When you work as a nurse in an actual clinical setting, you may come across various surprising situations.At times like that, as a nurse, your head and body will be full rotation.
For example, a patient who is hospitalized with lower gastrointestinal bleeding (bleeding from the lower part of the body such as the large intestine) while working the night shift.When I visited the patient to observe his condition at night, there was a large amount of melena (blood coming out of his buttocks), and even the sheets were bright red.
Here, think and judge quickly with your own head.The patient's state of consciousness, complexion, changes in blood pressure and pulse, the nature and amount of melena, reports to the attending physician, reports to the nurses around him and whether or not they have requested support, etc.
We perceive the patient's condition in the form of information, sort out what is necessary and what is not necessary, and determine the order of priority.At the same time, we move to action.
By learning and mastering the basics of being a nurse while in college, you will be able to respond to such situations.
Learning in the Department of Nursing is not just about studying with textbooks and computers spread out on your desk.Through practical classes such as exercises and practical training, students learn the skills, judgments, and ways of thinking as nurses.
Nightingale wrote in her book, "We need practice, not knowledge. We 'know' something by 'doing' it. A famous Italian proverb says: 'People know by what they do,' and nothing more than what they do," she said, explaining how practice is so important in learning nursing.
Some of you may be thinking, "Maybe I can't do it."But that's okay.Faculty members of the Department of Nursing are real nurses who have practiced nursing in hospitals, facilities, and at home.By learning real nursing carefully over 4 years, you will acquire the basics of nursing.
Due to the impact of the new corona, the importance of medical workers has been emphasized in the past few months.I hope that there will be an increase in the number of nurses who can apply the basic nursing skills they have acquired in actual nursing situations and can respond to various surprising situations.
[References]
Florence Nightingale(1872-1900). Selected addresses of Florence Nightingale : addresses to probationers and nurses of the Nightingale School at St. Thomas's Hospital,
(Florence Nightingale. Masu Yumaki, Katsuko Kodama, Tanko Usui, Mieko Toriumi, Yoshihiko Kominami (ed.) (1977). New translation, Nightingale's Letters: Letters to Nurses and Apprentices, Gendaisha Hakuho Selected Books)
