From day one, Bertha has been very keen to learn. She has good communication skills with patients and staff, and she has maintained her professional values. She is proactive with her clinical skills.
Providing feedback is crucial for their professional development and growth. It is essential for guiding nursing students on their journey to becoming competent and compassionate healthcare professionals; thus, this feedback is given to Bertha
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I supervised her in providing care to the patients, such as preparing the medications, giving the medications via gastrostomy tube and taking observations. She was also able to observe and participate in a bladder washout and bladder scan. The steps were explained to her, along with the rationale, through an exchange of question and answers.
Registered Nurse. practice supervisors to Bertha.
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Bertha effectively communicates patient information to doctors and works well with a multi-disciplinary team, including family members.
Bertha communicates well with all the patients and with co-workers. She has developed good interpersonal relationships with all the staff.
She gives patients emotional support when they need care. She takes the initiative to help everyone in the ward and communicates any concerns.
Arrianne Simundo, Charge Nurse
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Bertha is willing to learn new skills in the ward.
Today, she had the opportunity to do cough assist on one of our patients. I showed her how to do it once and she was able to perform it to our patient on 2 occasions with supervision. She also keeps practicing the skills she has already learned, like taking physiological observations, giving medications via PEG tube, doing buried bumper checks, and preparing and calculating medications. She is not afraid to ask questions and is willing to take on tasks that are new to her, which is a good quality for becoming a future nurse.
Practice under supervision to deliver care to patients who don’t have the capacity to administer drugs and water through their percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (Peg care). Patient has no capacity. I still have to gain consent from the patient and explain what tasks I am going to perform to the patient before I can carry out the task. I administer medications and water through peg feed. Before administering medication, I need to wear my PPE, stop the feeding nutrition, and flush the tube with 100 ml of water to see if it is not blocked. I also need to connect food nutrition to the peg.
Also check the patient’s vital signs and news score.
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Bertha performed her best today in administering medication under my supervision.
We discussed the correct way to administer liquid medication through PEG.
Discussed the 5 R’s of drug administration.
Drug calculation is also important, and she performed it well.