Nursing Reflection - Challenging Situations

Running head: NURSING REFLECTION
NURSING REFLECTION
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NURSING REFLECTION1
Situation 1
One of the first challenging situation is as the newly enrolled Registered Nurse (RN)
being made as the team leader. This because the new RN has relatively little experience and
administering such demanding work environments will cause nothing but stress and burnout.
Indeed, it has been evidenced by Rosenkoetter & Bowcutt (2017), that transitioning for new
nurses is almost always accompanied by stress, frustration and emotional upheavals for nurses
due to issues like role ambiguity and uncertainty which are further aggravated by additional
nursing workforce concerns such as bullying and critical patient scenarios. Indeed, the new RN
faces understaffing and rebuking by the (Assistant in Nurse) AIN Mandy.
I would definitely feel tensed and difficulty to perform well. My feelings of anxiety
would further increase after observing Sarah. It has been evidenced that compassion fatigue is
common in the new RN and paves the way for anxiety and clinical errors. To address this issue I
would request additional nursing staff to the nurse practitioner as well Sarah to take a break at
the storeroom. Healthcare organizations are advised to make staffing as well as self-care
arrangements for nurses facing burnout (Best, 2019).
One relatable experience was when I was an AIN in my clinical placement and felt much
tensed when I as placed in the emergency department. My supervisor however empathized with
me, gave me time to talk to her and arranged for a substitute nurse in the meanwhile. However, I
would like to ask:
1. Was it right to make the new RN as the team leader?
2. How can nursing burnout be tackled during issues like understaffing?