Chelsea Youngman - Course of Study

N20010

Interpersonal/Communications for Health Care Professionals

Competencies:

• Communication Skills
• APA writing style
• Presentation Skills
• Engaged Classroom Discussions
• Critical Thinking Skills
• Different Health Care Roles
• Assertive Communication

EBP: N/A

Personal Reflection: I enjoyed this class a lot. It helped me to feel more comfortable about talking in front of people. It also helped me to become more assertive as a person. I also learned about a lot of different healthcare roles and look forward to doing more research on the different roles that interested me.

N20020

Assessment and Communication in Nursing

Competencies:

• Learned how to take different vital signs
• IPR
• Head to Toe Assessment
• Use of different laboratory equipment
• Dosage Calculations
• Therapeutic Communication

EBP: Concept Care Maps

Personal Reflection: I have a much better understanding of nursing after taking this class. It helps me to understand how to become a great nurse and also gives me an appreciation for nursing. It also helped me learned how to give the correct dosage of medications and to ensure the accuracy of the dosing.

N20030

Foundations of Nursing Interventions

Competencies:

• Head to Toe assessments in the clinical setting
• Wound Care
• Operating Room
• Peri Care
• Implementation of the Nursing Process in the clinical setting
• Patient Care Plans
• Patient Diagnosis
• Enemas
• Dressing Changes
• Ostomys
• Catheters
• NG Tubes
• Passing Medications (Oral, IM, & SQ)

EBP: Concept Care Maps, Diagnostic Lab Sheets (view),  IPR (view)

Personal Reflection: I was happy to get into the clinical setting and practice the skills I already knew how to do. I also enjoyed learning about and how to perform the different skills I will have to perform in the next clinicals to come.

 

N30050

Basic Nursing Informatics

Competencies:

• Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts of the development, scope and application of nursing informatics.
• Demonstrate use of selected information technology and terminology related to nursing informatics.
• Apply informatics competencies needed for nurses practicing in the current health care environment.
• Discuss informatics applications for quality care and patient safety.

Patient Teaching: H1N1 Nursing Proposal (view)


EBP: Concept Care Map (view)

Personal Reflection: I really enjoyed this class. It taught me different methods of charting. It also gave me a better understanding of why technology is used in the healthcare field.

 

N30030

Nursing of Adults in Acute Care Settings

Competencies:

• Head to toe assessment of the adult in the acute care settings
• Proper IV care, starting IV's, hanging IV medications, IV pushes/piggybacks
• Electronic Charting
• Injections 
• Student Team Leader
• Caring for two patients
• Medication Pass
• Special Experiences: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Cardiac Cath Lab, Cardiac Diagnostics, Respiratory Therapy
• Critical Thinking Exercise
• Effective Communication with both nurses and patients
• Disease Pathophysiology

Patient Teaching: Discharge Instructions, Cough and Deep Breathing

EBP: Clinical Prep Work (view), Medication Prep Sheet (view), Nursing Process Paper (view)

Personal Reflection: I really enjoy this semester. I feel that I learned a lot more and got a lot more hands on experience. I also enjoyed being student team leader. I feel that I did a good job in being a team leader and I was effective in doing the position I was supposed to do. It was a good role for me because I would like to be the manager of a nursing unit. I also enjoyed all of the different special experiences we were able to experience with my favorite being hyperbaric oxygen therapy.

N30040

Nursing of Adults with Rehab Needs and/or Gerontologic Changes

 

Competencies:

• Head to toe assessment of the older adult
• Administering medications to more than one patient
• Taking care of more than one patient
• Administering TB shots
• Administering flu shots
• Bowel and Bladder Changing
• Dressing Changes
• IV care, hanging IV medications, IV push/piggyback
• Weekly Journals
• Fall Risk Program

EBP: Special Experience (view), Nursing Process Paper (view), Gordon's Functional Health Patterns (view)

Personal Reflection: The experience in the nursing home was a totally different experience than being at the hospital. I have different feelings on the nursing home. I don't think it would be a job that I would like. I didn't feel that there was enough patient to nurse communication, it was mainly just passing medications. I would rather have the patient interaction rather than passing medications all the time.

N30010

Maternal and Newborn Nursing

 

Competencies:

• Postpartum Assessment of Mother
• Assessment of newborn
• IM injections for mother and baby
• Knowledge of common OB/postpartum medications
• Weekly Journals

Special Experience: Labor & Delivery

Patient Teaching:

• Discharge Instructions for mother and baby
• Co-Sleeping
• Proper Feeding Times

EBP: Case Study Powerpoint (view)

Personal Reflection: I personally loved this class! I thought I learned a lot of information and really excelled. I would love to work in labor and delivery and postpartum so this was a good experience for me. The nurses on the floor were really nice and all of my patients were awesome to work with. They were very understanding and let me do everything I needed to do without argument and were had a lot of patience while I was learning something new.

 N30020

Healthcare of Children

Competencies:

• Assessment of the pediatric child
• Safe dosage calculation (by weight in kg)
• Computer Charting
• Respiratory Pathway
• Proper communication with children of different ages
• Proper communication with parents of ill children
• Caring for children of different ages, cultures, and backgrounds
• Post-treatment assessment
• IV pushes/flushes
• Admission procedures/assessments
• Discharge instructions
• Patient/Parent teachings

EBP: Nursing Process Paper (view)

Patient Teachings: Taught about when to suction an infants nose and how to properly suction. Taught how to properly pull up medications in a syringe and how to give medications. Proper feeding of infants and overfeeding. Also taught about how to properly medicate for a fever.

