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Palliative Care Nursing Essay - Assignment

   

Added on  2020-03-16

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Running Head: PALLIATIVE CARE PRACTICEPalliative Care PracticeName of the StudentName of the University Author Note

1PALLIATIVE CARE PRACTICEThe essay is to reflect on the personal experience with death and dying at palliative careward in X hospital. Gibbs’s Reflective cycle model is used for this purpose. The cycle comprisesof “description of the event, analysis of feelings, evaluation, and an action plan to prepare if thesituation arose again” (Gibbs, 1988).During an evening shift, observation round for all the patients, when I reached the roomnumber 10, there was no reply from 82-year-old male. As I found him unconscious with nopulse, I depressed the emergency room bottom staff alert the nursing staff. This is the first eventof death that I encountered in palliative care.When I analyzed my feelings, I was frustrated, and emotionally broken on failing to savepatient. One of senior nurse staff told me that it was inappropriate to pull all the staff to attendthe emergency call. She instructed me to depress only the room call button of the patient.However, I felt that my behavior did not breach the code of conduct as per nursing council ofNew Zealand. I respected the patient’srights in life and death (Schmidt et al., 2017).As I evaluated my feelings, I realized that my feelings were part of the patient care indying stage. It was integral part of palliative care (Slocum-Gori et al., 2013). I realized that Ineed to be more prepared for death. A solid training may help me cope up better next time andavoid such stressor as also highlighted by Cho et al., (2015). Therefore, my action plan in futurewould demonstrate a better understanding of patient death and realization that instructions ofmentors or strong preceptors do have positive implications for nurses to cop up with patientdeath and stress. I am looking forward to patient death education to be able to deliver highquality holistic care.

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