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Shaleasha Davis
IS291 : Initiative
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W eek 7
Initiative
Initiative: The power or opportunities to act or take charge before others do .
In today ’s society showing initiative on the job will demonstrate strong character skills. I work
for a retirement community and many of the people who reside are independent, but some of
them require minimum assistance. One day I was sitting at the nurse station when a family
member s tarted to complain about her mo ther not receiving a show er within the past week . I
asked her for her mother first and last name and room number , once I had this information I was
able to puller Mrs. Applebee, chart to verify in the nurse ’s notes why the showers were not
given. Mrs. Applebee had refused shower on her scheduled shower days. I offered to assist Mrs.
Applebee, with a showe r e ven though she was not my assigned residents to care for. I also asked
Mrs. Smith daughter if she would like to be notified when her mother refuse ’s a shower.
None less, one Monday, morning Mrs. Applebee daughter contacted my immediate supervisor to
explain the situation and how pleased she was with the quality of care her mother had received
by me . Too my surprise I received a bonus for showing initiative. Equally important I will
describe a nother incident on t he job which I gained merit for. Mr . Thomas had a medication
change that went from 2 600 mg mucinex tablets by mouth once daily to 1 1200mg muc inex
tablet by mouth onc e d aily. Mr. Thomas complain ed for 24 hours about his nasal passage being
dry. I took the initiative to check the medication package against the prescription order , and was abl e to find correct the error in Quick Mar. The n I explained to Mr. Thomas what the problem
was and I also, let him know it was corrected.
Equally important