Nursing Practice: Reflective Essay on NSQHS Standards & Transition

This essay reflects on the author's transition to professional nursing practice, focusing on experiences related to the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) standards, particularly clinical governance and partnering with consumers. Using Gibbs Reflective Learning Cycle, the author analyzes a situation where they prioritized assisting a healthcare assistant over studying a medication, leading to a discussion on time management and prioritizing patient needs versus professional development. The essay concludes that while time management is crucial, patient welfare should always be the primary concern, and the author would justify their actions if a similar situation arose in the future. The reflection emphasizes the importance of continuous professional development and adherence to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) code of conduct.

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Introduction
In this essay, I will focus my reflection on the National and Quality Health Service
(NSQHS) standards which were formed by Australian Commission on Safety as well Quality in
medication in association with the administration of Australia, states as well as territories,
clinical experts, the private sector, career as well as patients. Firstly, I will tell the main purpose
of the NSQHS standards which are to secure the public domain from damage and to advance the
quality of medical services offered. I realized the NSQHS offer quality assurance technique that
examines whether the genuine systems are used to guarantee that the expected requirements of
safety, as well as quality, are achieved. The National and Quality Health Service has got various
standards that cover high prevalence negative events, healthcare-related infections,
comprehensive care, medication security, clinical conversation, the prevention as well as
management of pressure damages, the protection of falls, as well as reacting to scientific
deterioration. Significantly, the National Safety and Quality Healthcare Service have offered an
internationally consistent description of the standard of care users can get from their medical
service associations (Chang, 2015))
I will use my time in understanding different National Safety and Quality Healthcare
Services which include Clinical governance as well as partnering with consumers. The Clinical
governance is termed for explaining the clinical governance, as well as security and quality
systems which are needed to maintain and advance the reliability, quality of healthcare as well as
safety, and enhance health results for patients. Partnering with consumers which explains the
systems as well as techniques to form a person-centered clinical system by incorporating patients
in common decision making, to guarantee patients are shareholders in their own care as well as
that users are involved in the growth as well as the design of standard of healthcare.

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For the primary purpose of this essay, I will also deploy Gibbs Reflective Learning Cycle
to mirror on the aspect of personal professional exercise, which needs development in an
arrangement for my duty as a certified nurse. Reflective Learning Cycle strengthens a clear
explanation of a situation, study of feelings, evaluation of the practice and study to make sense of
the exercise to test what action you would take if the problem arose again. To continue within the
nursing as well as Midwifery Council (NMC) code of qualified conduct instructions as well as to
maintain privacy the use of places or names will not be practiced all over this essay (Blais,
Hayes, Kozier & Erb 2006).
During the time of placement operating on a general ward in my third year, I was
questioned to carry out a research on a drug I was not sure on my mentor. On my way to study
the medicine, I come across assistant of the health care who asked me if I could help her with a
patient who was sleeping on a couch. I opted to assist the healthcare assistant as reasoned this
was a preference as I could check up the drug at every point in the daytime as it was for personal
learning as well as development and was not crucial. Then after I had assisted the clinical staff
assistant, my mentor questioned if had studied the drug. I told her that I had gone to assist the
clinical assistant and would check on the drug, which then I carried out. My mentor then
informed me that I required to advance on my management of time, as I had not checked on the
drug when she informed me too. She went on telling that when I become a certified nurse I
would require to be aware of drugs and their uses too. This state left me reasoning which was the
preference, the requirements of the patient or my own skillful learning as well as development.
My feeling – I automatically helped the clinical assistant in making the victim satisfied as
I felt that this was the preference over investigating the drug. I recall reasoning that I could
perform this at home if the medical institution became busy. I felt disappointed for not informing

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my mentor on the issue as had reasoned I made an appropriate decision to assist the patient. I
was involved in the patients’ health and I felt could sustain letting the victim lying in the coach
for had studied on a drug. Clinical offers should be capable of justifying the decision they take.
After the matter, being informed by my mentor that I required to advance on the scheduling of
my time skills for I chose to help the clinical offer which contradicted me a little. This exercise
experience made me feel there was a necessity to learn as well as developing more concerning
my management of time tactic (Meleis, 2010). I reasoned I had to know the deep definition of
time management as I assumed my skills were appropriate. From that incident, I started
managing my time correctly and this experience made to rethink how I was pyritizing my labor
force available.
Evaluation – I opted to help the healthcare officer in guaranteeing the patient was safe
and happy and felt favored at that time of need. As an obliged practitioner the NMC countries it
is compulsory to take care of persons as well as respecting their honor which I practiced. I could
know what my teacher was describing to me, that as a certified nurse must be able to know the
purpose of different drugs and their uses. Again, I must be aware of safe as well as effective
exercise when operating without direct control, recognize, and operate within the limits of my
appropriateness. I must also maintain my knowledge as well as skills updated all over my
working life and I must participate in the right learning as well as exercising activities that keep
and grow my competence as well as performance. (Rush, Adamack, Gordon, Lilly, & Janke
2013)
Analysis – as persons, we do come up with the concept of time, although we study about
it, both as the concept as well as a community institution, from small child onwards. The
developed states, the time has been installed around gadgets of measurement like calendars,

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clocks as well as schedules. A research by Waterworth showed the value of nursing exercise
from the point of view of participants, she established that time with victims is significant, but
outputs the question how clinical officers monitor their time.
The significant of time management will force me to some position in my job as a
certified nurse. I will be overrun with work and I will require to evaluate how to schedule my
time appropriately. Time scheduling is a continuous process. It is a continuous operation as well
as conversations between you and your target and facing the dynamic situation. Time
management is equivalent to good preference skills, which means monitoring your time,
choosing upon priorities as well as planning accurately, which can be the difficult knowledge to
achieve. Appropriate time management leads to a reduction of stress as well as an increment in
production.
Conclusion
Time administration is a dynamic procedure and tends to run as an inseparable unit with
great organizing aptitudes. In the event that you can't organize you, will sit around idly and be
wasteful. This can make pressure on yourself and your individual colleagues, and also making
potential mischief your patients. An effective method of arranging your opportunity can be to
utilize the nursing procedure as disclosed in the article to Analyze, Prioritize, and Intervene and
assess.
After my examination into time administration and organizing, I trust that my tutor wasn't
right to scrutinize my opportunity administration aptitudes. I had pondered with the more
prominent need in this circumstance despite everything I trust that the patient was. The patient
would have been in danger from skin abrasion and would have been left awkward and

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undignified. As a Registered Nurse, I will be responsible for my activities and later on, if a
similar circumstance emerged again I feel that I would not do anything unexpected other in
comparison to talk up and legitimize my choices. I recognized and limited hazard to that patient
and as a Registered Nurse, I will hold a place of obligation and other individuals will depend on
me. In spite of the fact that expression this, my needs as a Registered Nurse might be diverse to
those as an understudy nurture and my proceeding with proficient improvement will be critical. I
should make the care of my patients my first worry consistently, regarding them as people and
regarding their pride
Action Plan
With the increment in emphasis on appropriateness as well as effectiveness in health care,
how I control my time will be a significant consideration. Time management is known as an
essential component of job performance as well as nurse operation. As a newly certified nurse, I
will have perfect my time monitoring skills and be capable to prioritize care correctly.
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