During week 4 of clinical placement I was able to do 3 assessments on my resident. In the morning, the PSW assigned four residents for me to do morning care. Including my resident, I did all of them by myself and got them all to the dining hall in time for breakfast. While doing my resident’s care, I was talking to him and I went over what I had plan on doing for the day. I told him about the assessments I would like to have done with him. I asked him if he would give me consent to do these assessments and he gladly said that it is okay with him. I was happy that I was able to convince my resident to get up for breakfast, the PSW transferred him to his chair, and I helped him with his breakfast at the dining hall. After breakfast, the PSW did a …show more content…
I also did cardiovascular assessment and got his blood pressure done. I asked him if he would like to eat lunch at the dining hall but he refused. I ask him if he wanted to eat anything that I could get on the dining hall for him, he said that he is fine and does not want anything. I then told him I would see him after lunch and do some more assessments if possibly. I then went to helped at the hall for other resident’s meal. The time that I was about to visit him after lunch, I saw and observed him walking again with the PSW and the physiotherapist. I asked the PSW a question on how they would chart his walk, she said that the physiotherapist might measure the distance but what she would put in was “Resident walk a reasonable distance without shortness of breathe.” I went to see my resident, told him that I was able to observe him walk and I was happy for his progress. I asked him how many times he walks in a day, he said 3 times; breakfast, lunch and dinner. I did a pain assessment for his neck pain. I tried to do the gastrointestinal assessment but I did not get to finish it, I ran out of time. I also learn about charting, reading the nursing care plan and