Module 4 Blog :)

Teaching done in my professional role as an Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, including teaching the new RN to the NICU, orienting them to the population of patients and helping her to understand my role as an APRN as it is collaborative in the NICU with theirs. I can do this by helping the RN and other team members to understand my rationals with orders for the baby. I also feel it important to teach through listening with respect to the RN's at the bedside and their ideas for care, so that a real understanding and professionalism can be achieved. I also have a responsibility to talk with the parents of these neonates in the NICU about their baby and what is going on. I want them to understand as much as they can my thoughts as I am taking care of the medical management of their baby they need to be involved in the process. I also want them to feel I care about them and their infant through my interactions.

There is no aspect of my health care provider that does not involve teaching, be it teaching to a resident, colleague, bedside RN, Respiratory Therapist, Dietitian, pharmacy, social worker or family member. In my teaching there is also learning for me from the above mentioned people. I believe in every aspect of teaching there is learning as well. We as health care providers need to be humble enough to take in the teaching of colleagues and give them credit for their willingness to share their knowledge. Also not be to authoritative in my teaching.