Fifth Obso

For my fifth observation I went to the doctor with my dad. Although it was not in the emergency room scene that I am really interested in, I thought it would be a good idea to get another outlook on different types of nurses. Now I have experienced both E.R. nurses and ones in the doctors office.
Since his appointment was at 9am, we left the house a quarter to and arrived five minutes early. When we walked in, he immediately signed in and we waited for the front desk to call his name. Standard procedure was to fill out basic forms. I asked the women at the front desk why it was necessary to fill out the same for and she bluntly told me it was policy to fill one out every appointment. Once he filled out all of the information we waited another ten to fifteen minutes before a nurse came through the door with a clipboard. She called us in and we walked into the hallway. To the left was the other side of the front desk and to the right was a hallway. She led my dad to the scale to be weighed; this is also standard procedure. I learned that although they ask every patient to step on the scale for a record of their weight, it can be refused by the patient and he nurse has no choice to move on with the rest of the exam. She also had my dads eye sight checked by him resighting the letters on a poster on the opposite side of the hall.
We were finally led to a small room where she checked his vitals. She checked his blood pressure, pulse, heart beat, eyes and nose and then told us that the doctor would be with us shortly.
After witnessing a nurse in a doctors office, although every office may be different, I know that I may want to go into more of the Emergency Room type of job. I like a more upbeat work rather than the standard procedure, preparing the patient for the doctor.