Table of Contents 1. Content and details of the situation.........................................................................................3 2. My thoughts, feelings and concerns about..............................................................................3 3. Identified areas for professional development as a student of nursing into nursing career....3 4. Impact on my future career as a nursing.................................................................................4
1. Content and details of the situation. As a nursing student, I was involved in participating to take care of a lady patient who was above 60 years in age and was suffering from last stage of breast cancer. This patient was hospitalised and I was involved in taking care of her. She was feeling very helpless and was aware about her conditions and deterioration in health. The only last wish of her was to take proper shower because she was not feeling comfortable. But after that shower she was lying in her bed unconsciously where it was declared that she is no more. 2. My thoughts, feelings and concerns about. While taking care of such patient, I was touched emotionally and I experienced a grief. When I communicated with that lady patient, then for few hours I forget the professionalism and involved in fulfilling her wish because she has become very close to my heart. After giving her shower, she was so grateful and happy as if this was her last wish. The way she hold my hand and thanked me has made me highly emotional and I felt like I am actually serving someone who is very happy with my services and care. At that moment, I thought to take proper and real care for this lady till I can. The smile which I saw on her face was actually providing me recognition that my patient is happy with my care. 3. Identified areas for professional development as a student of nursing into nursing career. With this, I am able to concentrate on professional development as a nursing student. By taking care of that lady I realised that getting emotionally touched and understanding the need of the patients is also one of the basic aspect of professional development. It helps in staying updated with the needs and requirements of the patients, healthcare trends, treatments and techniques. This further made me involved in building and developing quality health care teams and communities through which the patients can be served in a more better and effective way. The elderly patients are very moody and may or may not wish to gets treated through different nurses. So in this, I find this area which needs to be improved through professional development where I learned that it is very important to know the manner in which these elderly people are responding, learning their demands and fulfilling them as per their wish is one of the major source of their improvement. The another major factor which needs to be learned is being on time because elderly people requires everything on proper time, from their medicines to their food and sleep. This enhances the punctuality factor because being punctual will help in recovery
of the patient health rapidly. The another main area of professional development will put focus on being strict as well. No matter calmness and love is the best ingredient for improving patients health but sometime, patients takes it for granted and this needs to be controlled with strict nature where patients will be required to follow each and every guideline which is set by the hospital and nurses. The informal relation which establishes between the patient and nurse must not hamper their health by taking things for granted. 4. Impact on my future career as a nursing. By attending this patient, it has left me with no words and has created positive impact on my life and future career as a nursing. When the lady died I was emotionally touched but later I realised that life goes on and also our existence is uncertain. Being professionally involved in nursing career, I will have to deal with such incidents more often so I cannot get touched with each and every patients. This incident has made me more confident and stronger in future actions of my work. I can now deal with all age group patients. In future, I can apply or use different strategies and techniques as I have learned different type of experience of handling a patient by treating and taking care of this old lady. Furthermore, in future I will participate in different nursing programs where I will further gain more knowledge and experience. The nursing job has no end of learning and they need to learn regularly in order to keep themselves updated. I will have immense flexibility in my work and profession which will help in overall growth and development of myself as a career in nursing.