Chamberlain College of Nursing ( NR 501 ) for A+ nurses

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As a registered nurse working on a med-surgical unit I have encounter many situations that I felt underprepared and uncomfortable. One situation was a 23 year old young man admitting for severe abdo... minal pain, He was away on campus his senior year getting ready to graduate that year. He was having other symptoms but never really pay attention to them. He thought it was probably anxiety and studying and not eating properly. He was experiencing abdominal pain for few months, but the pain would come and go away until one day he couldn’t bare the pain anymore and called his parents to come to pick him up to take him to the hospital. When he got admitted the doctors ran many different test and blood work to find out what was going on with him. After several days the doctors diagnose him with colon cancer. The scan of his abdomen had shown widespread metastatic to different organs. The family wanted to do everything and decided to have surgery the next day while in surgery the doctors could not do anything because the cancer had metastases to his major organs. The surgeon had to sew him back up and told him he had only few months to live. I was his nurse that day when he return back to the room. I had to words to explain the look on this young man face and his family. I couldn’t hold my tears after the recovering nurse gave me report. I was so emotionally destroyed and heartbroken, frightening, and the experience was beyond my understanding. I wasn’t prepared to face this young man and his family. I was not prepared to handle something like that it was extremely upsetting. I didn’t know how to proceed the hurt, and I was feeling helplessness for him and his family. I am a mother and [Show More]

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