Modernism Project

Eudora Welty- A Worn Path

Welty, Eudora. "A Worn Path" Comp. Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Ph.D. and Douglas Fisher, Ph.D. Glencoe Literature. American Literature ed. Columbus: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2009. 888-896. Print.

Journal #31 Job Shadowing Experience

Yesterday, I had a really good experience job shadowing in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit at Memorial Hospital. The lady that I job shadowed was an  intensive care RN. She was a very nice lady and she was really  good about answering all of the questions that I had. At times, Trisha sent me off with other nurses so that I could see that other cool things while my lady was logging charts on the computer. She was really goo about having me and explaining everything that she sees everyday. I would say that she was really good at having someone job shadowing because she was good about explaining things before i had a chance to ask her any questions. In the surgical intensive care unit, there were many different types of patients. Some of the patients were in there because they were trauma patients. Memorial and St. Johns switch off every year on who is going to have the trauma center, and this year it is Memorial. They had all of the trauma patients from Sangamon County. In the unit that I shadowed in, there were many people that had been involved in a car accident. These people were in such bad shape that they had to be placed in the intensive care unit because they needed more attention from the nurses and physicians. Even the patients were really nice to me. They were all in really poor shape, but it was good to see their faces light up because a young girl showed up in their room. I am sure that the patients probably get tired of having the same nurses in their rooms everyday, so it was exciting to them to have me in their rooms. My nurse had two patients that were in the ICU. The two patients were all really nice and they were all happy to have me in their rooms.

I do think that the position that I shadowed is a possibility for my future career. I liked the fact that these nurses were not seeing the same things everyday. They were all seeing different patients and all of the patients had problems that are totally different. I think that I like the adventurous nature behind the job was really good.