REFLECTION OF CAREER IN PICU OR LABOR AND DELIVERY Essays

REFLECTION OF CAREER IN PICU OR LABOR AND DELIVERY Yesenia Rodriguez May 12, 2016 South University Reflection of Career in PICU or Labor and Delivery What have you learned about your career that you did not know before? What I learned was you need to have a year experience working in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. In the PICU, you learned new techniques every other day with your patients, to make it easier on your and the patients. I also learned that in the labor and delivery, you have to keep an eye on you patient, to make sure that the baby and the mother heart rate do not become bradycardia. That can cost problem at the time of delivery. I also thought that you need a year experience to work on the labor and delivery, but you don't, you had to been just graduated from college with a bachelor degree in nursing. Has this experience prepared you for your prospective career in any way? How? With this experience prepared me to realize that I need to think hard about the departments I want to work in. Especially in PICU, reason is when losing a patient who is a child, can make you think about your own at that time or for months. It's also going to be hard on my daughters because of the hours, the days and the holidays that I will be working. I have explained it to my oldest daughters that understand. What question have emerged from your observation, interviews, or findings, about your career? I emerged my observation with the nurses in the labor and delivery on the side of the main desk, they were talking and saying another Mexican trying to work in this wing of the hospital. I notice how Nurse Renee face turns red from embarrassment while speaking to me. Nurse Renee was friendly and helpful during the interview, but much helpful when she notices that I overheard the conversation. She made sure that I find all the information I need for my interview.