The Patient Experience and Partnering In Care

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The Patient Experience and Partnering In Care
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The Patient Experience and Partnering In Care
Patient’s Experience Using Gibb’s Reflection Cycle
Ideally, patient falls has undoubtedly become one of the most frequent events in the
corridor of healthcare facilities thus affecting the overall safety of patients. Consequently,
various methods are required in preventing falls among patients. However, recognizing,
evaluating as well as preventing the aspect of patient falls has become a significant problem for
the healthcare practitioners in the haste of providing a safe environment in a particular healthcare
setting. In this light, various hospitals have come together with the aim of understanding the
contributing factor of patient falls as well as decreasing their occurrence and the resulting overall
injuries or slightly deaths. This paper proposes to discuss in detail the aspect of patient falls by
the use of Gibb’s reflection cycle on Mr. Taylor’s experience.
Step #1 (Description)
In essence, this is a step that closely looks at the aspect of quality in regards to the
patient’s experience thus providing nurses with tools of assessing the same. For instance, this
scenario is meant to acknowledge nurses with the need of preventing patient’s fall in a particular
healthcare system as well as keeping records on falls. This scenario is about a 75 years old
patient named Mr. Taylor who has undoubtedly undergone various events regarding medical as
well as surgical experience as a result of falls. Nonetheless, his entire experience has been
surrounded with both positive as well as negative aspects in public as well as the private hospital.
One apparent negative aspect of his experience is that the doctors in public hospital did not
consider taking his blood samples for testing or even informing him of fall prevention strategies.
However, one clear positive experience was that Mr. Taylor was informed about his current
situation. The main themes that are presented in this scenario are the aspect of the lack of

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information to patients regarding patient’s prevention techniques even though there are adequate
cares for particular presenting conditions.
Step #2 (Feeling)
During the consultation, I undoubtedly had different feelings. I felt sympathetic for
Taylor because his experience reminded me of the time I was a teenager. I had an accident when
I was 14 years, and I could not withstand the pain I had gone through not forgetting the fact that I
had diabetes and asthma. In a review from Dunn, O’Neill, as well as Feldman (2014) I found out
those patients who suffer from injuries as a result of accidents, is at risk of experiencing
depression from such a horrible experience (Diessel & Hilpert, 2016). However, the review also
concluded that treatment and close care could improve the psychological trauma (Dauvrin,
2016). My experience of that accident meant that I could relate well to that patient. I felt some
anger at one point during the consultation. The excitement was directed to the practitioners who
made Taylor wait for 11 hours before he could get medical attention (Giammaria, Cerrato,
Imazio, & Curnis, 2017). Additionally, I was angry because of how public hospitals treated its
patients with no instance care. I was pitiful for Taylor’s father for being wrongly amputated.
Step #3 (Evaluation)
On evaluation, the overall event was somehow good in a way. First, it added to an
individual’s dealing with old adult and dealing with patients who have had accidents. Although
someone might not have had much experience with an old adult, he or she would surely welcome
such a challenge in the course of their career. Additionally, this experience no doubt reaffirmed a
person’s choice as a nurse (Philpott, Nandurkar, Lubel, & Gibson, 2014). During a person’s
career journey, one may have a little doubt on whether or not he or she has chosen the right path.
Nonetheless, there is always some point where one feels that he or she has made the right choice.