Professional Portfolio: Clinical Placement Experience and Reflection

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Table of Contents
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Part 2:.........................................................................................................................................2
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Part 1:
I had the opportunity to complete my community placement in the West care medical
centre located at Melton. This is one of the most outstanding Medical Centres, providing a
range of different Healthcare services all across Victoria. As illustrated in their official
website, the West care Medical Centre had been providing quality Healthcare services to the
people of Melton since 1989 (Westcare.net.au, 2018). The mission and vision of the medical
centre is established on the belief that Melton deserves exceptional health facilities with
optimal accessibility, and the organisation has been successfully able to achieve this outcome
with decades of hard work and dedication. It has to be mentioned in the context that the west
care medical centre despite being privatized, is run entirely by the groups of principal
doctors, who also are the owners and founders of the organization. Hence, the west care
medical centre is free of the influence of corporate industrialization and consumerism. Hence
the care services provided by the west care medical centre is compassionate, empathetic and
equally accessible for different socio-economic strata. There are various range of services
provided by the organisation, including health assessments, minor surgeries, pregnancy and
maternity care, wound management and care, primary GP care, travel medicine and last but
not the least, mental health care services along with dentistry and physiotherapy
(Westcare.net.au, 2018). Hence, it had been a great experience for me to work in this
organization for me which helped me to build my professional competence and skills.
Part 2:
General practice can be considered as the first point of contact in the health care
scenario, it is the first pedestal of the primary health care scenario and undoubtedly it
entertains the demand from the target patient populations as well. The general practice
environment as a result is the most important sectors of the healthcare industry and the

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practice nurses can be considered as an integral part of the general practice environment
(Fallatah & Laschinger, 2016). For my clinical placement that I completed in the estimate
medical centre, I was placed under the supervisor of the practice nurse itself. Practice nurses
are the nursing professionals that are associated with a varied range of care activities, which
also requires the practice nurse to have a thorough understanding and knowledge of the
concept of community and primary health care. Hence, the Practice nursing perspective had
always been a sector of professional practice that intrigued me immensely. Fortunately, I had
the opportunity to complete the community placement under the supervision of the practice
nurse. She had been very warm and supportive with me and I have learned a wealth practice
knowledge and expertise from her.
Considering the professional responsibilities of a practice nurse, it has to be
mentioned that there is a varied range professional skills and expertise knowledge that a
practice nurse has to have in order to be able to address the differential care needs of the
varied range of patient populations that arrive at GP or primary care clinics. As discussed by
the authors, the practice nurse has to attain a diverse range of clinical and specialist skills so
that they can collaboratively practice in the general practice environment. As discussed by
Fallatah and Laschinger, (2016) in their article, the patients come with multifactorial health
issues to the general practice environment, and addressing these needs requires
multidisciplinary care approaches and interventions. Hence, the practice nurses need to have
entry level knowledge in different multidisciplinary care sectors to provide safe and effective
care.
As mentioned by the office in the article the general practice nurse is at like an
indispensable elements of the Primary Health Care team. in certain cases the practice nurses
in the general practice environment might be observed to share their duties between different
people, however, in other cases especially in smaller general practice environment a