Reflective Journal for Nursing Professionals

Running head: REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 1
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REFLECTIVE JOURNAL 2
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Week 1 (23rd Jul - 29th Jul)
1. Each healthcare professional encounters various challenging situations when providing
patient care to ensure well-being. Therefore, resilience is imperative to the nursing
profession. It is the capability to adapt as well as bounce back even when different
scenarios do not provide the desired results. As a nurse, it is essential to utilize one of my
strengths, perseverance, to handle diverse patient situations. Notably, it is the right of
every person to have good health (Grossman and Valiga, 2016). Therefore, resilience will
help me strive to maintain patients' well-being. I will get a greater sense of satisfaction as
different people recover from their illnesses and get good health. Therefore, I will
encourage my fellow nurses to be resilient since the nature of our work is sometimes
stressful.
Week 2 (29th Jul - 5th Aug)
2. On account of various stressful encounters and after conducting a personal evaluation, I
decided to hand in my resignation. Diverse activities at my workplace posed various
challenges. Personal challenges like committing several preventable errors demoralized
me making me consider resignation. Therefore, having been unable to effectively provide
health care services to ensure that patients attain good health lead to the development of
high-stress levels. At this point, I failed to be perseverant.
Week 3 (6th Aug – 12th Aug)
3. From my own judgment, I felt that the Charge Nurse failed to be supportive. I felt
awkward working in such an environment. Furthermore, this created a stressful working

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setting. Nevertheless, I ought to have exercised my leadership skills. I should have shown
the Charge Nurse the way to effectively discharge daily duties as well as how to
cooperate with others. In future occurrences, I will focus on my goals and passions in
regards to my nursing career so as to steer clear similar stressful situations.
Week 4 (13th Aug – 19th Aug)
4. A difficult workmate can contribute to draining one's professionalism as well as
productivity. At my workplace, I did not have the feeling of belonging anymore. Notably,
I was just hardly getting by. I failed to work towards defusing my colleague's bad
behavior. I think I should have modeled the appropriate behavior which the Charge Nurse
could follow to improve cooperation, particularly during work. I will utilize one of my
strengths, that is, humor to talk to my co-worker concerning the unsupportive behavior.
Week 5 (20th Aug – 26th Aug)
5. Combining my leadership and perseverance strengths, I will be patient until I become
satisfied with regards to my nursing career. I will be resilient and apply several
techniques to deal with both stress events and unsupportive workmates. I needed to talk
to the Charge Nurse to evade the stressful situation. It is important to address any
uncomfortable feelings which make the nurse dislike working with others. I will,
therefore, convey what I expect in terms of feedback, direction, and support.
Week 6 (27th Aug – 2nd Sept)
6. From the previous week, I now feel relieved. On the other hand, I am anxious because I
am not aware of what will follow. To reduce feelings of anxiety, I had to get adequate