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401004 Professional Practice Experience

   

Added on  2020-02-24

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Running head: REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION SESSIONReflective analysis of medication administration sessionName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note

REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION SESSION1The following assignment is a reflective essay of my experience during the medicationpractice session using Gibbs reflective cycle (Cumbria.ac.uk, 2017).Description of the event: This was a practice session during the CPU at (workplace) and we were given three routeof drug administration: oral administration, subcutaneous injection, and Intramuscular injection.I was aware of the rules and steps of oral drug administration mentioned in Australian nursingcore practice skills (Anmf.org.au, 2017). Main steps include, washing hands before attendingpatient, checking Medical Record Number (MRN) number, documenting patient’s records beforeand after providing medication and check the detail like time and date, expiry details, dosage ofthe medicine (Dressman & Reppas, 2016). I followed all these steps and took the tablets in thebottle cap before putting the medicine in medication cup. However, I missed two steps: washinghand after medication and wiping the bottle mouth before putting the cap back. Natalie chose theintramuscular route for drug administration and she made no mistakes according to myevaluation. However, Sean injected medicines through sub-cutaneous route and he missed on somany steps of actual process (Dougherty & Lister, 2015). He did not washed his hands afterentering the ward and started to assemble the injection essentials (Orsini & Divers, 2012). Feeling:The feeling of this session encouraged me a lot. I gained my confidence to handle a patienthowever missing on few steps made me dis-satisfied. Watching Sean injecting medicine throughsub-cutaneous route was little embarrassing as he missed out an important step of washinghands. Whereas Natalie’s dedication empowered me to focus on my learnings and procedures infuture. Her way to treat a patient and administrating drug intramuscularly was inspiring.

REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS OF MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION SESSION2Evaluation:After completion of the practice session, I felt little disappointed. One major limitation ofthis experience was failing to comply with the core values and steps of drug administration thatcould have harmed the patient. However, the positive aspect was, it was only a practice sessionand I had opportunities to evaluate my faults. Analysis:After this medication administration procedure, I discovered my compliance level to theactual nursing oral drug administration aspects. The core practice skills that need to be followedby every nurse, I was able to remember and complied with those steps. This session made mequite confident about the forthcoming Objective Structured Clinical Assessment (OSCA), as Idid not missed out any important steps during the practice. Conclusion:I am able to figure out my drawbacks and areas where I need to focus more before theOSCA exam. I should have spent more time of my practice sessions to focus on medicationadministration skills that would have helped me to focus in that scenario. I should have focusedon the core skills of nursing to be confident during the session. Action plan:In future, to deal with such situation I am going to focus more on the core practice skillsand will spend more hours to practice medication administration. To enact those skills I will betrying to attend few more practice sessions with virtual patients and will evaluate myself. Before

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