TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PROCESS 2022

Running head: TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Name of the student
Name of the university
Author note

1TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Introduction
Reflection is termed as an important process for nursing professionals as it helps them
to understand the strengths and limitations of the nursing process so that they could retrospect
upon their actions and develop scope of improvements. Upon reflecting, they are provided
with opportunities to highlight their process related loopholes and work on them to enhance
their personal and professional skills (Barksby, Butcher & Whysall, 2015).
In this paper, I would also be reflecting upon one of my bachelor’s practicum session
in which I, along with a group of 4 student nurses were assigned with clinical duty to assist
registered nurses in emergency ward, I would be using Gibbs reflective model. The primary
focus of my reflection would be the way I was able to implement the theoretical NSQHS
standards in my nursing practicum practice.
Description
In the final section of my bachelor’s nursing curriculum, we are provided with
multiple practicum so that we could understand the clinical settings and the way nursing
professionals conduct their functions effectively. I was also assigned with a clinical
practicum session for three weeks and along with four student nurses, I was asked to assist
registered nurse in emergency ward so that we could understand the process of emergency
wards. However, upon joining I decided to maintain clinical governance and developing
effective communication by maintaining reliability, safety and quality of health care so that
positive patient outcome could be observed. Despite this, while calculating the drug dosage, I
made minimal calculation error that could have affected the reliability and effectiveness of
the interventions. Therefore, in such condition, my effective communication abilities helped
me to rectify my mistake and I was able to protect the patient to consume improper dosage of
medication (Safetyandquality.gov.au, 2019).

2TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Feelings
After knowing about my clinical placement for practicum, I was excited as I was
about to explore the busiest and crucial department of healthcare. As per (), emergency
nursing professionals requires effective knowledge and rapid decision making abilities so that
they could provide timely care to the patients. Upon attending the ward for clinical placement
I decided to follow all the NSQHS standards for my care delivery. Especially, I was eager to
observe and maintain clinical governance and effective communication for the improvement
of my professional skills. However, the first mistake that I made while calculating the
medicinal dosage affected my confidence and made me reflect upon my calculating and
dosage maintaining calculations. Despite this, I was able to control my nerves and inform the
registered nurse about my mistake and implemented my effective communication abilities to
prevent the adverse effects of medication error (Bramhall, 2014).
Evaluation
This experience was only about positive and neutral experiences as I gained this
experience during my bachelor’s days and I was unaware of the processes that I could be able
to implement the theoretical knowledge in the practicum sessions. Further, I was able to
identify the complications that would affect my ability as nursing profession and hence, this
experience helped me to understand the way I would be able to rectify my professional
practices.
Analysis
From the entire scenario I understood that effective communication is very important
in the clinical setting. As I committed a mistake and was scared to confess that to the
registered nurse, my knowledge and skills regarding effective communication helped me a
lot. As the dosage that was calculated by me was wrong I violated the rules of the clinical