Reflection Assignment Part 1

Running head: REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT PART 1
REFLECTION ASSIGNMENT PART 1
Name of the student:
Name of the university:
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Reflection in nursing:
Reflective practice is one of the best ways of gaining insights about different strengths
and weakness from experiences gained in the workplace. Thereby, it acts as a life-long learning
tool that helps individuals to learn from experiences and help in improving the ways they work.
Reflective practice can be defined as the process of making sense of events and situations and
actions in the workplace. It helps in enhancing personal development by developing the skill of
self-awareness (Walker et al., 2016). It helps in improvement of patient care as well as better
teamwork. it also helps in identification of skills essential for smooth flow of work in regular
nursing practices by expanding and developing clinical knowledge and skills (Redmond et al.,
2017). I realized that it can help by demonstrating everyday learning and I have found it useful
for processing my thoughts after a critical incident. Reflection can be done in four important
stages which might involve “in the moment”, “looking back”, “looking again” and also “moving
on”. Most of the universities specialized in nursing courses have included reflective practices in
their curriculums. This helps nursing students to develop the habit or conducting reflective
practices so that they can engage in lifelong learning thereby constantly upgrading themselves
with better skills and knowledge required for maintaining safety and quality care for patients.
Healthcare technologies:
Healthcare technology can be explained as the application of the organized knowledge
and skills in the form of medicines, devices, vaccines, procedures as well as systems that are
developed for solving a health problem and improve the quality of lives. I have learnt that
healthcare technologies can be extremely helpful in developing future therapies like they can
help in supporting the development of novel therapies with technologies for enhancing efficacy,

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minimization of costs and reduction of the risks of patients. Healthcare technologies can also
help in frontiers of physical intervention. By this, it means that healthcare technologies can help
in restoring function and optimization of the surgery and other physical interventions for
achieving high precision with minimal invasiveness (Rouleau et al., 2015). I also believe that
healthcare technologies have the capability of optimizing treatments. It can help by optimizing
care through effective diagnosis as well as patient-specific prediction and evidence based
interventions. Healthcare technologies would also play a great role in transforming community
health and care. These methods can utilize real-time information for supporting self-
management of health and well-being as well as in facilitation of timely interventions (Guo et al.,
2016). One interesting feature which made me impressed was the utilization of robotics in
healthcare. These help by relieving medical personnel from routine tasks that take more time
away from more pressing responsibilities. It also helps professionals by making medical
procedures not only safer but also less expensive for the patients. They are also seen to perform
accurate surgery in different tiny places and transporting dangerous substances.
End of Life ethics:
Informed consent can be described as the ethical procedures where nurses are expected to
discuss the treatment options available to the patients in details and discuss the various pros and
cons associated with the treatment. It entirely depends on the patient the treatment option that the
patient chooses and the nursing professionals have no right to force her or to coerce her with
their own suggestions (Bollig et al., 2016). I have realized that taking informed consent is one of
the main ways by exhibiting respect for the autonomy and dignity of the patients. Patients have
the complete rights about their own lives and they can thereby choose what they want to do with
their life or how they want to lead their rights. In such a situation, every nurses need to respect