Nursing Reflection: Gibbs Cycle

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Nursing Reflection: Gibbs Cycle
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Reflection: Week 5
Step one: Description
The first four element of the clinical reasoning cycle (CRC) helped me to understand
that in order to procure person centred care, a healthcare professional is required to review
the current information of the patient and addition to it gather fresh information on the basis
of his mental and physical state. This information will be then use to relate with the
pathophyiology and thereby developing person specific care.
Step two: Feelings
My feeling while reading the importance of person centred care and its relation to
CRC, I felt extremely overwhelmed. As it helped me to understand how small steps in the
CRC is useful in design PCC. It also felt that how I foolish I was because I used to neglect
the importance of the previous history of the patient and its mental state.
Step three: Evaluation
My understanding is as a professional nurse, I am required to relate the past and
present medical history of the patient with the pathophyiology and then frame the necessary
intervention. The gap in my understanding is I fail to relate the mental state of the
psychological though process of the patient with the present physical condition (fourth step of
CRC).
Step four: Analysis
Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing framework stressed over the effective
evaluation of the all the factors the influences the activities of living in order to effective
decision approach for person centred care (Williams, 2015).

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Figure: Framework for Roper-Logan-Tierney model of nursing
(Source: Williams, 2015)
Moreover, Olsson et al. (2013) is of the opinion that the basic of person centered care
is it asserts patients as persons with different biological, physiological and psychological
needs. It is the duty of the nursing professionals to include patient in the partners of care and
should not be reduced to the disease alone.
Step five: Conclusion
Looking back to this experience, I sense that initially I lacked comprehensive
knowledge about the person centred care. A detailed insight of CRC and its relation to PCC
helped to understand the ways and importance of PCC. However, I also felt that I lack the
basic judgement of understanding the mental state of the patient.