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Teaching Plan Reflection (Visit 3)Jill GarrettWere you prepared to answer your clients’ questions? Yes, I was prepared to answer my client’s questions. A lot of them had to do with her hypertension and I was glad we have learned about that in both Pathophysiology and Pharmacology, so I was able to answer both correctly and swiftly. She seemed pleased and seemed to understand everything I was saying, as I put all my terms into words she could understand, being a non-medical professional.What did you do to individualize your plan for your client? First I came up with three things I noticed could use a little fixing: her diet, her stress management, and her fall risk. While coming up with a nursing care/teaching plan for her, I thought about her home/knowledge specifically, so I could help her as much as possible. She took a liking to doing this, and I thought it went very smoothly.Did the interventions for the interfering factors for learning work? Explain.The interventions did work. I made her more self-aware with her diet related to hypertension and high cholesterol. She had said that recording her intake would be a good idea and that she would take to doing it! I also had told her a lot about stress, and a decent amount of information having to do with her blood pressure medications. She demonstrated to me that she understood what I was saying and she also understood what she needed to do, so that was satisfying. I also talked to her about the throw rug in the bathroom and explained why this puts her at fall risk, especially if she is using the bathroom at night, and she understood and will replace it with a non-stick rug, instead. Overall, the interventions did work and I understood this because of the evaluations.How do you feel about the teaching role of the nurse? I actually liked the teaching role of the nurse. It made me feel important. When I have a client, their safety is my concern. It is my job to make them the best possible person they can be health-wise, and I like that feeling. Although in the beginning it made me feel nervous, now that I have done it once, I feel great. The client really did look to me for information, expecting me to have the knowledge she needed to understand what she was to be doing. Has your opinion changed about the elderly? How? Explain. How will you use this knowledge about the elderly in your practice? I do not think my opinion has changed about the elderly. It is the same mindset I had walking into this project, and I think it is because I am currently a geriatric patient care technician. I love the elderly, and I am pointing in the direction of dealing with elderly people! Although I do not prefer to work in a nursing home, the clinical at Lexington gave me great exposure to learning about geriatric people. I am thinking about maybe becoming a medical-surgical nurse, or maybe even a hospice nurse. ................
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