26th September 2019 2:00pm-10:00pm

Today was my third day in aged care placement. I started at 2pm and finished at 10pm. Todays shift was quite different to last weeks, as the mornings seem very busy where as in the evening shifts it starts to get more quite around 8pm. In todays shift a difficulty that I ran into was getting a particular resident into bed who had dementia. I have never dealt with someone who has this disease so I found it a bit difficult by my self but all it took was time, walking and talking with her all the way to her room and reassuring her it was bedtime. After I put her into bed I felt good that I handled that situation by my self, it certainly gave me more confidence in dealing with the residence who suffer from such dementia.

Friday 20th 6:30am-3:00pm

Coming into my second day of aged care placement I was already so much more confident. Today I did my first meal feeding, I was nervous but completely fine after a few seconds. Today made me realise it takes a lot of patients and confidence in doing this job, both qualities I am still working on. Today I also took a residents blood pressure from an automatic blood pressure machine, which I had never previously used. I did not know exactly how it worked so I stepped back and asked my fellow student nurses to show me. They were happy to and it was very simple and straight away I took the residents blood pressure correctly.

19.09.2019 6:45am-3:00pm

Anne Marie Court Rest Home

Today I had my first clinical placement in aged care. I got introduced to 3 fellow student nurses from AUT who became my good friends through the day. We first got familiar with the staff and emergency exits and procedures at the facility. For me I was really nervous starting off in aged care, but as the day proceeded I got to know the history of the residents living there and really grew a liking to the elderly my first day was such a learning curve of emotions. I never thought working in aged care would be emotional but it is very sad when they have dementia or a physical impediment they might not use to have.

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