Reflective Journal: To be completed individually and turned into Mrs. Dukes the Thursday after your simulation rotation.

 

1.   Discuss 4 tasks you completed or tried to complete in simulation lab.

Suctioned trach, vital signs, changed sheets, and drew blood.

 

2.   What did you learn most about the situation(s) you encountered in simulation lab?

Assess your patient inside and out and don’t expect the chart to give you the whole story.

 

3.   What will you do differently during your next simulation experience?

Lift the gown all the way up. Communicate using SBAR better.

 

4.   While watching your peers’ simulation experience, what are 3 things you learned?

How to more efficiently connect EKG leads to a patient, how to communicate therapeutically, how to use the medication dispenser.

 

5.   What 3 things did you learn in the classroom (didactic) that you put into practice during your simulation experience?

Assessment, trach care, moving a patient, and documentation.