Gibb’s Reflection

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GIBB’S REFLECTION
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Description
In this essay I will use Gibb’s reflection cycle to reflect on my learning the experiences during
week 5, 6 and 7.
In our first and the second semester we have learnt about Person centered care, Roper-
Logan-Tierney model of nursing. I had often read in books that effective nursing requires caring,
skill and art to care for the patients in an effective way. I have also learnt that a theoretical
application of the nursing theories. I was quite well acquainted with the fact, that nurse educators
use these nursing theories to set up the proper curricula. In spite of knowing the usefulness of the
different nursing theories, I had almost no knowledge about the Roper-Logan Tierney model and
person centered care. I only had an idea that the theory was based upon the activities of daily
living, which are often termed as the activities of daily living (ADLs). I have researched on a
priority basis. I tried to align the theories based with my own daily activities of living. Several
things were going in the mind of the nurses. Rigorous brainstorming has helped me a lot to
concentrate on the online tutorials and the classes that has been done. RLT model had long been
used in the nursing context like caring for the patient with the hepatitis C and endocartitis
(Williams, 2015). Management of pain in such a patient comes under the ADLs – maintaining a
safe environment for the patient.
Feelings
While learning about the Roper Logan Tierney model and person centered care, I have
learnt that the role of the nurses in the care of the patient is not only confined to cleaning and
dressing, giving medicines, but is something much larger than that. The different learning

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modules has made me realize how the nurses have to work in frontline with the other health care
professionals to get the best possible person centered care (Santana et al., 2013). I have learnt
about the center point of the R-L-T model of nursing that prompts the use of the model for
assessing the patient. From this theory, I have come to know about the lifespan, the dependent
and the independent continuum (Li & Porock, 2014). I have also learnt about the five factor that
influences the activities of living such as the biological, the psychological, the socio-cultural,
environmental and the politico-economic factor (Williams, 2015). One of the main thing that I
have learnt in my course modules is the important assumptions of the RLT model. I have learnt
how the activities of living are reflection of the health of a patients. I has to be remembered that
each person performs each activities of living with an increased independence.
Evaluation
Learning of the RLT in this semester has provided me with the concepts of several
theoretical framework. I have understood why the RLT model is a holistic model in nursing and
is used all medical settings. One of the most the important thing is that the activities mentioned
by the RLT model is quite simple and even matches with our activities of living, like maintain a
safe environment, communication, bathing, elimination, eating and drinking, washing and
dressing and controlling the body temperature , mobilization , working, playing and sleeping
(Huitzi-Egilegor et al., 2015). While studying about patient centered care, I have studied that it is
the duty of the nurses to care for the nurses. Prejudices and stigmatization often deters the nurses
from catering to the grievances of the patient. A recovery base approach is required for the
patients (Patton, 2013). For example, it is the duty of the nurses to respect the autonomy of the
elders, such as elderly people taking the shower. It is necessary to say that the nurses does not
only the focus on the treatment but also address the other primary care needs (Patton, 2013).