Learning in Nursing | Application

Running head: NURSING
Nursing
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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1NURSING
Look Back
In this week, I served my community placement in a high school. In school, I was
assigned to the student success centre in order to support the lead teacher in the class. I was
supposed to learn how to work with other staffs in a collaborative manner.
Elaborate and Analysis
The perception that has changed during my community placement in the student
success centre is, importance of inter and intra-professional collaboration in handling nurse
grief with grieving patients. Intra-professional collaboration deals with collaborating multiple
members of the same profession working together in order to deliver work in a collaborate
manner. Inter-professional collaboration deals with working in partnership with the
healthcare professionals and the client towards promoting shared decision making in a social
or health issue [College of Nurse of Ontario (CNO), 2014]. During my community placement
in high school, I was asked to provide mental support to the children in regard to an incidence
of loss of a 9 grade student one week ago. While in the room, where the memorial was taking
place, I felt to hold my emotions when I saw the students crying and sobering. A deep sense
of grief affected me intensely. My emerging thoughts and feelings indicated that it is difficult
to hold emotions under a condition of extreme grief. Initially I was very confident about my
feelings and I assumed that I can hold my emotions. However, my new thinking and
imagination helped me to realize that it is difficult to hold emotions while handling patients’
during grief situation. Oates and Maani-Fogelman (2019) stated that people experience grief
during loss of loved ones. It is the duty of the nursing professional to deliver compassionate
care to the patients. It is important for the nursing professional to maintain an emotional
resiliency in order to provide person centred care to the people who are passing through grief.
In order to maintain emotional resiliency, a nursing professional must increase inter-