CRITICAL REFLECTION ON DRAIN REMOVAL
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Markel, 2014). I then ensured that the tip of the draining was intact and gathered the drain
tubing in my hand as the drain was being removed. Then, I put the drain tube on a waterproof
pad preventing the bed and floor from contamination. Lastly, I had to cover the drain site
with a sterile dressing (Magner, Houghton, Craig & Cowman, 2013) where I did the main
mistake and should assist the patient back to their comfortable position and adjusts their bed.
Feelings
I was very nervous on hearing that I had to perform the drain removal process on a
patient. We were taught about this process in our lectures but never applied those steps on a
patient. So, it was a bit challenging task for me. Nevertheless, I knew that once in my life I
have to do it first. Hence, I cooled down and focussed on doing the drain removal. I revised
all the steps to be followed in the process. Though after all this revision, I forgot some steps
and did some wrong. However, it was a good experience as with my faults I learned a lot and
become confident on doing it better the next time.
Self-evaluation
My first experience of doing a drain removal was indeed a successful one. I learned so
many new things on doing this process and also gained knowledge about communication skill
which is again an important parameter in the nursing practice. The teachers were happy about
my performance. Though, they pointed some errors which need to be rectified. However,
they encouraged us by saying mistakes helps in betterment. However, my mistakes were that
I forgot to do hand hygiene two times during the process, and raised the patient bed
inappropriately. In addition to these two, I also did not use the correct dressing for the drain
removal. One should use occlusive dressing like adhesive one in the process of drain

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