Reflection in Nursing Professionals
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Running head: REFLECTION IN NURSING REFLECTION IN NURSINGName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1REFLECTION IN NURSING Introduction: Reflection is one of the most important attribute that is necessary for the development ofthe critical, autonomous as well as advanced professionals in the healthcare sectors. Researcherssay that reflection is a continuous cycle in which experiences as well as reflection on theseexperiences are interrelated (Asheley and Stamp 2014). Nursing professionals who take time forreflecting on their daily practices become more efficient. This helps them in providing enhancednursing care and also develops a better understanding of their actions (David, Taylor and Reyes2014). This in turn helps in developing their professional skills. Reflective practice can also bedefined as the ability to examine ones actions and the associated experiences so that they candevelop their practices and enhance their clinical skills. In order to make the reflections moreeffective, certain traits like open-mindedness, courage and willingness to accept followed byacting on and criticizing on owns actions are very important (Naber and Wyatt 2014). In thisassignment, I will be using the Gibbs reflective cycle to effectively reflect two experiences I hadand how by properly reflecting on them, I came to learn my weakness and worked on themsuccessfully.Descriptions: The first step is called the description stage. In this stage the incidents are mainlydescribed which needs to be reflected in the assignments. The first experience which I need toreflect took place in the pharmacy department. While I was busy handling the prescription of thecustomers in the busy ward, noticed that a fellow colleague of mine took the pharmacist badge inthe absence of the pharmacist and used it to access the patient’s information. Although I wanted
2REFLECTION IN NURSING to warn her and prevent her from doing so, I failed to prevent her as there was a long queue ofcustomers waiting for their medicines and they were getting agitated due to the long queues.However, in order to prevent that any confidential information and privacy of any client isbreached, I immediately talked with the pharmacist manager. I disclosed him with the entireincident so that he can take proactive steps from the badge being used irresponsibly hamperingthe confidentiality and privacy of the patients. Following this, I noticed a change in the activitiesof the fellow colleague who from that time onwards, never used badge of the pharmacists ofother seniors to access to patients’ information. Another incident that took place occurred when aold customer of the age 70 came to the pharmacy with a bleeding thumb. He was quite terrifiedand shaking in fear and pain. With the advice of the pharmacist I cleaned the wound o that shecan come and apply the dressing. In the meantime, I communicated with him to keep his focusaway from his thumb and tried to cool him down. However, I noticed that the pharmacist withoutcleaning his hand started applying medicines and dressing the wound. This was entirely againstthe guideline to be followed for hand hygiene. I could not tell anything in front of the customeras he would get more terrified. However I was quite concerned about the patient’s safety andstarted blaming myself for not taking any step against the wrong treatment done with him.Feelings: This step mainly incorporates the stage where an individual reflects that she or he wasfeeling at that particular time when he or she was engaged in the situations. In the first situation,I was quite surprised by the behavior of my colleague. I was quite shocked that how she wasneglecting her professional values which were one of the most important domain of the 4 nursingand Midwifery Council Domains (2010). It is the duty of every nurse to maintain honesty anddignity of her profession and to abide by the pledge of conducting activities which will be of
3REFLECTION IN NURSING much important to betterment of human kind (Cocksege, Bark and Deakin 2015). However, shewas neglecting her duties by not following professionalism at her workplace and using hersenior’s badge for certain activities without the senior’ consent. Although I was a bitdisappointed about her activity but I was also wondering that whether she was properly trainedwith her professional skill and mannerisms. A properly trained nurse should never try to conductsuch an unprofessional act (Scanlon et al. 2015). I was not being able to understand what to do asI was quite confused that whether I should attend the customers or call my colleague an correcther. However after overcoming my dilemma I narrated the incident to manager thinking that thiswould ultimately stop the unprofessional act which was taking place at the pharmacy ward. Inthe second incident also, I was feeling very helpless as I could not decide what actions I neededto take at that particular moment. I was feeling down to see that the pharmacist was completelybreaching one of the main domains of the 4 nursing and Midwifery Council Domains (2010)called the nursing practice and decision banking. She should have known how such a carelessactivity of him can make the patient’s life vulnerable to danger (O’Conell, Gardner and Coyer2014). I also felt that one another domain called the communication skills and interpersonalskills were very poor as in both cases I failed to communicate with the opposite personeffectively to directly handle the situations properly.Evaluation: This step mainly includes the individual to evaluate the different good and bad factorswhich remain associated with the experiences. From the very first incident, I realized that the badfactor about the incident was that the nursing professional was taking chances with theconfidentiality and privacy of the patients. Any irresponsible activity by her could have exposedthe privacy and confidentiality of a large number of patients to different dishonest persons (Lima
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