2 days agoIngrid Gamboa
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COLLAPSE
Getting Started with Pediatrics
My name is Ingrid Gamboa. I was born in Mexico City, but I grew up in El Paso, Texas. I have been a nurse for six years. I have been working in the Operating Room my entire nursing career. I used
to work at a level one facility in a county hospital, and one of the biggest challenges was to take care of pediatrics level 1 emergency. I love children; I have two of my own. I believe having children makes
me more emotionally susceptible to caring for pediatric patients. It is difficult to say, but I love children so much that it makes it harder to take care of them. Watching children suffer breaks my heart, which
is the main challenge I have in this class. I believe we have the option of how we embrace our weaknesses and what successful outcomes we bring from them. I love children so much that I am eager to learn
more about their health and how I can help them have a healthy life or overcome illness. Patient care should be proactive, strategic, and creative to assess, provide advice and manage their disease. (Nagel
, 2019).
Goals;
Become comfortable performing a newborn through adolescence physical examination.
Identify normal vs. abnormal growth in children.
Be able to guide moms regarding the care of their children.
Learn how to help my patients transitioned from pediatric care to adult care to adequately address their needs based on their age since it is a challenge for several patients. (Lestishock et al., 2018).
Always provide care in the best interest of the child as mandated by law. Be able to successfully negotiate care for the child in the child’s best interest, aside from differences with parents, and provide joint care. (Birchley et al., 2017)
Objectives:
Assess, monitor, and diagnose patients at a professional PNP level by the end of this clinical rotation.
Identified and prescribed the correct medication and dosages under the supervision of my preceptor for patient’s diseases at the end of this clinical rotation.
Accurately performed a head-to-toe physical examination on newborns to adolescence according to my preceptor standards by the end of this clinical rotation.
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References
Birchley, G., Gooberman-Hill, R., Deans, Z., Fraser, J., & Huxtable, R. (2017). ‘best interests’ in paediatric intensive care: An empirical ethics study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 102(10), 930–935.
https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2016-312076
Lestishock, L., Daley, A., & White, P. (2018). Pediatric nurse practitioners’ perspectives on health care transition from pediatric to adult care. Journal of Pediatric Health Care, 32(3), 263–272.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2017.11.005
Nagel, M. (2019). Challenges in providing complex paediatric care in rural communities. Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 9(2), E1–E2. https://doi.org/10.1353/nib.2019.0030
