Extra Blog 3

The mentorship is going successfully. I meet with me mentor, Oralia Aragon, every Tuesday from 2-6 and do a number of things. So when I arrive to do my mentorship, I ask Oralia if there is anything to do today. In this profession it's a joke because it is almost rare when there isn't something to do. On an average day we go and visit patients and diagnose and inform the patient. I take notes on how to great the patient and how to inform them as well as prescribing them for proper medication. Recently we seen a patient that had a heart attack and didn't know a word of English and was partially deaf and hard of vision. When asked if he had any family, he went on tangents of old stories of how he came to America from Cuba. As his attention began to come together, he told us we he had no family and his house maid is an "untruthful woman" and that she was the reason he was there, that she had poisoned his drinking water. The man was not deranged but confused and in a hospital you need to be ready for confusion, I've learned, and ready with an answer