Reflective Writing: Unpreparedness Placement Experience and the Effect of COVID-19 on Training as a Student Nurse

Written reflection

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Reflective writing is the part of learning as it aware individual about their experiences
and what they all have learnt with it. It can be said that each and every experience of the
individual directly makes them learn several things which not only develops range of
opportunities in their professional life but at the same it also improves the personal life of the
same person. The present report is the reflective writing practice done by the individual in order
to express his/her own experience associated with unpreparedness placement experience of his
arrival by the department. The reflection would also include that the effect of COVID 19 has
placed influence over the training of the student as the nurse.
MAIN BODY
As being a scholar of the college I got placed in the well known health care institution where
I would going to be practicing for sometime as the student nurse and develop my learning as the
nursing practitioner in the same field. All of the sudden, COVID-19 has started which have
affected almost each and every sector. The major influence of this pandemic disease have been
seen on heath care as the disease is completely new for all whose recovery drug has not been
determined yet. This has directly placed my learning experience too. This is so because, the
respective department in which I was got placed does not to prepare themselves the same
scenario. This have directly affected their overall pattern of training student nurses as the full
focus of the department was now to emphasise on identifying the drug that could contribute a bit
in tackling the disease.
In order to express my own experience related to unpreparedness placement experience
of my arrival by the department and effect of the COVID 19 into my training as a student nurse,
I have made use of Gibbs reflective cycle. The respective framework is acknowledged as the best
one as it includes several stages which one by one express overall experience as well as journey
of the person in the particular situation or event. Gibbs reflective framework was given by sir
Graham Gibbs in the year 1988. It has been initially been expressed in the book named as
“learning by doing”. According to the Gibbs, individual do learns several things from the
experiences and situation by which they goes through. Also, the author have expressed that every
situation does not includes positive experience but at the same time they includes negative
experiences too. It has been further stated that each and every positive as well as negative