In my final semester as a third year Bachelor of Nursing student, I undertook my practicum placement in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). During this time I cared for Alex, a 10 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy, who presented to the ICU unit in with acute respiratory failure. This paper takes the form of a clinical inquiry in which I describe my experience of caring for Alex, his illness journey and his parents' experience of having a critically ill child. I describe Alex's presentation and treatment within the hospital, the focussing on nursing and medical interventions and my evolving therapeutic relationship with Alex's parents. Because Alex cannot communicate verbally, I obtained consent to write this inquiry paper from Alex's parents, Michael and Emma, who were also happy to discuss their experience as Alex's parents. This clinical inquiry is person-focussed and in its original form was the final piece of assessment for my nursing degree.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Movric2005
%A Movric, David
%D 2005
%J Contemp Nurse
%K Cerebral Palsy; Child; Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; Humans; Male; Nurse-Patient Relations; Parents; Preceptorship; Professional-Family Respiratory Insufficiency; Resuscitation Orders; Tasmania
%N 2
%P 290--296
%R 10.5555/conu.2005.20.2.290
%T Caring for Alex: a clinical inquiry.
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.5555/conu.2005.20.2.290
%V 20
%X In my final semester as a third year Bachelor of Nursing student, I undertook my practicum placement in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). During this time I cared for Alex, a 10 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy, who presented to the ICU unit in with acute respiratory failure. This paper takes the form of a clinical inquiry in which I describe my experience of caring for Alex, his illness journey and his parents' experience of having a critically ill child. I describe Alex's presentation and treatment within the hospital, the focussing on nursing and medical interventions and my evolving therapeutic relationship with Alex's parents. Because Alex cannot communicate verbally, I obtained consent to write this inquiry paper from Alex's parents, Michael and Emma, who were also happy to discuss their experience as Alex's parents. This clinical inquiry is person-focussed and in its original form was the final piece of assessment for my nursing degree.
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abstract = {In my final semester as a third year Bachelor of Nursing student, I undertook my practicum placement in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). During this time I cared for Alex, a 10 year old boy with Cerebral Palsy, who presented to the ICU unit in with acute respiratory failure. This paper takes the form of a clinical inquiry in which I describe my experience of caring for Alex, his illness journey and his parents' experience of having a critically ill child. I describe Alex's presentation and treatment within the hospital, the focussing on nursing and medical interventions and my evolving therapeutic relationship with Alex's parents. Because Alex cannot communicate verbally, I obtained consent to write this inquiry paper from Alex's parents, Michael and Emma, who were also happy to discuss their experience as Alex's parents. This clinical inquiry is person-focussed and in its original form was the final piece of assessment for my nursing degree.},
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title = {Caring for Alex: a clinical inquiry.},
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