CLINICAL SITE

Course:

NURS 661 Family Primary Care of Adults and Older Adults

Location:

Future Care Irvington

22 South Athol Avenue Baltimore,
MD 21229
Phone number: (410) 947-3052

Name of preceptor: Janette Mitchelle

Clinical Hours required: 120 hours
Clinical Hours completed: 120 hours
Type of Experience: Experience gained from this course was built upon the previous
assessment course which emphasized building a therapeutic relationship with the
clients/patients. In Nursing 660, I continued to learn skills to build an effective
relationship to structure interviews or history taking, especially as I learned to establish
different approaches to distinguish between chief complaints (CC), history of present
illness (HPI), and past medical history (PMH). Understanding the present illness or
problem requires a step-by-step evaluation of the circumstances which surrounds the
primary reason for the patients visit. Understanding why a particular issue is happening
to a particular client at a particular time, in other words learning to explore personal,
social, and economic experiences, religious, cultural, family history, and genetic history
etc. gave me a perspective of why somethings happens to a particular clients and not the
other. This course also emphasized approaches to effectively diagnose a client by
establishing differential diagnosis, addressing sensitive issues including alcohol, domestic
violence, spirituality, and sexuality were also important components during this clinical
experience.