Reflection on Nursing Leadership

Running head: REFLECTION ON NURSING LEADERSHIP 1
Reflection on Nursing Leadership
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REFLECTION ON NURSING LEADERSHIP
Introduction
In this essay, I will be reflecting on my encounter with a service user in the healthcare
context. I will be using the Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle in this reflection. Reflection linked to
acquiring knowledge and skills from leadership experience. The style of leadership I will be
reflecting on is a shared leadership with my fellow nurses when caring for our elderly patient
because it ensures that each nurse can generated ideas that help effectively intervene or the
patient(Cummings et al, 2010). This is perceived as a significant method for professional
embracing lifelong learning. Generally, reflective practice is a learning process via which we
learn through and from an activity or experience thereby gaining novel understanding of practice
and self.
This approach is perceived as a means of promoting development personally and
professionally of self-reliant and competent professional, ultimately inspiring both personal and
professional growth. Six stage used by Gibbs Model allows me as a reflector to think through
each phase of experience or activity. The mode remains distinct since it encompass knowledge,
emotions, actions and proposes that experience remain recurrent that differs from the model
proposed by Kolb and hence Gibbs’ cycle is broader and a supple method to examine a scenario
in a critically to inform upcoming adjustments.
Description:
The scenario I am reflecting on took place while I was placed on oncology ward in the
course of 1st year of qualified nursing. I was assigned alongside other nurses to care for elderly
patient on our ward after his admission because of ulcer. I was assigned to lead the team in
caring for this patient. I studied the patient’s notes and realized he had substantial learning

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disability, implying that he could not verbally communicate (Burgio, Allen-Burge, Stevens,
Davis & Marson, 2018). I will reflect on key areas as how myself alongside teammates under
my shared leadership, applied therapeutic communication and calmed our patient by being
compassionate and empathetic. I will also reflect on how our team of nurses adapted our care to
tackle his individual need. The problem arose when one of our teammate entered the ward
alongside 3 public members to view the ward to advertise a job. As they got into patient bay, the
nurse told the remaining the three people that patients in the bay were undergoing radiotherapy.
Our elderly patient became distressed upon hearing the nurse words, and started crying, hitting
and shrieking his head backwards against the pillow. Through my instructions, I took leadership
and instructed one nurse to talk to him each time I was reminding her to sooth the patient. It took
some time and the patient was calmed.
Feelings
Before the occurrence of the incidence, I was really watchful that one of our teammate
was showing the people around our oncology ward as a job advertisement process. When the
event ensued, I had solely been employed on this ward for half a year. Thus, I was still feeling
unsure of the leadership position I held within our team. Eventually, I never felt confident or
even experienced sufficiently to deal with such a scenario indecently. I believe my surged
anxiety level implied that I batted to intervene, nonetheless, it is still apparent that both my
teammates and I needed to have helped faster to make sure that our patient was effectively
helped. Furthermore, I was extremely astonished as one of our nurses failed to consider each
patient’s needs of the patient during ward visit, because the distress caused to the patient and the
public members was extremely not necessary.
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