Nursing Reflection Assignment PDF

NURSING REFLECTION
Nursing Reflection
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Introduction
Reflection is considered as a method that can help us learn to comprehend and develop
the practice (Patterson et al., 2016, pp.94-98). It gives one an opportunity to explore and discuss
experiences with a view of attaining good comprehension to gain knowledge. This essay will
assist me to explore my individual experience as a learner from higher education access in
college and university level. It shows my interest and love for nursing journey began and the
challenges I experienced during my practice. It has discussed in details my situations with the
aim of giving insight into how health care support works, how clinical experiences can be
tackled professionally from my past working experience, working in a multi-Disciplinary Team
as a health care support worker and the values that have been added in my experience as a health
practitioner. This essay is divided into three parts that encompass the introduction, body, and
conclusion drawn from summarizing the main information discussed in the piece. The remaining
part covers three work-related situations, and it is fashioned after Gibbs reflection model. The
next section making up the body of this essay is divided into two, the first one discusses my
journey into the nursing practice through health and human science course accessibility and the
degree in the university that has played a role in my experiences and has helped in shaping some
competencies required to be a competent nurse in future. The second section discusses my work
associated situations and how based nursing four domains skills of competencies were applied in
the work-based case.
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Nursing practice in the United Kingdom is regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery
Councils regulations. The standards are set up for training, the rule of conduct and educating and
also performance nurses are required to abide by in making decisions at work that is associated
to both vulnerable victims and the public (Peachey & Meradin, 2010 ). Nurses are expected to
work within the scope of NMC regulations and rules (Dekker, 2016). Those who work against
the provisions risk facing both legal and ethical effects of the actions.
Professional values
My transformation into nursing through the passage of health care support worker acted
as a response to a long maturity craving to take care of all vulnerable individuals who are in
need. I always see nursing as the answer to serving humanity which is my passion. This assisted
me to take up health and social care and nursing program so that I can help many people in the
community that require assistance in regards to their health. These passages have always assisted
me to learn from medical and social module of dealing with problems regarding health (Husebø,
O'Regan and Nestel 2015, pp.368-375).Moreover, medical module view disability as a big
problem that belongs to people with disabilities while the social view acknowledges the step as a
barrier with the belief that the society is not improving individuals with disability by not making
enough facilities required to assist individuals who are vulnerable(Lestander, Lehto and
Engström2016, pp.219-224).Effective and clear communication is part of good record keeping,
and it is crucial in the care continuity and support the delivery of service to the individuals who
are in need(Wilson, D. and Miller 2018.p.59).
This part of the reflective essay puts its focus on professional values in the workplace context. It
also focuses on my personal experience as a health care support worker looking into the issue of
patient safety. The safety of the patient aims to prevent avoidable errors and sufferer harm(Hall,
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Johnson, Watt, Tsipa and O’Connor 2016, p.e0159015).Nurses are expected to be accountable
for the patients and safety of the public throughout their occupation. The professional nursing
competence aspect is chosen because of the broadening concern about the safety of the sufferers
in the United Kingdom. There have been reports like Sir Francis reportshow the poor patient
safety occurrences in the UK.Also, other reports have shown that there is inadequate and unsafe
care responsible for many causalities within the NHS yearly (Wong, Etchells, Kuper, Levinson,
and Shojania 2010, pp.1425-1439.). The concern of the victim's safety recorded in the reports
had to do with treatment error, patients falling, and inability to detect abuse and safeguard patient
(Graban, M., 2011). Although there have been measures taken to improve the safety of the
patient, current reports indicate that there is still poor patient safety in the United Kingdom
(Valentine, Nembhard, and Edmondson 2015, pp.e16-e30). This made me decide to work and
improve the safety of the patient and select it as a topic for this reflective essay.This reflection
assisted me to reflect on my nursing experiences with a view of assessing my practice as a nurse.
These experiences have helped me in promoting the quality of life and focus on improving the
vulnerable individuals in the future. Quality and safety of the patient have always been my
priority since I joined the university to study nursing. This reflection has reminded me that as
healthcare professionals, we devote our profession to serve the sufferers. In addition, I have
focused on the critical desired competencies through the formation in academics, training, and
practice. I will forever devote myself to help individuals who are vulnerable in the community.
Patient safety is paramount at this point in our lives.
Communication and interpersonal skills
During my practice, the whole surgery team encompassing the surgeon, bedside nurse,
and other medics, conducted a 15-minute daily briefing at every sufferer's bedside. The
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