Reflective Assignment 2022

Running head: REFLECTIVE ASSIGNMENT
REFLECTIVE ASSIGNMENT
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Reflection is a vital tool that is operated by the nursing learners in the course of their
clinical placements. Conferring to Bulman and Schutz (2013), reflection is used as an important
mode of gathering knowledge in order to promote professional and personal growth. This
assignment will imitate on the 2 National Safety and Quality Health Services (NSQHS)
formulated by the healthcare government in order to provide value care to the patient. The
reflection includes my clinical experience which I had experienced during my clinical placement.
The structure of the reflection is based on the Gibbs’ reflective cycle. Gibbs’ reflective cycle is
considered as the one of the most commonly used theoretical model in order to appraise the
efficiency of various approaches and in addition to develop a link between the theory and
practice (Chang & Daly, 2016). The essay is founded on my industry reflection.
This reflection is grounded on the 3rd standard formulated by the NSQHS, which is
preventing and controlling healthcare associated infection standard. Conferring to the Australian
Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care [ACSQHC], 2017, the third standard of the
NSQHS is associated with the prevention and controlling of the infection which is frequently
observed in the healthcare. This assignment is the Reflection of my experience in the third year
of my clinical placements in the gynecology unit. While working in a gynecology unit, I
confronted a problem that is when the team of the doctor reviewed a patient, who is suffering
from airborne disease and in contact precautions, I observed that they are treating the patient by
wearing a usual surgical mask. Whereas, according to Bischoff (2014), the health professionals
are suggested to wear N95 or P2 masks while handling a patient with chronic infectious illness.
In the above incident, I observed that due to this when the team visits the other patients; they will
be in the risks of getting infected as it is an unsafe practice. I have gained knowledge regarding
the appropriate use of PPE and was confident about my knowledge; but felt daunted since the

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team of the GP was more knowledgeable and knowledgeable than me, who is a third-year
learner.
After the incident the supervisor nurse, with whom I was assigned to work with spoke to
the team of the doctors about the incident. The doctors retorted absolutely to the response and
response received from the administrator. As the occurrence experienced by me was inspiring
and at the same time challenging, I learned a lot from the incident and hence does not remorse by
acting on the experiment before examining another patient. It is one of the significant
experiences during my clinical placement, as I learnt the significance of performing an assertive
action when with the colleagues for the safety of the patient in a sensitive manner. My act was
according to the third Code of professional Conduct in Nursing and Midwifery which mentions
that it is the responsibility of the nurse to practice sensitively and act accordingly to detect and
lessen the patient risk.
Infection prevention and control is the technical method to avoid the damage that can be
instigated by infection among the patient and healthcare workers; but, rendering to World Health
Organization (2016), mutual complications are seem to be related with the healthcare
contaminations in the clinical area. In order to reduce the hazard of contamination, the standard
protections and precautions such as, practice of the personal protective equipment (PPE), hand
hygiene, safe disposal and use of sharp equipment’s, cough etiquette and respiratory hygiene are
the principal line tactic to the Infection prevention and control (Forrester & Griffiths, 2015).
Current strategies which are published by the Department of Health (2017), which highlights the
selection of the communicating infections and illnesses through the inappropriate use of PPE
(personal protective equipment), and the requirement to appraise the policies of the standard
protections and measures.