Morgan
Catoe
April 2024
Morgan
Catoe
Charleston Southern University
Charleston
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SC
United States

 

 

 

Morgan went on to talk, do arts and crafts, and other activities with the patient for over an hour. The patient was easily more agreeable and chatty and did not want Morgan to leave.
Morgan had a clinical day where she was assigned a pediatric patient who ended up wanting to rest, so once the assessment and vital signs and change in medication was complete, there was not much going on. Another nurse asked if she would be willing to help with another patient, and Morgan happily said yes. She was able to administer several medications with a school aged child with a developmental delay, and a parent who was very much overprotective. Morgan read each of the 19 medications aloud, one by one, with the dosage, generic name, and trade name verbalized while explaining what some were for, while the parent mentally checked off each. Morgan's approach put the parent at ease. We were also warned that the child was "known" among the staff for not being easily approachable. The nurse stated that the child had not said a word since the previous day. Morgan still wanted to provide the best possible care and asked the child for name and date of birth. The patient seemed weary at first to reply, but Morgan made it into a guessing game to perform the check. She made jokes and calmly approached the child; the child spoke up and told her which meds to take. The patient then asked the faculty to leave because they were going to play. Morgan went on to talk, do arts and crafts, and other activities with the patient for over an hour. The patient was easily more agreeable and chatty and did not want Morgan to leave. Morgan demonstrated the value of not being "biased" by report from the staff, building rapport with both the parent and child.