Nursing Reflection

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1) Mental Health and Psychiatry
I am working in a Mental Health Rehabilitation Centre addressing patients dealing
with severe mental illness and was guided by the mental health specialist. Rehabilitation
stands for the procedure of reinstating an individual to return to their normal life and
overcome from their mental illness. I had an experience of dealing with an old patient, who
was 75 years old and was suffering from schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia is considered as the condition of severe and chronic mental illness
where an individual is devoid of the capability to think, behave and feel. The patient was at a
crucial stage where he could not understand or comprehend what exactly he should do or
perform overcome from his mental health condition (Singh et al., 2017). Due to his severe
health condition he was developing symptoms of hallucination and delusion, because of
which he was forgetting to take his medicines, not maintaining his personal hygiene,
insomnia, incapability to concentrate and express.
The mental health specialist explained the patient regarding the mediation therapy and
also involved his family members, who could provide the patient with medicines on time and
also encouraged him to increase his concentration by motivating him to participate in
different psychosocial intervention that comprise of cognitive behavioural therapy that will
help the patient to improve his functioning skills (Seeman, 2018). The patient was also
advised to maintain a healthy lifestyle by eating proper food and consuming his prescribed
anti-psychotic medicines associated with psychosocial intervention. As the patient was very
old, it was recommended that he used to consume lower dose of his prescribed antipsychotic
medicine.
The complete assessment helped me to understand the benefit of cognitive
behavioural therapy (CBT) for treating the patient suffering from schizophrenia associated

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with antipsychotic medicine that will reduce the complication of schizophrenia (Ramaprasad
& Kalyanasundaram, 2015).
2) Child care and Paediatrics
I am working in a Child Care unit as a paediatric nurse or children nurse addressing
the health challenges faced by children of various ages suffering from diverse condition.
Three major trait are crucial for being a paediatric nurse that includes empathy, respect and
sensitivity. Being a paediatric nurse, I had to adapt the trait of being flexible and organised
with certain behaviours and values that comprise of commitment, competence, care,
communication and courage to deal with the children (Gray, Hutch & Christensen, 2016).
I had an experience of dealing with a new born child and administrating the child with
proper vaccine as his parents were not aware of the techniques that should be adapted to take
effective care of the child. Educating the parents regarding the child’s vaccines and strategies
on how to take care of the child was also conducted by me that helped me to understand the
mind-set and psychology of the parents on handling the child (Zachariasse et al., 2017).
Effective communication is the most crucial factor of being a paediatric nurse as I have to
communicate with the parents and understand their concern and also be creative while
providing care to the children and supporting the children.
As the child was little sick, I had to provide safety, bathing and comfort to the child as
the primary care giver and initiate the community set-up with basic responsibility that include
immunization, health assessment and primary healthcare. I also had to act as a nursing
advocate in order to protect the rights of the child and deliver best quality of care to the child.
There are four characteristics of a nursing teacher that would primarily focus to prevent the
child from any severe illness and maintain the health of the child (Butler, Willetts & Copnell,
2017).