Nurse/health Assisting - the Ten Most Important Things I Learned

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Rylee Johnson May 2, 2018

The Ten Most Important Things I Learned

During my year and a half in Nurse/Health Assisting, I’ve learned many skills and lessons that I will carry not only throughout my career as a CNA, but throughout my life. The skills that I’ve learned during my Freshman and Sophomore year will help me give my patients the best care possible out in the workplace and the lessons I’ve learned will help me better myself. The hands-on skills that I feel are the most important are Handwashing, Bed making, Mouth and Denture Care, Transferring a Patient from Bed to Wheelchair, Vital Signs, Body Mechanics, and CPR. Some lessons that I’ve also learned is to not procrastinate and use good time management skills, prioritize assignments, and to be conscientious of what I’m doing. My year and a half in Nursing has taught me things that I couldn’t have learned anywhere else and I’m lucky that I’ve had this opportunity to do so.

One of the first skills I learned my freshman year of shop was handwashing. Handwashing in itself is the most important thing in the healthcare field. In the chain of infection, handwashing is the one of the easiest way of preventing the spread of infection from yourself to your patients. Handwashing is something that I, as a Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), will do multiple times a day. In everyday life, I use this hand washing technique because it removes more germs off of your hands which will help decrease the chance of becoming sick, especially during cold and flu season. This is one of the most important things I’ve learned because it’s important to the health of myself and my patients.

Bed making was the first skill that I learned that required a lot of steps. When I first learned this, I was overwhelmed by the amount of steps but I knew that the skills from that point forward would continue to get more complicated. Bed making is something I’ll also being doing very often at the workplace. Keeping the patient’s bed neat and wrinkle-free at all times is very important to the prevention of pressure ulcers. I make my bed at home the way I learned it in class to keep it fresh in my memory. Giving the patient an inviting place to sleep is vital to keeping the patient as happy and comfortable as possible.

Mouth and Denture Care are both skills that I will be doing daily at work. These two skills combined required me to be meticulous. When performing these skills, maintaining infection control is crucial in not spreading infection to other patients and co-workers. When first learning mouth care, I was scared that I wouldn’t be able to remember all the steps because I was worrying too much about infection control. But, once I practiced it multiple times, I felt very comfortable with the skill. The reason why this skill is in my top ten is not only because I’ll be doing it often at work, but because this is a really popular skill on the CNA test.

Transferring a patient from bed to wheelchair is a very important skill. When talking to some of the Juniors and Seniors, they said it’s something they do almost everyday but it’s different from the way we do it in shop. Patients for the most part are going to be dead-weight and they aren’t going to be able to do much to help during the transfer. In shop on the other hand, we are able to help out a lot more than a patient would even when we don’t try to. This skill requires me to not only be concerned about the health of my patient, but the health of myself. The competency mixes in the use of proper body mechanics and the competency itself into one. Now that I’ve mastered this competency, I feel confident that I’ll be able to perform it safely in the workplace.

Vital Signs are very important in the healthcare field. Vital Signs include temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure. These four things can identify a change in a patient’s health for good or for bad. Since I will be doing this a lot in the workplace, mastering this skill was super important.If I were to get a new patient on my assignment, I would have to get a baseline of their vitals to understand what is normal for him/her, keeping in mind that what is normal for one patient may not be normal for another. Understanding how to take vital signs accurately is a very important skill that will become very important in the workplace. Because of this, I feel as though vital signs are one of the most important things I learned.

The next skill I feel is very important to know is Body Mechanics. Body Mechanics help protect my body, particularly my back, from any sort of injury. Using correct body mechanics when doing anything from bending down to move something to transferring a patient is very important. Keeping myself and my patient safe is my number one priority and using correct body mechanics will help in doing so. Because of this, Body Mechanics is one of the most important