As an Emergency Room
Nurse, Assessment is definitely one of the most important aspects in our
department. Starting a day in a busy accident and emergency department,
assessment skills are definitely going to help me. Suggesting therefore that
the skills associated with assessment cannot be taught but are developed over
years of training and experience. However, it suggests that assessment skills
are less than satisfactory until the practitioner has had appropriate
experience in that particular area of assessment. With the help of
Roper-Logan-Tierney’s Model for assessment of the Activities of Living. It made
my work in ER very easy to identify and able to respond on a certain scenario
or case that goes into our department in order to provide patient proper treatment,
management and to give quality of service.
Mark Anthony M.
Roque, RN
Staff Nurse-
Emergency Room
Abu Dhabi-United Arab
Emirates
Our skills
being a Nurse to individualize our care plans for every patient are the most
attraction or our uniqueness in the field of Nursing as Nancy Roper signified
to us. Handling Renal Disease patients here in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a
great realization of how noble our work is. Patients of dialysis who should be
modified of life style, diet and everyday activities considering several
factors that might affect them and our dealings with them, physical,
psychological, socio-cultural, environmental. All implicates with an End Stage
Renal Disease but Knowing the Roper-Logan-Tierney Theory it bridged us to give
our everyday quality of care with utmost attention to the special needs of our
renal impaired patients so that they can fulfill their daily activities
independently.
Leila E.
Rodriguez, R.N.
Dialysis
Center, Saudi Arabia
Working as Emergency
Nurse doesn’t mean meeting only the immediate need of a patient then having the
thought weather the patient will be discharged or admitted. With ADL’s theory my attitude for work had
changed on how I view things. I realize saving life is not just about getting a
person out of danger; it’s about helping them get their life back and living it
to its fullest.
Everyday has been a
busy day here in ER. We are receiving mostly cases of minor trauma and 8 out of
10 patients are coming from remote place of Abu Dhabi. Some of them are camel
farmer that are usual victim of Camel-kick injury and others are laborers in
various oil company. Those type of patient travels minimum of 2 hours just to
get treatment and reassurance that they would be able to perform their ADL’s
despite their injury.
Before we discharged
patient we make sure that we educate them in a way they would understand. being
an overseas worker; we consider the absence of a family member as their support
system therefore our policy allows friends, employers and co- worker as a
significant others.
In case of minor
trauma let say lacerated wound. We put great emphasis on wound care. We don’t
discharged patient with the instruction of coming for daily dressing but rather
we teach them how to do it themselves. Or at least be assisted with the help
from their significant others. This support enables a patient who doesn’t have
the immediate access to a healthcare facility due to factors such as
geographical location or lack of time will still meet their own healthcare
needs like personal cleansing and dressing.
“When you care for a
person; you don’t just partly give, you give as much as possible.”
RonJayson Taplacido
Charge Nurse in
Emergency Department
Abu Dhabi, United Arab
Emirates
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