Obviously, I am not allowed to tell my patient that he/she is my first or second or whatever patient because I don't want them to be nervous about being treated by an inexperienced student nurse. But they mean a lot to me though. Today is the day that I meet my second patient as a student nurse. You might ask me "What about your first patient?" Oh well... I didn't have much time to write about my first patient but I've thought about him/her a lot. (Excuse me for not providing enough information about my first patient. I want to be always vague about my patient to keep my patient's privacy.) Anyway, I just briefly finished with researching all the information that is related to my second patient. I think I always have hard time with nursing Dx part (diagnosis). This means that I always have hard time with picking a point to improve my patient's condition. Patients tend to have more than one diagnosis (Dx with concurrent Dx) so it makes me more confused because I don't know what to pick. Let's say that my patient was diagnosed with a chest pain and his concurrent Dx is dyspnea. I wouldn't know if I should improve the patient's chest pain or dyspnea. Because you can only pick one condition to work on one at each time. Well, I will see what I can do. I am bringing my NANDA-I book to the hospital today to decided later.
PS: So it was true that geriatric patients are prone to polypharmacy... As you can see in the picture above, the patient that I am working on is taking more than 10 different medicines. Sigh... I need to pay attention about of drug-drug interaction and adverse effects from it now. I am afraid a little bit.
