Nursing Reflection

Running head: NURSING REFLECTION
NURSING REFLECTION
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Introduction
Reflection is broadly labeled as the primary characteristic within nursing occupation,
because through the application of appropriate reflective nursing practice, the nursing
professional’s would be capable to review their individual actions and can improve their area of
practice (Baldie et al., 2016). The above mentioned reflection also delivers them the possibility
of development within their profession, thereby assisting nurses to develop their individual skills
and capabilities. In this study, I will discuss my personal Bachelor’s practical experiences which
had facilitated me to apply my theoretical understanding into the hands-on circumstances. I will
use the concept of 5 R’s reflective model and discuss the method of my individual understanding
regarding the application of The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards
into practical situations (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in HealthCare, 2019).
Industry standard 1: Communicating for safety standard
Reporting
During one of my clinical practice in geriatric unit, I was assisting the patient named Mr.
A (60) male, who was not able to adequately pay attention to the health interventions that was
recommended to him. He could not speak English fluently and require some time to respond to
the nurses who were instructing or managing him. Due to lack of understanding he was quite
depressed and was not active towards his treatment plan. Therefore, to assist him in
understanding the complete process I implemented effective communication skills and asked the
nurses to develop a therapeutic relationship with the patient.

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Responding
After observing the un-responsiveness of the patient towards the nurses, I thought to
implement effective communicating skills that would assist the nurses to develop a therapeutic
relationship with the patient, thus motivating the patient to respond and react to the nurses and
overcome from the sign of stress and depression (Gluyas, 2015). I implemented the intervention
of developing therapeutic relationship by communicating more and more with the patient and
understand his concern and issues, hence, exhibiting my theoretical and personal understanding
of the situation.
Relating
According to the National Safety and Quality Health Service Stranded 6, the organization
must focus on supporting the patient with effective communication, as a part of patient care. It is
the responsibility of the healthcare and nursing professionals to implement the effective care
method that would eventually result in the development of multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The
MDT will be accountable for actively involving with the patient and ensuring adequate
development and recovery of the patient. According to (Delaney, 2018), development of
therapeutic communication is crucial for managing and treating the patient associated with sign
of depression and stress.
Reasoning
According to Conroy et al. (2017), development of any critical condition will affect the
patient psychological condition that is directly responsible for increasing the health complication
in the patient. In this scenario, Mr. A, was unable to concentrate and focus on his critical health
issue because of inadequate knowledge and understanding that was triggering the symptoms of