college writing

My theme is health and medicine. The topics I would like to talk about is the care if of people in nursing homes and organ transplants. I have not decided on what one i actually want to do but I am going more towards the topic of organ transplants. If I choose the topic the care of people in nursing homes I can relate to that a lot because I am a CNA and I have worked in many nursing homes. I could write about all the experiences I have had working as a CNA and how people in nursing homes get treated like and how their care is. But the topic of organ transplant I would talk about why it is a good thing and how it saves peoples lives because my uncle has had many kidney transplants from people doning their organs and this has actually saved his life. To find all my sources I will go on google to find information, my own experiences of being a CNA, and my family members all these things I can find my sources on.

The article “Autumn’s First Child” is about the very first man diagnosed with autism. His name is Donald he is 77 years old from Mississippi. The article says that within a decade there has been 500,000 children diagnosed with autism. These conditions affect more than 110 children today. This article was a very good article right from the beginning it caught my attention. I learned a lot from it and I would recommend it for others to read. It was a very moving article and I enjoyed it a lot.

The article “Itch” by Atul Gawande, is about a this lady who had a good life had a good career got married at a young age and had kids. Then eventually it went downhill for her she got a divorce and lost everything and she turned into drinking and doing drugs. She contracted aids and then finally realized she needed to get help she got help and got clean. Then eventually she began having this itch in her head that wouldn’t go away it was just her thinking she had an itch which led into her having psychological issues. I enjoyed this article a lot because it shows that no matter who you are bad things can happen to you and you can come out of it but sometimes you can’t and you end up in an even worse place like this lady did in the article after she did get help. This article also explains to you about what drugs can do to you even if you do stop doing them.

The article “The Way We Age” by Atul Gawande talks about how everyone ages. The Article talks about the tooth decay and then flows into the bone density lose and then finally talks about why we age. Which I feel the article and all out of place the author should of put why we age section first then talk about the examples such as the tooth decay and the bone density. But other than that I feel like the article was an interesting one and I enjoyed reading it.

I decided to write about my experience at the surgery center. When I was in high school I went to many places for my clinical and one of the places I went to was the surgery center. I observed many different types of surgeries and they were all so interesting. It was fun to actually be inside the operating room because I’ve seen it on TV but never had been in one. The surgeons let me observe everything that they would be doing and telling me what is going on and why this patient is having this type of surgeries.

How each surgeon works is that the nurses and anethosiologists bring the patient into the operationg room. From there they set the patient up they transfer the patient from the stretcher bed to the operating table.  Then they put a bunch of blankets on the patient because it is really cold. Then the surgeon comes in the surgeon then starts by washing his hands and one of the nurses helps him put on the sterile gloves and his mask and gown. While this is happening the anestegoloist starts giving the patient anesthia medication to put the patient to sleep. Then the surgeon gets all his tools and materials he is going to use for the surgery next time him. Once everything is set up the surgeon makes sure the patient is asleep and finally starts the surgery.

I had observed surgeries such as knee replacements, shoulder replacements, biopsies,  giving cortisone injections and even lasix surgery on the eye. I observed all of these types of surgeries and they all were so interesting to see. Each surgeon that came into the surgery center was specialized in performing different types of surgeries. Sp for every different surgery i would go with a different surgeon. One operation was on removing the tip of his middle finger on his right hand. This patient is a construction working and a granite counter top fall on his finger and damaged all the nerves that it had to be removed because it was all just dead tissue cells.  When the he performed the surgery he showed me all the layers of the tip of the finger all the way down to the bone.

Another surgery I observed was a biopsy which the surgeon had to take a big mass out of a lady’s left breast because she had a lump and they needed it to be sent out to see if she had breast cancer. This was the most interesting one i had seen because i saw what was inside of a breast and i got to see what they lumps actually look like that was removed. All these surgeries I had observed at the surgery center was very interesting and i had learned alot from being there. I got to see how the operating room works and how the surgeons perform their surgeries. The best part of it was all the surgeriesI had got to seen that I have never seen before in my life and probably will not get the chance again to see types of surgeries like that again.

House of Memory by Lisa Schamans

I really enjoyed this article. I liked how she ended the article but I do have to say it was a little all over the place. She jumped from one thing to the next a lot. But the way she ended it how she summed up everything at the end made me understand it more and put it all together and made me enjoy this article.

The article i read ” The Coming Medical Revolution” by Lucy Mckeon, was a very short article and i really didn’t enjoy reading it. It did have a main point about the article but it did not have enough supporting details to back it up. The writing style was alright could have been more in depth with the details. But other than that I really didn’t enjoy this article and I wouldn’t read this article again.

The article I read Personal Best by Atul Gawande, is about a surgeon talking about how he can’t get any better when doing surgeries. He says performing surgeries are not about hand and eye coordination it is about the physical and mind aspect which he is completely right. Once you have been a surgeon for a few years your body gets used to it because you do the same thing practically everyday. You can perform the same surgeries in one day or even in the same week. By doing the same routine everyday you realize that you cannot get any better at what you do. This is because you learn to do many different types of surgeries all the time which makes you know how to do them off the back of your head. By doing many different surgeries and learning how to do some, you realize you have to learn to be the best surgeon you can be.

Every since I was a child I have always wanted to become a Nurse. My aunt and my godmother are both nurses and I have always wanted to follow in there footsteps. When I entered high school i went into a shop called nurse/health assisting were I studied the basics of nursing. After the four years of studying this i got my CNA certification which is a certified nursing assistant. CNAs are the people who take care of the patients helping patients with things such as getting up in the morning and getting ready for bed mostly CNAs help the patients with the activities of daily living. My senior year of high school my teacher would send me out to many different medical places for my clinical and this is where I have expereinced many diffeent things i never seen before in my life and this made my decision final about becoming a nurse.

I have gone to many different places for clinical such as hospitals, nursing homes, I have gone out on Paramedic rides, wound centers, and rehabilitation centers. All of these places I have had many good experiences and have learned many new things and has given me many good memories of experiencing these things. But the one memory I will never forget is the time I was doing clinical at the hospital and I experience the very first time a patient has ever past away on me while giving care to the patient.

At the hospital patients come in and out they never stay for a long period of time unless they are in critical condition. But in the particular unit I was on is mostly for the sick elderly and many of them end up dying right in the hospital. One day when i was on clinical my friend I was with asked me to help her wash her patient with her. This patient was in his late 80s and was in bad condition. We started to wash the patient and the patient was breathing at the time but with his mouth open. The patient couldn’t really move very well so I had to roll him and move his body parts for him. As I turned the patient towards me my friend started to wash his backside and I noticed the patients mouth was closed and he was breathing. I told my friend and she said to put he back on his back once we did that he started to breathe again so I went and got the nurse. When the nurse came in she checked his vitals and told us he wasn’t going to last much longer. So we just left the patient be and stood at the end of the bed and saw the patient breathing then stop breathing then breathe again what this is called is Cheynes Strokes. What this is is when a patient stops breathing and then starts to breathe again trying to gasp for air and this happens when the patient is about to die. The patient started to do that and then his last breathe he gasped for air made this big gasping noise and his chest blew up so that we saw the chest lift up a little bit and then that was it the patient had pasted.

This was my first experience of a patient dying on me and it was a very sad thing. I didn’t know what to think or how to really feel but it was just a really weird kind of experience. This wasn’t my last experince of someone dying on me I have had two other patients pass on me and everytime that has happened to me it is a whole different type of experince. Each experience I have had of someone dying on me is all different and I felt different on each one but I have gotten used to the fact the this happens it is a way of life and everyone has to die in the end.