Nursing Reflective Essay 2022

Running head: NURSING REFLECTIVE ESSAY
NURSING REFLECTIVE ESSAY
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Description
While transiting from the student nurses to the registered nurse, the nurse are not only
happy and excited but also they are afraid, anxious and uncertain about their new professional
life. At this time the nurses questions themselves about their abilities and whether this is the right
career choice or not (Kalb et al., 2015). I had gone through this phase when I started working as
the registered nurse in a hospital after completing my graduation in nursing. I was quite nervous
about the new responsibilities but however the nursing practices that I had learnt in my
graduation helped to overcome all the difficulties.
Feelings
During my graduation days, we were taught about the different nursing practices by
conducting experiments for taking care of patients. The learning phase of those practices went
extremely well but I was quite nervous while applying those practices in my professional life. It
is the responsibility of the nurse to provide a comprehensive care to the patients and maintain
both the professional and therapeutic relations at the same time. I am very happy to apply all my
knowledge of the clinical practices learnt while taking care of patients.
Evaluation
Most of the nursing practice that I had learnt during my graduation days are related with
the NSQHS standards. All of the standards of NSQHS had been prepared for the nurses to
improve their clinical practices. The standards of the NSQHS includes clinical governance
standards, partnering with the consumers standards, preventing and controlling the healthcare
associated infection standard, medication care standard, comprehensive care standard,
communication for safety standard, blood management standard and recognizing and

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responsibility to acute deterioration standards. Most of the nursing clinical practices are related
with the standards of comprehensive care standard and preventing and controlling the healthcare
associated infection standard. The nursing practices that I learnt involved different mechanisms
of infection control, providing accurate medicine to the patients and maintaining a therapeutic
communication both with the patient and the family members of the patient. I am very glad that
all of these practices helped me a lot while working as the professional nurse. I was taught the
ways to maintain a good relationship with patient otherwise they will not describe about the
health issues in details.
Analysis
The different experiments that were conducted for us, taught us the different principles of
nursing which includes that the nurses and the other nursing staffs should treat each other with
dignity and humanity. They must be responsible for their own judgments and actions and also in
managing the risks and keeping everyone safe. They must provide person centered care and
should maintain the confidentiality of the patients. They should develop themselves and also the
other staffs working in the hospital (Barbiani, Nora & Schaefer, 2016). The first standard of the
NSQHS emphasizes on the nursing practices to prevent the spread of infections. The standard
had informed us about the importance of the treating the patients suffering from infections
separately so the infection do not get spread to other patients (NSQHS, 2019). The standard also
informed us about the need to administer antimicrobials to the patients and the necessity of the
reprocessing the usable medical devices (Fey & Jenkins 2015). In the experiments also, we were
taught the same practices. If the devices that are used in the clinical practices are not cleaned
properly, the infection can get spread to other patients. At present I have become more conscious
about the infection control mechanisms and work accordingly so that the infection do not spread.