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Running head: REFLECTION REFLECTIONName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
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1REFLECTION Introduction:The capability to become reflective is one of the most important and necessary skills forevery healthcare professionals. This mainly helps to ensure that the healthcare professionals arecontinuing this with their daily learning procedures as well as improving their own practice(Arnold & Boggs, 2015). They need to understand the arenas where they had made a mistake orwhere they could bring out changes to provide effective care to patients. They need to developideas about what skills and knowledge they need to gather so that they can become expertprofessionals in the future (Lindiquits et al., 2018). The following assignment will also be basedon the reflective model Gibbs’ through which I will reflect on one of the experiences that I hadencountered and the ways it had affected completing objective and accurate clinical assessment.Gibbs reflection model:Description:I had received an assignment of watching a video and thereby reflecting on the contentsof the video. The professor has provided us a video which shows the way by which a nursingprofessional established therapeutic relationship with the patient and was successfully able tofollow the standard 2 of NMBA code of conduct. The nursing professional was highly confidentin his approach and was not at all fidgety. He was talking with the patient respectfully andmaintained a calm and composed posture. He successfully indulged the patient in lightconversations by which the patient developed a liking for the nursing professional. The patientwas seen to rely on the nursing professional and thereby gave him the consent to conduct hisvital signs assessment. It was found that the nursing professional was communicating effectivelywith the patient in order to develop a therapeutic relationship. Throughout the entire video it was
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2REFLECTION found that the professional was not only for polite with the patient, but allowed the patient tospeak for himself so that the patient does not feel overpowered by the presence of the nursingprofessional. A relationship was successfully formed which was based on respect, reliance,bonding and liking for each other between the patient and the professional.Feeling:I was quite overwhelmed to see the video that was provided to us along with theassignment. I was quite amazed at the polite nature of the nursing student who was conductingthe vital sign assessment of the patient. He was seen to be completely composed in his approachand such a body posture interested me while I was watching the video. I also got an idea abouthow communication should be initiated with a patient with whom I would be meeting for thefirst time. Throughout the entire discussion I feel that the nurse has provided his bestperformance to gain the trust of the patient. I was also quite surprised to see how he had initiatedin a light conversation with the patient about his own professional career. I was quite happy that Igot a visual experience of how therapeutic relationship can be developed between the patientsand therefore I was feeling quite excited as I decided that I should also follow a calm andcomposed approach so that I do not face any challenges from the patient while taking the vitalsigns.Evaluation:The good part of this experience of writing the assignment was that the video provided inthe assignment gave us a good knowledge about how to develop rapport with the patient. Thenursing professionals who took the responsibility of caring for the patient was calm andcomposed in his approach. He had a smile on his face as he talked with the patient and this
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