Reflective Analysis on Critical Incident in Healthcare

Reflection

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................1
Description.............................................................................................................................1
Feeling....................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................2
Analysis..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................3
Action plan.............................................................................................................................4
ACTION PLAN.........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Reflection is being regarded as an essential section of the activity of practitioner
because it aims in stimulating the professional for making improvement in the skills as well
as abilities and learning the ways of dealing with the complex conditions. Further, when the
reflection is being applied, the practitioners become more knowledgeable along with self-
assured of their capabilities. In addition to this, the reflective person is also open towards any
sort of interaction in the manner of attaining the best possible solution for the patients
(Freeman and et.al, 2014). Moreover, critical thinking is being regarded as an inseparable
section of the reflective practice. Considering this, the main aim of the current paper is to
reflect on the critical incident which has been occurred while working in the hospital. It will
be going to throw light on one of the incidents that took place wherein two of my colleagues
neglected the rules of hand hygiene. This incident involved an element of safeguarding or the
area of practice like, duty of care. For reflecting the critical incident Gibb’s reflective cycle
model will be utilized. It included six different stages such as description, feeling, evaluation,
analysis, conclusion and action plan. This model will be applied while describing the
reflection on the mentioned incident.
MAIN BODY
Description
I have noticed at my workplace where I am a head nurse that two of my colleagues
most of the time neglects the rules in regards with the hand hygiene. They did not always
wash their hands and even change their gloves when shifting from one kind of a work or a
patient to another kind of work or patient. Many a times, I have also observed that they both
have disrespected the hygiene needs due to the absence of time. For illustration, when there
was a patient delivered by an ambulance and there was not time left for changing the gloves
and washing hands as the life of the patient was in danger and each and every second was
very crucial because it was the critical case. Nevertheless, frequently such type of disregard
happened even when there was not such emergency case. For example, they even not washed
their hands after using bathroom. Soon, after carefully evaluating their patterns of work and
habits, I made a decision to let the in-charge of the department acknowledge in relation with
this situation (Eaton, 2016). Even I also warned my colleagues and asked them to remain
more accountable. Because of my resolution, they got the time to understand their blunders
and faults prior being invited by the in-charge of the department in his office. The in charge
called them and asked them to explain their behaviour. I was also present there and I asked
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