Nursing Reflection on Professionalism and Leadership

Running head: NURSING REFLECTION 1
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Description
This reflection is based on the case of Kim who is a registered nurse having graduated in the year
2018.The case is based on a situation whereby Kim was handling a cardiac arrest and carried out
a successful resuscitation case successfully. However, it was unfortunate that he was unable to
determine the right equipment for intubation triggering attending registrar to shout at him
unexpectedly. This is something that went down to affect his personality as a nurse for the
mistake he had and the kind of approach that the registrar subjected him to humiliation by
shouting. He also felt incompetent and hopeless in the eyes of his patients something that made it
hard for him to perform his tasks as a nurse smoothly. Furthermore, the case was worsened by
the approach made by the Nursing Unit manager who called him in front of his colleagues and
embarrassed him mercilessly without putting into consideration the effect of such move. All the
embarrassment was done in the name of counselling Kim after the awful experience he had
undergone through. He remained a hardworking person, enthusiastic and imaginative all through
(Black, 2016 p.4).
Feeling and thinking
My first encounter with this scenario triggered a number of feelings in my mind about what is
required for a person to be a professional nurse leader. Most my reactions were triggered by my
personality which couldn’t allow me to withstand some issues. In the first place, I felt let down
by my fellow nursing professionals who handled Kim`s situation simply because he had
committed a small mistake and having performed the bigger part of the case very effectively. I
also felt ashamed of myself as a nursing professional simply because what happened is
something that was least expected from a nursing professional of that level. I even felt that like
I`m in the wrong profession whereby people careless about the psychological health of their

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fellow colleagues and the need to uplift each other. This was specifically triggered in me by the
kind of utterances that Kim had to experience bearing in mind that he had barely graduated a
year before. Having defender personality means the incident was too personal to me such that I
couldn’t withstand such an ordeal if it was me. I was also puzzled by the scenario because I was
left asking myself many questions about life and what it means to be a nursing leader (Asman et
al, 2019).The level of being overwhelmed was evident in me since I was puzzled on how such
things could happen and I was left thinking on how I could perfect things in future since it’s my
weakness as a defender to have feeling repress. This is because there is no space for such actions
in the professional code of conducts and principles that guide nursing profession. I also felt that
such professionals are disguise to the profession since they were once helped by other
professionals to perfect their skills and yet they were unmoved while mocking their fellow nurse
instead of adhering to the set procedures and when undertaking the counselling session for what
had happened.
Evaluation
On close examination of this case there both good and bad things about the experience .For
instance, the good thing is that the victim didn’t commit any harm to himself despite what he
went through but instead he chose to remain truthful to himself. Another good thing that is that
the colleagues didn’t add more pain to his heart after the incident occurred but instead they chose
to watch in despair as Kim walked from the office to the counselling room (Carpenter, 2018). It
was also good to note that the resuscitation process went on successfully and no life was lost
despite the small mistake that Kim committed. Overall the patient was okay and there was
nothing much to worry about. It was also good lesson to Kim as a profession since it prepared
him to be able to face challenges in the working environment through the application of the