Written Reflection (Health Assessment)

Running head: WRITTEN REFLECTION (HEALTH ASSESSMENT)
WRITTEN REFLECTION (HEALTH ASSESSMENT)
Name of the student:
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Situation:
The health assessment practice was conducted up on a scholar colleague in a clinical
laboratory.
Task:
It was conducted to commence a pretended health assessment
Action:
The practice was performed to assess vital signs such as Blood Pressure, Pulse, Temperature,
Oxygen Saturation and Respirations on a scholar colleague.
Result:
Health assessment of the patients comes under the supervision of both the physicians
and nursing staffs. There is some nursing practice in stretched roles where as others are found
to maintain an added old role in the field of acute health care setting. Health care Assessment
of the patients are seen to be varying based on both the role and health care setting (Palmer &
Harmell, 2016).
After assessment, I found out vital signs from the patients which involved Blood
Pressure ranging 128/70, Respiratory Rate which rang 16 per minute, Oxygen Saturation rate
ranging 99%, Heart Beat rate around 86 beats per minute and Body Temperature was around
36.5 Celsius, and I assessed that all the signs that was examined were ranging normal.
The clinical reasoning cycle is found to control all health care specialized and this
especially involves the physicians and the nursing staffs by means of various systematic steps
which is found to involve rational considerations (Hunter & Arthur, 2016). Taking the
clinical reasoning cycle in account simplifies the mind set behind the management plan for

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the patient which allows the health care expert to perform a series of orderly phases, which
thus ultimately leads to a concluding decision which is found to be consider what is
beneficial for the patient’s health in a specific situation (Nightingale, 2016).
The clinical reason cycle phase 3 states, Processing gathered information: it is an
acute stage and also the essential part of the clinical reasoning cycle (Carrier, Levasseur,
Bédard & Desrosiers, 2015). It involves the processing the information regarding the
patient’s present health condition in association to the patients pathophysiological and
pharmacological outlines (Koivisto et al., 2016). Thus it is important to know every details
which are relevant and regulate the potential results from the assessment for promising health
care decisions a health care professional make (Pennaforte et al., 2016). The phase guides the
nursing staffs to assess their patients is an error free and detailed manner (Schuman,
Glidewell & Roehl, 2016). By focusing on the phase, I was able to assess my patients in a
much detailed and accurate way.
During this assessment I found out that there were several weaknesses in my practice
which I needed to improve in order to develop in my field of work and to provide a better
health care service to the patients in need. I didn’t present myself appropriately to the patient
I was assessing which created a communication gap among us and also kept me deprived of
various details that were related to the patient’s health care. Also I need to connect more to
the patients and the health care staffs and I require to be additionally active and increase my
confidence level and skills when responsibility is about assessing the vital signs of a patient.
Learnt:
After practicing the assessment, I have gained a lot of skills and knowledge regarding
my nursing practice and also about an effective health assessment of the patients. I have
learnt the importance of communication in nursing practice in order to provide a better health