Personal Reflection: This semester was a lot different than what I expected. There were difficult times this semester and I didn't handle them as well as I could have. I have learned from those situations and feel I can be a better nurse because of them. I really enjoyed working with little kids and watching them improve in their situation. Most of my parents were very receptive to the teachings I gave and were happy that I worked so well with them and took care of their kids so well. I also was able to start my first IV ever in this clinical rotation and I was able to get it on my first try! I felt really good about myself and my patient and her mother were proud of how well I did. They stated that I did really well for my first time.

N40030

Psychiatric Nursing

 

Competencies:

• Therapeutic Communication
• Self Awareness Journals
• Special Experience: Crisis Center
• Special Experience: Foundations
• Special Experience: Akron Children's Hospital
• IPR
• Biopsychosocial Assessment
• AA meeting

EBP:

IPR: used therapeutic communication to assist patient's in overcoming/understanding/coping with their mental illness

Biopsychosocial Assessment: developed nursing diagnoses related to mental illness and developed goals and interventions using scholarly journals.

Patient Teaching: How to Effectively Cope with Anxiety using art/writing feelings in a journal

Personal Reflection: This was definitely a different experience than I have ever had before but I really enjoyed it. It gave me sense of self worth knowing that I was able to help someone reduce their anxiety and make them feel better. It was hard getting use to using therapeutic communication. It was also a little intimidating and scary asking patient's questions the first time. I had no idea what to expect. I enjoyed going to Heartland Behavioral Healthcare but I really enjoyed the Crisis Center and Akron Children's Hospital. I thought these were both very interesting and great experiences to attend.

N40005

Professional Development

Competencies:

• Cover Letter/Resume
• Seminar Discussion/Facilitation
• Peer Review
• Professional Meeting Attendance
• Writing a Scholarly Paper
• Development of Professionalism

EBP: Scholarly Paper (Diversity in Nursing) (view)

Personal Goals: 1 year after graduation and passing of the NCLEX-RN exam, I would like to be working part time in a hospital setting (critical care/ED) and working towards graduating from a paramedic program. 5 years after graduation, I would like to have my Master's Degree and be teaching at the university level along with working as a flight nurse.

Personal Reflection: I enjoyed this class. It taught me a lot about different topics that are important in nursing such as diversity, violence, and professionalism. It also taught me a lot about taking the NCLEX-RN exam and how to prepare for the exam. I also feel that I have grown as a professional in nursing.

N40045

Integration of Leadership and Management in Nursing

Competencies:

• Working 120 hours in the Emergency Department
• Assuming total care for 3 patients in the department
• Trauma nursing
• NG insertion
• Straight Cath/Foley Catheter Insertion
• Multiple IV starts
• Post Mortum care
• CPR
• Time management
• Therapeutic Communication
• Working as part of the healthcare team
• Learning Hospital Protocols
• Evidence based practice

EBP: 120 hour journal (view); Professional Issue Presentation (view)

Patient Teaching: Explaining the reason, use, and side effects of medications administered. Admission and discharge information.

Personal Reflection: This was definitely a challenging experience for me, but it was so rewarding. I was very scared to start in the Emergency Department but I am so glad I chose this experience. I learned more things and seen more things that I have never experienced before. It was a great experience. My preceptor was awesome and showed me everything and allowed me to do anything and everything. I was able to see the process of caring for a heart attack patient. I was also able to be a part of the trauma team and taking care of patients that were in life or death situations. When the ED doctor said that I needed to be a part of a critical care team (whether it be ICU, ED, or another part of critical care), I knew that I made the right decision and that I could see myself working in this setting.

N40010

Nursing of the Critically Ill Patient

Competencies:

• EKG interpretation
• Caring for the critically ill patient
• Caring for patients on mechanical ventilation
• Performing mouth care
• Maintenance of multiple IV drips
• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Arterial Line Management
• Passing medication through NG/OG/PEG tube

EBP: Nursing Process Paper - Part 1 (view), Nursing Process Paper - Part 2 (view)

Patient Teaching: It was hard to do any teachings with my patients due to them being on a mechanical ventilator and being sedated. I was able to teach family members about patient's being on the ventilator and the different things associated with the ventilator (sedation, mouth care, suctioning, etc). I was also able to teach family members about their family member's illness/diagnosis.

Personal Reflection: This has been a very different class than what I am used to. It has been very challenging. I have had difficulty transitioning into taking care of patients who are critically ill and who are on mechanical ventilation. It has helped me build my confidence in my skills being a nurse. I feel more comfortable working with IV’s and different IV drips and monitoring IVs. I also feel more comfortable assessing critically ill patients and patients who are on mechanical ventilation.

N40020

Community Health Nursing

Competencies:

• Understanding what public health is
• Understanding epidemiology/epidemiologic triad
• Applying nursing process to a community
• Understanding needs of a community
• Understanding underserved populations
• Understanding Health Disparities
• Community Assessment
• Population teaching
• Clinical Experiences:
• Home care
• County Health Department
• City Health Department
• Stat Care
• County Jail
• Gabriel Cancer Center
• Community Clinic

EBP: Community Assessment (view)

Patient Teaching: Teaching 3^rd graders on proper oral health

Personal Reflection: I have actually really enjoyed this semester. I didn’t think I would enjoy this clinical rotation as much as I have. I could see myself being a community health nurse. I enjoyed learning about the different services in the community. I really enjoyed my experience at the county jail and definitely could see myself working there. I could also see myself working in the community clinic or in the Gabriel Cancer Center in their research field.