Thursday, October 1, 2009
First Day of Clinicals
Today was our first day of clinicals and boy did I enjoy it. It wasn't too stressfula and all of the staff at the nursing home were friendly and oh so helpful. I've worked in a nursing home before as an aid, but this rotation, I think, will really bring on a new challange. The technical parts I can handle and learn, but the new part will be trying to care for the whole person. As an aid, I really didn't have time to try to meet any but the physical needs of the residents. This may eventually be the case again in nursing, but while I only have on patient I have the oppurtunity to meed those other needs. As sorry as this sounds, I had never gotten into the habbit, or even thought of, praying for my patients. I certainly did my best to care for the patients while I worked, but I didn't get involved spiritually. My tendency in clinicals will be to really get going with the physical aspects of care and I forget other parts of care. I'm guessing I'll need to slow myself down and sometimes focus specifically on non-physical needs. For a start, I intend to get in the habit of praying for my patients everyday. We'll see how that goes.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder that as Christian nurses we should be praying for our patients on a regular basis. I have a feeling that when I start working as a nurse that I'm going to get in a similar routine as you did where I will forget about the spiritual aspect of my patients and only focus on the physical aspects. I have a tendency when I get stressed out to focus on those areas that I think are truly critical. In nursing, the physical aspects almost always come before spiritual aspects. I will need to constantly remind myself that part of giving holistic care is looking after the spiritual needs of my patients as well as physical needs.
I want to get in the habit of praying for my patients every day as well. I completely forgot about it when I was at clinicals this week because I was a little stressed out, but I want to start even now to pray for my patients everyday so that I will be in the habit of it when I become a nurse in a couple years.
Thanks again for the reminder that, as Christian nurses, we can give a little bit extra in our care by praying for our patients and providing for their spiritual needs. This can help us stand out among the crowd and be a witness for Christ while we are on the job.
Kara and Paul! It is certainly not to late to start making prayer a habit! Keep blogging!
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