Med Surg 5 3/27/15

Journal

     The MSU was very quiet and calm, except for some beeping of machines here and there. Most of the patients there were older adults who all had some sort of illness or injury. I mainly just observed my nurse. She made sure the patients were doing well, and she checked their vital signs and administered medicine. The equipment I observed was the vital sign machine. The nurse utilized the vital signs machine, and she also utilized her computer to input data.

     While in the MSU, I observed the nurse give medication and a bed bath. The health care professionals were very nice, and there were many of them on this floor. On the 7th floor, there were not that many. Two nurses worked together to give a patient a bed bath. They would talk to each other and ask each other if they needed help. I observed some safety procedures which included the fire extinguisher and the crash cart. The nurse would administer pain medicine to some patient who had a lot of pain. I had knowledge about what happened in the MSU because I had been to the 7th floor already. There was not really any new information that I learned because the nurses did the same thing as the nurses on the 7th floor. However, I learned from a patient that one of the doctors was on level 600 something on Candy Crush. I did not come into contact with any medical terminology; however, I came into contact with an abbreviation. The abbreviation was DOB which stands for Date of Birth. 

     The MSU visit went pretty well. It was not different than the 7th floor, but I still enjoyed observing. The patient they had to give a bed bath was not very cooperative. I learned that some patients will not cooperate with you, and sometimes you need patience. It is very important to make your patients as comfortable as possible in order for you to do what you need to do.