Nursing Assignment - The importance of Gibb’s reflection

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Name of the Student
Name of the university
Author’s note

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Introduction
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on the actions and involve in the process of
continuous learning. For the midwives and the nurses reflection is one of the core element of
professional development for all the health professionals. Without reflective practices, self-
growth and learning becomes difficult and job satisfaction of the health care professional might
be affected. In this paper, I will use Gibb’s reflective model to reflect in an incident during my
placement. This model of reflection can either be a stand-alone experience or a situation that
anyone goes through frequently. The importance of Gibb’s reflection lies in the fact, that it helps
the reader to discuss the feelings and about the experience. Self-evaluation assists the learners to
learn about their own strength and the weaknesses (Bulman and Schutz 2013). One of the section
of the Gibb’s reflection, consisted of care plan. An action plan and a care plan would give an
account of suggestions that one do to develop professional practice.
Description
During my placement I was in allotted in care of an 86 years old patient, named Iris. The
lady had poor eye sight and had auditory impairment. She used a hearing aid. The patient had
restricted mobility and we had to use wheelchair for moving her from one place to another. The
incident took place, as I was doing the preparation for the cleaning and grooming of the old lady.
I had to transfer her from the bed to the bathroom near to the shower seat. Since the patient
suffered from auditory impairment, I communicated with her in a loud and clear voice. I helped
the patients to get up from the wheel chair to the shower seat, as she was seated carefully in the
shower seat, I left her to fetch the bathrobe, which I had forgotten. I was mindful and alerted the
patients to remain seated unless I return. As I went to fetch the robe, I heard a sharp cry from the

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washroom. I rushed to the bathroom and to my horror, Iris was lying on the floor. I immediately
came forward for help hoping that she hasn’t suffered from a serious injury as he had fall on the
bath mat. It was difficult from my end to pick her up as she was heavy. I called out for help and
after one of my supervisors arrived, Iris was picked up and was made to sit on the wheelchair.
After the thorough physical assessment, it was confirmed, that Iris had not suffered from any
serious injuries. The matter was escalated to the higher authorities, where I had to provide
detailed explanation of the reason for the fall.
Feelings
I was extremely scared when I heard the sharp cry of pain. I was well aware of the fact,
that the patient has past history of falls and multiple falls can have a degrading effect on the
health. The consequences of fall can be bone fractures like fracture of the thigh bone, hip, femur
and spine, pain and delayed healing (Terroso et al. 2013). Fall in adults delays hospital discharge
and use of more hospitalization resources including blocking of beds. The most severe
consequences of falls can be death. One of the important risk factor for fall is the limited access
to the health and the social care services. It also tends to increase the health care costs (Terroso et
al. 2013). Hence, I was nervous and anxious as of what would happen, if the elderly person
received any serious injury as of any kind of internal injury. I was well aware of the fact, that
nurses play an important role in the prevention of falls. I was not sure as I clearly mentioned Iris,
not to move alone in the bathroom, but she must have missed it due to her auditory impairment.
I felt that I should not have left this frail patient alone, and would have given a call to
some other nurse to fetch me the bathrobe of the patient. I felt that this sort of a mistake is grave
mistake and could have even cause impairment in the patient. I was perturbed by the fact as of