Medical Student CLOS Internship Experience Stories

The beautiful Cloe also started her mental health rotation in September and gained valuable life experience.

"I didn’t know what to expect when starting my mental health rotation in September but I ended up loving it!

Here are a few things I was able to do during that rotation:

🍂 Do vital signs on patients.

🍂 perform mental status assessments on patients.

🍂 Administer medications (PO meds and IM injections), including pain meds.

🍂 Shadow a day of group therapy with patients which includes. (sleep hygiene, understanding medications, meditation, and stretching, etc.)

🍂 Shadowed an Emergency psych nurse and observed assessments to determine if admission to the unit was necessary.

🍂 Played games with the patients. (Pictionary, puzzles, card games, and coloring)

🍂 And most importantly.Got to know them and spend time with them.

My takeaway from this rotation is:

Mental health doesn’t discriminate.

Be kind- we have no idea what someone is going through and we have no idea the impact that our kindness can have on others.

Looking forward to what my next rotation will bring!"

Let's look forward to future wireless possibilities.-- Cloe


Attention:

Uniforms world has been giving away nurse uniforms! I have a chance to get a set.



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