Reflecting on my nursing placements

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Nursing Assignment
-Reflecting on my nursing placements
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1NURSING ASSIGNMENT:
During my placement as a Registered Nurse:
Working as a Registered Nurse, I had to actively work with patients, developing and
implementing care plan for them and administering medicine (Griffiths et al., 2016;
Smolowitz et al., 2015).
During my placement as a professional nurse, I had the opportunity to develop an
understanding about the various roles a Registered Nurse has to and helped me to develop
critical thinking skills. This aspect has been implied in Standard 1 of NMBA that requires
nurses to cortically analyze nursing practice (Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia,
2016). While working with patients, I was able to learn about the importance of an effective
therapeutic relationship with patients which is based on both a professional and personal
approach, which is a part of the NMBA Standard 2 (Parry et al., 2015; NMBA, 2016). I was
able to develop my skills to perform comprehensive assessment of the patient, involving
strategies of primary and secondary assessments, as per NMBA Standards 3 and 4 (NMBA,
2016). I often had to prepare care plan for patients by implementing my knowledge into
practice which is a part of Standard 6 of NMBA (Bobay et al., 2018; NMBA, 2016; Auerbach
et al., 2014).
I understood that to ensure further improvement in my professional skills and
competencies I need to further develop my understanding of the patient conditions and how it
affects the wellbeing of the patient (Kankaka et al., 2017).
During my placement in Emergency Department:
While working in the Emergency Department, I had the opportune advantage of being
mentored by an efficient educator who guided me through my professional journey as a
Registered Nurse.

2NURSING ASSIGNMENT:
The experience in the emergency department helped me appreciate the importance of
collecting comprehensive information from the patients after their admission such as past
medical history, lifestyle and medications, as is implied under Standard 4 of NMBA (NMBA,
2016). My ability to perform primary and secondary assessment on the patient proved to be
an added advantage in the process and ensure compliance to Standard 4 of NMBA. However
the first week was very challenging for me, as I came across new experiences and challenging
situation and critically analyze and evaluate the practice as per Standard 1 of NMBA
(NMBA, 2016; Carter & Jones, 2017).
I was able to provide a satisfactory performance, developing my skills and
competencies in the emergency department. This helped me utilize Standard 3 and 7 of
NMBA that implies maintenance of professional capacity and evaluating outcomes of
practice (NMBA, 2016; Farrell et al., 2015).
Week 1 in Emergency Department:
In the first week of my placement in the Emergency Department, I was entrusted to
take complete responsibility of care delivery for a patient from the point of admission until
their discharge, which included preparing care plan and discharge plan for the patients. The
initial days were very challenging due to the fast paced environment in the emergency ward
compared to surgical or medical wards and also due to a lack of prior experience in the
emergency department (Hensel et al., 2018).
I developed competencies in reviewing patient information (such as medical history,
medication charts) and clinical documents, which helped me identify the care goals and care
needs and helped to relate the patient condition to the problems presented by the patient, and
implement Standard 4 and 5 of NMBA (Haas & Swan, 2014; NMBA, 2016).