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Reflection of Healthcare Professional Assignment

   

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Running head: REFLECTION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSREFLECTION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

1REFLECTION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSReflective practice may be defined as the capacity by which healthcare professionals canreflect on action so that they can engage in the process of continuous learning throughout theirprofession and career. Researchers have described the process as a reasoned thought (Barnard2017). It can also be described as thinking whilst doing. Reflection on action is the approach thathelps healthcare professionals to experience as well as further analyze them to develop skills andthereby helps in enhancement to further practices. There are also increased learning from anexperience or situation as well as help in promotion of deep learning (Day 2013). The otherbenefits are the promotion of deepened learning that helps both in development of professionalroles as well as care services. It also helps in identification of the educational needs as well ashelp in acquisition if new knowledge that takes place from the mistakes or the realisations onehas after the occurrence of the situation. This assignment would be mainly helping me to reflecton my own experiences and thereby develop knowledge that would help me to evolve out asbetter professional in the future. Gibbs cycle would be used as the reflective model in theassignment. The first step of the reflective cycle is called the description phase. This step mainlyinvolves the description of the event that had taken place that the healthcare professional wouldbe reflecting on. Due to my good clinical skills and ability to develop good relationship andrapport with patients, the higher authority once gave me a chance to become a team leader of therehabilitation ward. The rehabilitation nurse manager as well as the care coordinator was notpresent to handle a case and therefore the case was assigned to me where I had to mainly act as acare coordinator in the multidisciplinary team. A sixty-year-old patient was transferred from theemergency ward to the rehabilitation after her preliminary treatment of stroke that took place inher house last night. I was given the responsibility to lead the multidisciplinary team who would

2REFLECTION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSbe caring for the patient and this included three junior nurses, two senior nurses, onephysiotherapist, one occupational therapist, one speech therapist, dietician, patient educator andothers. She had diabetes as well as foot ulcer and therefore, podologist was also required. Astreatment was initiated of the patient, much improper service, delivery was observed thataffected person centred as well as safe care to the patient. The patient’s family summoned meand complained that the physiotherapist as well as the speech therapist had arrived at the sametime and argued in front of the patient about allocation of timing. Both of them were arguingabout who would be providing her service and within moments both of them left providing noservice to the patient. I was reported that a medication error had occurred where wrong dose wasgiven to the patient but luckily, it had not affected the patient largely. When I asked the juniornurses, they blamed each other stating, documentation handwriting was wrong, other stating thatthe junior nurse was not careful enough and many other excuses. Not only that, there were alsotremendous argument between the senior nurse who was an advanced nurse practitioner and thedietician. The dietician provided a chart, which was not followed by the senior nurses, and shemade some changes in the diet plan of the patient. The junior nurses were also seen to notcommunicate with the senior nurses. Junior nurses complained that the senior nurses treat themunfairly and the senior nurses complained that they are not provided respect to their position.Therefore, the care that was provided to the patient was neither patient centred nor safe andtherefore it failed to satisfy the patient. The family members lodged complaints and I wasadvised to look into the matter with urgency.The second step of the assignment is the feeling stage that states how the professional feltat the time of the incident. At the very beginning, I was quite happy to get the responsibility ofthe care coordinator and wanted to use this opportunity to develop experiences and develop an

3REFLECTION OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALSunderstanding of my skills and knowledge. However, the incidents that took place back to backmade me quite worried. I was very scared at the ways the professionals were behaving as I feltthat their incompatibility in the team may not only fail to meet the entire goals and objectives ofthe multidisciplinary team but would also threaten the life of the patient. I felt confused at thesame time, as I could not understand how to overcome such disastrous situations within themultidisciplinary team member. I could not understand where to start my work, what initiativesto take and how to implement them. The patient was getting affected each day and it made meconcern about her health as well. I was feeling helpless in the situation and for a moment, Ithought to meet the higher authority and handover the responsibility of care coordinator of theteam to any other expert professional. However, I decided that it would be an escapist activityand professionals can never turn away their responsibility towards not only the organisation butalso the health of the patient. I gathered courage and tried to reflect on the activity so that I canunderstand the mistakes in have made and how to overcome the mistakes to ensure proper care topatient.The next stage is the evaluation stage. This stage mainly involves description of the badas well as the good aspects of the incident that had taken place. The worse part of the incidentwas that the health of the patient began was affected due to the various issues that took placeamong the members of the healthcare team. It was seen that the patient had witnessed theargument of the expert that had impacted her mentally and emotionally. Besides the shock of thedisorder that she was experiencing, she also had to witness professionals not providing herrespect and leaving without providing her service. These affected her autonomy and dignity andshe became depressed (Bassot 2015). Moreover, medication error took place and therefore shebecame fearful and was highly anxious about her safety. Although, her health was not harmed, it

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