Reflection Essay on Clinical Simulation Experience

Running head: REFLECTION ESSAY
REFLECTION ESSAY
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Description
The incident that I will be reflecting is based on my experience in clinical simulation, as a
part of clinical assessment task. I was involved in giving care to patient named Freda Barnett, 62
years old women with clinical issue of increased shortness of breath and high body temperature.
I performed the role of exposure nurse and aiming to demonstrate exposure management skill in
the simulation scenario of a patient with deteriorating health. I was given the handover clinical
case where the patient was experiencing from high body temperature and showed the sign of
trauma due to which she was shifted to emergency ward. The management plan made for care of
the patient, if her body temperature exceeds 38.6 0 C was to take blood culture and administer IV
antibiotic. I was supposed to review the progress notes of Mrs Freda regarding her admission to
emergency ward. As part of care plan, I have noted all the vital sign of patient and administered
IV antibiotic of 1.2 g Benzylpenicillin by diluting with 20ml of water. Her vital sign and body
temperature were brought back to normal after administration of drug.
Feeling
Before the simulation and clinical hand over, I was mindful of giving effective care to the
patient while executing my exposure management skill. I was not sure whether I would be able
to perform my role of exposure nurse as the risk of not giving effective care was prevailing in my
mind. However, for the nursing student, it is evident that providing quality care is the sole
responsibility for better health outcome of the patient (Lavallee et al., 2016). When I visited to
Mrs Freda her condition was not good. After I administered IV antibiotics, her body temperature
get lowered to 37.5 C and she became stabilized. After the scenario, I was happy with my

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activity as I was able to provide effective care to her. As I have successfully completed my
simulation task, I was not that satisfied because I was lacking in some of the crucial practice
which is significant for a nurse to follow. I was quite tensed and worried about my unconscious
behaviour. However, in the field of nursing there is always a scope of learning from mistake.
Reflection is important to nursing practice because it help a nurse to analyse their own
action and weak point that will help a nurse to become competent enough. The method is
identified as the way to examine both professional and personal skill. It is important for nurse as
it will help in their future practice.
Evaluation
My experience in clinical simulation of performing role of exposure nurse had both
positive and negative elements, which has given me insight into perfect and healthy nursing
practice while executing the skill of exposure management. I was confident about my exposure
management skill. My assigned duty was to administer IV antibiotic as the mean of care plan,
give physical examination, and recommend laboratory test and manage any side effect. I was
assertive towards my role; however, I was lacking in maintaining evidence-based practice of
administering medication of wearing goggle before giving IV antibiotic. I failed to follow a set
protocol of maintaining proper hand hygiene and sanitization before and after assessing the
patient. I was feeling guilty about my action. It is evident that hand sanitization must be
performed before and after assessing the patient by five-movement technique (Arias et al., 2016).
Hand sanitization is one of the most crucial parts in nursing. The evidence-based practice
involves a set protocol to clean hand and certain norms to give medicine which aims to provide