reflect on what has happened...

Greetings,

The last couple of days have been an interesting, I've learned new things everyday. Now it only takes practice and experience. We have an clinical assessment coming up before our mid-semester break. Basically it is like the CPR assessment but this time a new element is introduced. The Defibrillator or so called The Zoll. Hope you are aware that its the machine that shocks the heart. The Zoll shocks the heart with mass amounts of electricity, within chance it lets the heart regain a normal cardiac rhythm.

Although I'm pretty familiar with it now, there are still some techniques I would like to retouch and practice. Besides the fascinating fact that the we use Zoll's are real shocking machines, the uninteresting part is that once we say "Clear!" and shock the dummy it completely kills the joy out of it. No contraction of muscles occurs, no movement, no bounce like you see in the TV shows. Just a rubber dummy 'still' like a dummy. Well I'm over it, I still find it fun.

Overall I still feel incompetent to perform the task. Even though I'm familiar with it, I still have my nerves to overcome and my interpersonal communication with the patient that needs a huge improvement. End note.

I hope what I just mentioned was a good reflective entry, because one of my assessments consists with a Reflective Journal. I must share what I felt and what I got out of it. It's to exercise self-awareness and understand were I'm at.

I would also like to share my other experience in my Law and Ethics tutorial. First things first we watched a documentary on a doctor, (I don't want to mention names) and a management nurse in a particular hospital. The doctor was suspected by this nurse that the doctor was causing unnecessary deaths. Because the doctor was classified as a surgeon, he/she thought with this title I gain power and could let everything slide with a click of a finger. Except for one nurse that had a Master in Bioethics, he/she was put to the test.

The nurse tried consulting the hospital directors and pleaded to have an audit done. No one would listen and failed to reason with the nurse. Consistently the nurse would take the right steps towards her suspicion of the doctor causing the unnecessary deaths. The nurse coughed up some much that it effected her life, job and goals. Until at one point the nurse leaked out information to a journalism and did some research about this doctor. The journalism found hard evidence that the doctor had already been doing the same activities in another country.

After the nurse was notified, he/she thought of making it public but this would mean that it would cost his/her job and many other aspects of his/her life like reputation. They say she has been a revolutionary to the health care system and that It would cost the government millions of dollars to fix this downfall in the quality of patient care. Unlikely to happen.
In the end he/she whistle-blowed (complain and report) on this the doctor that caused so much pain for families and the patients. Now is in the process of being charged of murder.

When the film finished, I was very angry and scared, a mixed feeling. Angry because there are people out there doing it just for the money and the title, also that they oversee there job title, which is to help people not intentionally let them feel pain. Scared because If i was faced with that particular situation, would I be able to sacrifice that much to change a small thing (Maybe even big for that mater). To actually overcome the titles and labels that makes us think that we have more power than the other person and to a make stand, politically, legally and of course ethically.

My lecturer for Law and Ethics which is also my tutorial teacher is an inspiration! She really knows what's out there and what's required. Her precise perspective that nurses, doctors, surgeons, paramedics and all the types of health care workers (even cleaners) are treated equally by opinion and of course decisions. It's like we were suppose to be in a big happy family. But its like were vultures for power and money. In the future I know I'll face great challenges in this particular environment and now I know I can make a stand or opinion with all appropriateness. I don't want to be an vulture.


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