Approaches to Professional Nursing Practice

RUNNING HEAD: APPROACHES TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE 1
Approaches to professional nursing practice
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APPROACHES TO PROFESSIONAL NURSING PRACTICE 2
Approaches to professional nursing practice
DESCRIPTION
Reflection is an important aspect in nursing profession as it enables the nurses to improve
on what they did wrong in a previous case. In this assignment, I will reflect on mastery in
medication scenario that was carried out in the lab .I will utilize the Gibbs mode of reflection
since it is the most convenient method of reflection (Williams, Woolliams, & Spiro, 2012). This
reflection is in line with the NMBA standard 2 whereby nurses are supposed to engage in
therapeutic and professional relationships with their clients (Edmonds, Cashin, & Heartfield,
2016). During my clinical placement in the mastery CPU class in lab 4, there were somethings
that I did not do well. There was a case in which I got unsatisfactory in administering of
medication. I was very poor in communicating with the patient. I also missed out on checking
out any possible allergy to the patient. Other things that I did not do well include failure to
validate medicine correctly and not discussing the side effects of the drugs with the patient.
Finally, I did not check the medicine properly to find out if it had expired or not. After obtaining
advice from my tutor, I performed well in the second medication and in this case, I adhered to
the five rights of medication which include the right dose, right patient, right route and the right
frequency. In the second attempt, my communication was also better since I spoke loudly and
everyone could hear me.
ANALYSIS
There are vital lessons that I learnt from the whole experience. I now understand the
importance of effective communication with the patient before administering any medicine. This
is in line with NMBA code of conducts standard 2 that states that nurses should engage in