Transition to Professional Nursing

Transition to Professional Nursing
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TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Reflection about the incident based on standards............................................................................2
Description...................................................................................................................................2
Feelings........................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation....................................................................................................................................3
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion and action plan..........................................................................................................5
References........................................................................................................................................6

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TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING
Introduction
The current assignment works on reflecting my experience as a nurse and the ways it
violated the NSQHS standards of health. Here I plan to describe two incidents that worked on
clearing my understanding about the importance of abiding by NSQHS standards and the ways
professional outcome can be improved for better health.
Reflection about the incident based on standards
Description
During the course of my shift I noticed that the senior nurse examining wound of a
patient without washing her hands. As opined by Cruz and Bashtawi (2016), wound examination
is a critical scenario and must be accompanied with immense care. In similar regards I
additionally feel that the senior nurse atleast could have made the use of gloves while examining
the patient (Smiddy, O'Connell & Creedon, 2015). On similar incident I noticed my colleague
administering wrong dosage of morphine instead of insulin to an insulin resistant patient. The
first mistake done by the nurse in second scenario was that she did not check the contents of
medicine and proceeded to administer the dose of insulin, which was actually morphine
(Lorberbaum et al. 2015). I feel that was not right on her part. Fortunately, things did not
degrade; however, being a nurse one should not take chances
Feelings
I felt apprehensive about the thought of confronting her; being a senior nurse I did
understand that she knows better than me and that made me feel uncomfortable. I thought how
she could miss out the importance of washing hands before examining the wound. As stated by
Ritchie et al. (2018), nurses are often known to break the chain of infection in isolation by