The end of my global health
experience has been great. I have really
enjoyed working with my peer as well as the Cleveland Health Department Staff
over the past two months. I feel that I
have successfully partnered with the community and the agency that I was
working with at the Thomas McCafferty Health Center. I learned so much just from the interactions I
had with the patients that came to the clinic on a daily basis.
Insights I have gained about the
role of a public health nurse as a result of this experience include learning
how different their roles are than a nurse working in the hospital. These nurses are required to deliver information
to patients over a short period of time with the hopes of the patient retaining
the information. As in the hospital,
most times the patients are in-patients, and will hear the same patient
information constantly during their stay.
I commend them for their efforts at educating a community on serious
health issues which are preventable during their work day. I have met my clinical goals which were set
in week one. I feel I have enhanced my
scope of nursing skills by focusing on a specific type of nursing and still applying
the same nursing concepts such as patient assessment, treatment and education. I have become more comfortable with finding
ways of relating to younger aged individuals in order to gain their trust and
allow them to communicate with me as part of their treatment.
There is nothing I would have
done differently from my clinical experience.
Everything that happened from my experience has made me more knowledgeable
and confident in my work. I followed the
rules, and succeeded in providing patient care with no mistakes, while learning
at the same time. These insights will
help me in the future as a nurse by providing me with helpful information in
which I could look back on whenever I am in the nursing field. I learned more than just about a STD during my
time at the health clinic, I learned how to become a better nurse.
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