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Running head: REFLECTION USING GIBB’S CYCLEREFLECTION USING GIBB’S CYCLEName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:

1REFLECTION USING GIBB’S CYCLEGibb’s reflection cycle is a famous reflection framework which was established by Gibb in theyear 1988 (Husebø, O'Reg & Nestel, 2015). It helps an individual to think systematically andreflect about the different phases of the experience or the task that she had undertaken andthereby help herself to develop the correct ways by which such situations should be handled inthe future (Tesh & Kautz, 2017). During my placement in the old aged care, I had faced anadverse situation, which I need to reflect so that I never have to go through such situation in thefuture.Description:While I was working in the old aged care, I had faced a critical situation. A patient 78 years oldwas admitted to the care after his issue of dementia surfaced. Due to absence of proper carer athome, his family had admitted him to the aged care for proper nursing interventions andmaintaining his daily activities of life properly. As he was in his initial stage of dementia, he wasnot totally forgetful although he had some frequent bouts of forgetfulness sometimes in the day.The main concern was that he had very poor mobility due to his arthritic status which hadexposed him to high risk of fall. However he often used to forget about his loss of mobility andtended to walk down on the floor form his bed. Although I tried to make him understand abouthis condition, he often used to forget about it and tried to walk once I nearly saved him fromfalling. After many such incidences, I kept him physically restrained to his bed. To this, hecomplained to his family members and also to the senior nurse that his autonomy and dignitywas not maintained by me.Feelings:

2REFLECTION USING GIBB’S CYCLEAfter conducting the fall risk assessment test, I realized that he had a high level of risk for falland hence my primary concern was to reduce his chances of fall. The moment I was away fromhis sight, he was trying to come down from bed. I was feeling that as a nurse, my primary aimshould be maintaining a safe practice for the patient as per the nursing principles of codes ofconduct and codes of ethics. I felt that I should follow the principle of beneficence which paidimportance to providing safe care to patient above anything else. Seeing no other alternative asper the situation, I felt that physical restraint would be the safest option to prevent him from falland thereby applied it.Evaluation:The bad aspect of the experience was that I was considered unethical not only by the patient butalso by his family members and they also filed a legal case against me. This affected my careerand also my self confidence and self image. I felt bad as my purpose for the act was not assessedbut I was held guilty for my conduct. The good aspect was that in my internship phase only, Ifaced a very critical situation which helped me to develop an idea of the challenges that I will befacing in my professional life. I already was a facing a situation of ethical dilemma which manynurses complain of during their professional years therefore the good thing was that I got a tasteof such situation and therefore from the next time, I would be highly careful and provide correctlogical reasoning and proper evidence based care practice for such critical patients. I also noticedthat as I had kept him restrained to bed, his self respect was hurt. He became depressed and nolonger communicated with me as he felt that tried to bind him because he was unable to take careof himself. This feeling made his lose his self confidence. He became depressive as he developedthe thinking that he was no longer independent. Moreover, he tried to break free from therestraints a number of times which left him with bruises. I harmed the patient’s dignity and

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