Part 1:
The Story of Why you Need to Research this Topic
Can job's skills really play a big impact in your job? Will it leave a positive impact on the patient that comes?
Working at the urgent care in Braselton. I learned and saw many things that changed my mind. The things that I thought wouldn't be important became very important. Your actions and words should line up together, and most of the time patients will judge you from your positive or negative actions. When I was working, I saw that; working with kids, you have to get close to them and make them trust you before you draw their blood or take any type of test on them. You also have to double check what they really need because one small mistake can be a big complaint for you. I really learned that small things really matter. I always thought that being a nurse was such an easy job; however, it's not. Action, words, thinking skills, and other stuff really builds up. You need skills in order to take care of these patients the right way. Small things like washing your hands after every room, closing the door after you leave, knocking softly on the door; really start to matter in any career in the medical field.
Your actions and behavior affects your patients, if you were rude and harsh to your patient; they will come back as a rude and harsh patient; making your job harder. There was this one nurse that was being kind of harsh to a patient that came by for a check up, and they came back the next time and got the same girl; they were giving her the same action she gave them.
Part 2:
What you know, assume, and need to know
First of all, there are so many things that I assume about a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. I used to think all the stereotypes people say were true. How all NNP are very compassionate with their patients; which is not always true! Although being compassionate is part of a skill of their job, it’s not always true. Some NNP are very burnout or just no longer have the energy to express compassion toward patients. Another stereotype is how there are more women as a NNP than males; and how women are more “settled” to be NNP than males. This is however not true. All genders are capable of doing the same thing; however there are just more women working in these fields than male.
Things That I know about Neonatal Nurse Practitioners are the practice environment and the schedules. A lot of NNP work in hospital settings and primarily in the infant care units that are ranked; there's 3 care units. NNP works a lot, they care for about 13 infants/patients per day and they prefer to work day shifts or 24-hour shifts. This is my opinion; but I feel like a lot of NNP want to work a day shift or a 24-hour shift because they wanna make sure that all their patients are taken care of. This is all the information that I know about NNP.
Things that I wanna know about NNP is the unit of care; although I know about the unit of care, I want to know a little bit more about each unit itself. Another thing I also want to know is, can you become a NNP through online school? I feel like this is an obvious question, however I know a lot of medical fields require experience through labs and working. So is there a way you can bypass all of those.
Part 3:
Reflection on your research process and Review of the Literature
The actual story of the hunting for my information as I test my knowledge, assumptions, or even conjectures by researching my topic thoroughly. There was a lot of difficulty with my topic, I often didn’t find the source I wanted or I just didn't get enough information. It was really hard to find the right information when it came to questions I wanted to be answered. I felt like a lot of information wasn’t biased and came from a good source that was very mutual for both sides. However some information was kind of biased. I felt like some of my information was getting affected and wasn’t accurate enough.
Which made my research somewhat biased toward the topic. This means my research might not have been the greatest information but I wouldn’t say it's necessarily bad to read. I just felt like the information I have given is still very useful. Just some information could’ve been more researched rather than rushed through. If I had more time now, I would probably research more information on the section I feel like it’s biased. I want it to be less biased and more precision and accurate.
Part 4:
Information
A lot of things I do at my urgent care is my everyday thing. First thing I do when I get there is clean all the open rooms, and stock them up with supplies. Than I would follow the nurses or the NP around when there is any interesting patients that comes in.
On the weekend I stock up the stock room with new supplies that are located in the boxes.
Conclusion
My conclusion
Neonatal Nurse Practitioner has always been my biggest dream and profession. I research and did this whole project on this career. I was so excited and I really thought I had my hands on my heart for this career. I think that this career is very beneficial and I think people can push themselves to achieve this programs and everything.
However, lately things has been going on in my life. I realize that although I love healthcare and I have been putting my whole heart and efforts. I feel like I've mentally draining myself out. A little too much, that I don't think I'm fully capable of pushing myself. As of right now, I think I'll slowly work myself up.
I'm going to work on getting my RN degree or getting my Medical Assistance Certificated. I'll slowly go up, if I'm ready too. I also love this program, it really made me learn a lot of things about myself. What I love and I even learn my weakness. I think my weakness is not thinking im capable of doing somethings. However, thank you to Mrs. Killingsworth for letting me into this program. I had an amazing time!