ISTAN Reflective journal

Reflective ISTAN journal

1. Completed a head to toe assessment. Replaced nasal canula with a non-rebreather mask and monitored the patients O2 levels as the dropped. Planned on doing wound care on patient but he ended up coding because of a critical mistake we made as  a group. We ended up saving our patient in the end though. Documented all of our findings.

2.  I realize even more now, that team work and communication is very important. If had had paid more attention when Kelly asked me to check the insulin, I would have noticed that it was not in the correct syringe and we could have avoided all the chaos.  I feel we remained calm and worked well to in all the chaos.

3. I will make sure I don't miss or forget little things like assessing for allergy and checking our patient temp. W got half way through the simulation and realized we never had a temp for the patient. Also check and make sure our patient has an armband and allergy band.

4. I learned that you must always check your medication several times before administering it and making sure the patient has food near before administering insulin.  I also learned that communication is very important between team members and to communicate clearly with each other.

5. The three things I learned that I put into practice during simulation were med administration, knowledge of therapeutic diets, and CPR.