LEARNING
FEEDBACK DIARY
By
Mary
Julia An BSN 4E
FIRST WEEK: Who we are?
Caring for patient whom are critically
ill is both challenging and interesting job. It entails a lot for
responsibility, carefulness and struggles. This is how I view the work done in
the Intensive care unit. Before, I always had this fear being assigned
in the ICU because of such occurrence of medication error, negligence and
misconduct. Patients in the ICU are really sick and I fear that I might worsen
it. But now that I stepped into another level of my nursing career, I find it
very interesting and challenging to be assigned in the ICU. I’m very glad that
my clinical instructor is Sir Amer de Castro as the Nursing Service Director it
gives me more advantage and confidence to do my task. In our first week of
duty, we had a theme: WHO WE ARE. It
was more on knowing ourselves like using the strategy of SWOT analysis thereby
revealing what is within us. Our goal was to know our clinical instructor, our
colleagues and who we are. We were able to know and meet our colleagues by
knowing their name, hobbies, experiences and plans for the future. Most of us
have identical plans like pursuing the board exam, searching for jobs and
working abroad. It was very comforting for me to share whom am I and what are
my plans to the group. I specified that one my plans was to pursue my Master’s
degree and also to work abroad but I emphasized that I really want to work in
the ICU or the ER. In my duty in the ICU, I was then faced with so many
struggles. One of which is I still find it hard to adjust on my rotations. The
past weeks I was circulated at the OR and DR. In these areas, we seldom do
chartings and now I still adjusting on doing my nurses notes. Almost 3 months
of duties without nurses notes, I say! Secondly is I really find it very
crucial when I deal with the relatives of my patient. I somehow had this
conflict against the relative of my patient because after suctioning that
patient’s tongue protruded and the response of the relative was somehow
negative against me. I was like depressed for a day and disturbed by the
incident. But then after that incident, the relative approached me and told me that “ Mas Kampante ako pag ika ang nurse
kang mama ko.” I was really touched and my routines in the ICU went
smoother and organized. Recognition is really effective! By that moment, I was
relieved and my mood starts to be better unlike before. My goals for next week
is for my duty to be more organized, knowledgeable in all my medications,
improved therapeutic communication, familiarized with all equipment and improve my skill in doing such procedures.
May God be with me!
