Boundaries and Barriers
by
Rosanne Smallcanyon
For something that is beneficial to me and to many others around me, is a place where I work. I think it's something that could be comparable to a cell. Where a cell consumes water so it can grow and have enough energy to work hard to survive in certain environments it encounters. So in order to help myself and my job grow and survive in my environment is my job. I would have to get more education and continue to flourish and become a nurse. I am a Patient Care Technician. The brilliant world of medicine and learning about cells in biology is incredible, which makes me want to find out more and understand how life cannot function without the microscopic cell.
My job as a PCT has its barriers and boundaries that influence my life as a huge perception. The amazing performance of knowing if my patients are healthy is taking their vital signs and considerate the ranges of high blood pressures and low blood pressures. Then also taking glucometer checks to patients who are diabetic or to patients who are taking specific medication where we have to monitor their blood sugar and keeping it under control. Another routine is, knowing the difference of a regular EKG reading and a Critical reading.
The boundaries of my title stops at giving medications, starting IV's, doing dressing changes on wounds or surgical sites on patients and identify the symptoms of illnesses. The limitation of my boundaries doesn't stop my job as not being very important. My title as a PCT holds my unit together through communicating among my nurses with meaningful results and supporting them with procedures when I am required to. So without my job as a PCT I think my unit would not be able to function properly and without my job I wouldn't be able to grow and expand.