepared to start doing already nursing staff, but my Professor told me something that made me think "If you do not start practicing now, you are not going to learn to do it well and no one will come to do it for you ". When I help to dress and transfer a sweet lady, clean a woman that needs to be ready for her massage therapy that was coming, inspect the urine, serve breakfast and pushed fluids to an incredible person I felt that I was in the right place, although I don't have all the medical, psychological education and that I was afraid and nervous of doing something wrong. In one point I was exhausted because we're running to do everything that we needed and attend the next patient, but I recognize that agility, be effective and prepare are an important part of this career as many lives depend on
Five days ago on February 3rd of 2016 was my first clinical day in the Rehabilitation Center in Key West. Today, before starting to write my weekly journal I started to ask myself how I felt on my first day at the clinic?. Four words came to my mind, pride, joy, fear and anxiety. Pride and joy because I am proud of where I’ve come so far as being an immigrant who came to this country as many others looking for their dream without knowing the language or even the culture. Fear and anxiety because I was nervous about having the feeling of not knowing anything, not knowing about what I would find there, the site or even the people. I believe that I felt anxious at 6:00 am in the morning because I was going to confirm if nursing was the profession, I want to practice for the rest of my life. …show more content…
At first when I started taking vital signs of the residents I had a sense of not being well prepared to start doing already nursing staff, but my Professor told me something that made me think "If you do not start practicing now, you are not going to learn to do it well and no one will come to do it for you ". When I help to dress and transfer a sweet lady, clean a woman that needs to be ready for her massage therapy that was coming, inspect the urine, serve breakfast and pushed fluids to an incredible person I felt that I was in the right place, although I don't have all the medical, psychological education and that I was afraid and nervous of doing something wrong. In one point I was exhausted because we're running to do everything that we needed and attend the next patient, but I recognize that agility, be effective and prepare are an important part of this career as many lives depend on