Exit Interview

Content:

1. What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?

What is your EQ?

How can a Psychiatric Technician best provide quality care to a Psychiatric Patient?

What is your first answer?

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by assuring that the patient is at the center of care.

What is your second answer?

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by being competent in the field of nursing and pathophysiology.

What is your third answer?

One of the best ways to ensure quality patient care is by ensuring that your team and patients are safe

What is your best answer?Why?

The best answer to my essential question would be to assure that the patient is at the center of care at all times. Providing this amount of attention to a patient is crucial because, it is apart of the patient's recovery process. The ways for one to ensure patient centeredness is by properly assessing the patient, forming an Individualized Treatment Plan (ITP) and by administering patient specific medication  based on diagnosis. Although patient centered care is currently applied in the medical field many medical facilities don’t operate the way that they should. According to the Psychiatric Medical Board there should be 15 patients for every nurse, but due to the amount of patients that these facilities are receiving there isn't enough nurses to fill the voids in their care. Not having a sufficient amount of nurses on the floor is a danger to the patients and the staff. It could potentially mean the difference between life or death to anyone in the facility.

2. What process did you take to arrive at this answer?

Through my whole experience of gathering research and conducting several interviews I was then able to provide three important answers that directly answer my essential question. After further analyzing my research I was able to conclude that the best answer to my essential question would be to assure that the patient is at the center of care at all times.

3. What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?

The main problem that i did face throughout my senior project was constantly running out of research ideas and sources. I was able to overcome the dilemma by digging further into my topic by basically branching off different ideas that related to my question or answer.

4. What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?

The two most significant sources that I used are fairly difficult to determine because a big part of my research involved the first and last interview that I had with my mentor because, I was able to use the info that I gathered from the interviews to explore more into my topic. My second most important source was the Basic Nursing Rosdahl textbook that we used in the PT class because, it talked about all of the different ways of how to correctly provide patient care.