Reflective Nursing Assignment Using Gibbs' Reflection Cycle

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
REFLECTIVE NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

1NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Gibb’s reflection cycle is the model using which people reflect on the situations which
led them learn important lessons which they could not learn in their normal life. There are six
steps of the reflective cycle such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, and conclusion
and action plan through which clinical experience of any particular situation could be explained
that affected the learnings of the person positively or negatively (Potter, 2015). In my clinical
practice unit, I was asked to provide my patient with oral medication. I will be, therefore, using
Gibb’s Reflection cycle to explain my experience about clinical practice unit in the following
section.
Drug administration is one of the major and crucial parts of the nursing profession. After
the drug prescription and dispersions done by the pharmacist, it is the primary duty of the
nursing professionals to provide the patients with correct drug so that quality care could be
provided. While undertaking the CPU, all the student nurses were asked to form group and each
group member was asked to chose one of the drug administration route for their CPU. In this
situation, I was observing each of my members CPU practice and was observing their drug
administration techniques and their hygiene level. Most of the student nurses were following the
five stages of drug administration, however few of them were lacking in few important steps.
Sophie missed her hygiene steps whereas Sarah forgot to count the dose of medication dose.
While observing the situation, and continuing with my CPU, I was very confident and I
was continuously observing all of the steps and stages of oral drug administration. With every
student performing his or her CPU, I was becoming more confident and positive and was
thinking that I will be able to perform my CPU properly without any mistakes. I was
continuously repeating the steps of oral drug administration, patient identification and labeling