Reflective Essay - Paramedic Emergency Clinical Placement
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Reflective essay on paramedic emergency clinical placement 1Module Title:Module Code:Student Number:Reflective essay on paramedic emergency clinical placement Module Leader Name:Exact Word Count: 4006 words Submission Date:Reflective essay on paramedic emergency clinical placement
Reflective essay on paramedic emergency clinical placement 21. Introduction: I am a paramedic registered with the council of health professions. In this particularessay, I have reflected on an event that occurred during my clinical practice. I will reflecton the moral, ethical, and legal aspects of the event. I will enumerate the thoughts Ihave about my response to the incident. I will look at these afore-said aspects in thecontext of pre-hospital care that I faced during this particular emergency. My intent ofwriting this essay clearly lies in the exploration of the reflective practice that is inevitablein the paramedic clinical practice. I believe the process of reflective writing is an art anda scientific technique [1, 2]. This specific essay is based on an event that occurredduring my clinical placement. I consider this event of specific importance. This eventdisturbed me in more ways than one and invoked much thought about the nuances ofemergency care for patients. I am employed as a rapid response paramedic and I workalone. I am usually dispatched as a solo resource to emergency situations without anambulance back-up. I respond to emergency calls on 999 service and need to attendlife threatening emergency calls during my duty tours. I have followed the Gibbs modelof reflective writing [2]. The Gibbs model is a crucial tool used in the reflection ofsignificant events in various professions. This, as a tool, is gaining immense popularityin various fields including health care, education, law, leadership etc [2, 3]. The intentionof the process of reflection is to invoke thought about the events that they holdsignificant and that they wish to reflect upon [3]. Paramedic professionals generally takeadvantage of this process in order to reflect on important events that they encounterduring their clinical placement or practice and utilise the reflective thoughts that theyhave to change their approach to patient care [2, 3]. Thus, overall, it is a continuous
Reflective essay on paramedic emergency clinical placement 3process of self-development. The practice of Gibbs reflection has rapidly burgeoned inthe recent years and has been used extensively in paramedic and nursing industries [3].However, the specific meaning of reflective practice varies significantly among thedifferent fields [3]. The differences in the definition of reflective practice are immenseand they can found within the same area of operation as well [2, 3]. We have achieveda certain extent of consensus recently where the concept of reflective practice has beenjudged as a tool for personal development [3, 4]. The practice of reflection essentiallyfocuses on examining the common assumptions and routines that are adapted ineveryday practice [4]. The reflective practice and writing urges the practitioner inquestion to mull over different aspects and nuances of the specific event [3, 4]. It isessential to reflect over the goings-on of the everyday practice and contemplate thepositives and the negatives of that situation [3, 4]. Specifically in emergency care, it isvery crucial to realise the ethical and emotional aspects as well. As a paramedic onclinical placement and a solo resource, I have been faced with one too many suchsituations that lead to dilemma of functionality [4]. Reflective practice primarily aims toenrich the self-awareness protocol of the individual and provides an empowerment tothem to behave differently in the future [3, 4]. They get to relive the moments of theexperience and enumerate the thoughts and feelings that they experienced at the timeof the event. This would in turn lead to the crucial experience of reliving the feelings thatthe event made him/her experience [4]. I believe that in emergency care, an individualexperiences several moments of exhilaration and overwhelming panic [3, 4]. Aparamedic goes through a plethora of emotions and anxiety whilst working on anemergency call [3, 4]. These thoughts, when reflected, lead to inevitable personal
Reflective essay on paramedic emergency clinical placement 4development [4]. A practitioner is also expected to analyse the situation and the goings-on [3, 4]. They need to think about the aspects that they would change in the future [4].There is, however, much debate about what the practitioner should ideally focus on –his/her personal reflections or a broad perspective that touches upon the entire medicolegal, societal, and medical aspects [4]. The contention of reflective writing is what playsa crucial stance in providing integrity and validity to the document [3, 4]. The practitionerin fact validates his/her document by choosing the appropriate event and instance ofreflection [4, 5]. The reflection then greatly focuses on the appropriateness of the eventand the nuances of personality development [3, 4]. The reflection would have to focusupon the expanse of its appropriateness by reflecting on the practicality of thesuggestions it makes [4, 5]. More often than not, most of the suggestions made in thereflection may turn out to be hard to incorporate into the existing health care system [3,4]. The definition of reflective analysis thus differs from one area of operation to another[2, 4]. Certain fields tend to interpret it as a solo reflection of introspective thoughtswhilst another might prefer to initiate discussion on a larger forum [3, 4]. Then again, itlargely depends on how much of it is practically applicable [4]. In more ways than one,reflective thinking is a specialised form of thinking, as defined in research [6]. It hasbeen deemed to be derived from self-doubt, hesitation, and sometimes remorse overthe protocols of patient care [4, 5]. It finds its origin in reflection of perplexity that thepractitioner might have faced in the said event [5, 6]. In the health care emergencysector, specifically, reflective practice is of much importance [5, 6]. Most of the times,we come across situations that lead to perplexity and get one thinking on the measuresthat were taken towards patient care [5, 6]. Many practitioners in the emergency health
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