Assignment on Reflection on Practice Portfolio
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Running head: REFLECTION ON PRACTICE PORTFOLIOReflection on practice portfolioName of the student:Name of the University:Author note:
1REFLECTION ON PRACTICE PORTFOLIO1.Representation of Values:I work at the psychiatric ward of a hospital. It is quite a different experience than thenormal nursing job. People’s perception about a psychiatric nurse is different as they see usas a mother-figure who consoles the depressed person, passes out medication and makes thebed for the patients. Of course, that is also the part of our job and as a nurse; it is my boundduty to care for the patients. However, what people do not know that we have grown a steelarmor behind out care-giving mother figure. We have to coordinate the ward when a violentpatient attacks the other patients or the nurses (Morse et al. 2012). In a psychiatric ward, thepatients attack nurses more often and every nurse of every psychiatric ward has been attacked(Townsend 2014).I and the other psychiatric nurses have to maintain many complex situationsthroughout the day. I have to pursue the severe paranoid and schizophrenia patients to taketheir daily medications. As I am a psychiatric nurse, I often find it difficult to maintain acordial relationship with the patients (Van Bogaert et al. 2013). All of my patients battleswith mental illness. Sometimes the patients become angry and the outcome is not alwayswell. However, I try to be compassionate towards them and use many kinds of audio visualaids to keep our relationship as good as possible. There are some patients in my facility whoare suffering from severe depression and they thinks that their life worth nothing. As theirprimary caregiver, I always try to cheer them up with inspirational cinema or I show themsome YouTube videos. Their happiness also makes me happy as I feel I am responsible fortheir health (Rössler 2012). Many patients in the facility are very talented and have knack formany inspirational and creative works like painting, photography and writing. I inspire thepatients to pursue these works as it keeps them happy and helps them to recover from theirmental illness very fast. I also have some knack about photography and painting for a long
2REFLECTION ON PRACTICE PORTFOLIOtime. Because of this, I try to indulge the patients to do this type of creative work. I alsoorganize poetry recitation program for the patient as they recite their own poetry. It helps meand the other nurses to know about their current mental state (Rankin 2013). I feel very proud when I see my patients be recovered and get out of the facility to bea competent teacher, painter or a photographer. As a psychiatric nurse, I think I possess thevalue of compassion, which will help me to become a competent nurse for my practice.
3REFLECTION ON PRACTICE PORTFOLIOReference:Morse, G., Salyers, M.P., Rollins, A.L., Monroe-DeVita, M. and Pfahler, C., 2012. Burnoutin mental health services: A review of the problem and its remediation.Administration andPolicy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research,39(5), pp.341-352.Rankin, B., 2013. Emotional intelligence: enhancing values‐based practice andcompassionate care in nursing.Journal of advanced nursing,69(12), pp.2717-2725.Rössler, W., 2012. Stress, burnout, and job dissatisfaction in mental healthworkers.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience,262(2), pp.65-69.Townsend, M.C., 2014.Psychiatric mental health nursing: Concepts of care in evidence-based practice. FA Davis.Van Bogaert, P., Wouters, K., Willems, R., Mondelaers, M. and Clarke, S., 2013. Workengagement supports nurse workforce stability and quality of care: nursing team‐levelanalysis in psychiatric hospitals.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing,20(8),pp.679-686.
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