Blog Reflection

While volunteering at Kaiser Hospital i used critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity to complete all aspects of my capstone projects. While volunteering at the hospital we used critical thinking because while volunteering with nurses i have to think like a nurse as well and thats exactly what my mentor made me do while volunteering with her. Communication is a very important part of nursing especially in the recovery room because every time you assist a patient it is required to work as a team. With team work you need to learn how to communicate with coworkers to make sure everything goes smoothly with the patient and they are sent home happy. While assisting patients collaboration is a key aspect as well. As a nurse you need to know how to collab with coworkers and once again work with your team and the patients as well. In the career of nursing there really isn't any creativity at all but if something ever goes wrong and you need to think of an other way to assist the patient creativity can come in handy.

Through out my volunteering at Kaiser i've gained experience personally, socially, and intellectually. From volunteering and talking with my mentor i personally realized that this is my career of chose for my future because i have a love for the nursing career now. I've also realized that nursing also is very social. If you are not social or have any intellect at all with your team and coworkers you will not be able to work smoothly. Nursing is all about working with the hospital staff.

While volunteering i did face one problem. My mentor was assisting and caring for a patient right after her hip replacement and they just simply could not raise her body temperature. This is not good because for one the patient is not comfortable and two there could be something wrong because she just came out of surgery. After a lot of warm blankets and socks the patients body temperature finally increase and the patient was fine. Everyone was relieved that it was only a minor encounter that thy could fix pretty fast.