Bachelor of Nursing: Reflection on Person-Centered Care Experience

This document is a reflective paper by a Bachelor of Nursing student, detailing their experiences and insights gained from learning about person-centered care. The reflection covers the student's feelings, evaluations, and analysis of their learning journey, including the importance of individualized patient care, clinical reasoning, and holistic approaches. The student discusses their increased confidence in nursing concepts, identifies areas for improvement, and outlines an action plan to enhance their practical skills. The paper also explores the philosophy of nursing, emphasizing the significance of therapeutic relationships and respect for patients. References support the student's understanding of person-centered care and its practical application in various healthcare settings. The student highlights the importance of respecting patients and providing holistic care.

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Table of Contents
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................2
Description...................................................................................................................................2
Feelings........................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation....................................................................................................................................2
Analysis.......................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................3
Action plan...................................................................................................................................4
Evidence and practice......................................................................................................................4
Philosophy of nursing......................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Reflection
Description
The daily work of care giving to different patients is a very complex process as not all of
the patients require the same type of care. The doctors and the nurses provide care which are
individualized to the patients, fulfilling the care required specifically to the patients. The doctors
and the nurse do this by carefully examining the medical conditions of the patients. This type of
care giving approaches is called person centered care. I have learnt in details about the person
centered care
Feelings
Before this experience I was not concerned about the person centered care much but after
the weeks 5, 6 and 7 of the online tutorial my knowledge about the person centered care
increased a lot. In the week 5, it was a good experience for me to know about the person centered
care and the clinical reasoning cycle. In the sixth week, the wrong knowledge about nursing all
dissipated away and the critical thinking as well as the holistic care approaches of the nursing
had earned more importance. Finally, at the end of the 7 week, I started feeling much confident
about the concepts of nursing (Mitchell & Agnelli, 2015).
Evaluation
On evaluation of the whole experience, it can be said that it was really a very good
opportunity for me to learn about the different concepts of nursing in details. The most important
and valuable thing that I learnt from these is that nothing should be assumed about the people
who are taking care of the patients by unnecessarily creating issues on the different processes of
assessments and also it is very much necessary to oversee the other different information which

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are creating health problems (Newman et al., 2015). This can lead to wrong treatment of the
patient and also the person may never get recovered. The next important think which I have
learnt from this experiment is that we have to provide holistic approach while providing care to
the patient, like a patient may not get proper treatment because of the limited services or because
of the limited financial availability (Sharp, McAllister & Broadbent, 2016). Next, the important
thing that I learnt from these concept is that the nurse must show proper respect and adequate
dignity at all times. Until and unless the nurse show the patient proper respect, the patients will
also not listen to the nurses. The nurses should understand the needs of the patients and must
provide the treatments accordingly.
Analysis
After the analysis of the learning experiences were done I found that practicing the
clinical scenarios in small groups and reflecting upon them have eased my learning strategies.
These has helped me a lot to think critically about everything and now I can make valid clinical
reasoning.
Conclusion
This experience no doubt have increased my knowledge about the person centered care
approaches and the reasons for providing the person centered care to the patients. Not all persons
require the same types of care, so it is very important to identify the needs of different patients
and thus provide the care accordingly (Gabrielsson, Sävenstedt & Zingmark, 2015). My
confidence level have increased a lot after this experience was over and in future I will be able to
take care patients according to their medicinal and emotional requirements. Apart from the
strengths, still I am weak in practically taking care of the patients. I will be able to cope up with
this in the near future.

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Action plan
In the near future I need be much more confident and reduce my fear in practically taking
care of the patients suffering from critical illness. In order to reduce my fear, I need to study
much more about the different ways of reducing the fear of doing the practical nursing works
involving person centered care.
Evidence and practice
The learning activities were done by involving proper and appropriate evidences and
practices. Not only the learning was done but also practical experiments were done involving
critical patients who were suffering from severe disease complexions. Efficient guidance was
provided to us for providing the person centered care so that they are not provided with wrong
treatments (Roberts et al., 2015). Patients suffering from different types of complexions were
involved in order to increase our knowledge about the different treatment procedures needed for
different diseases.
Philosophy of nursing
The nursing philosophy is nothing but a statement, sometimes the statements are written
which declares the beliefs of nursing, the nursing values and the nursing ethics about the care
and treatment of the patients. After reflecting on the time of the nursing student, I have learnt,
that the basic principle of providing person centered care is effective therapeutic relationship
(Wyder et al., 2015). Treating the patients in a holistic way helps in making the patients feel
more valued and more secured.

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References
Gabrielsson, S., Sävenstedt, S., & Zingmark, K. (2015). Person‐centred care: clarifying the
concept in the context of inpatient psychiatry. Scandinavian journal of caring
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Mitchell, G., & Agnelli, J. (2015). Person-centred care for people with dementia: Kitwood
reconsidered. Nursing Standard (2014+), 30(7), 46.
Newman, D., O'Reilly, P., Lee, S. H., & Kennedy, C. (2015). Mental health service users'
experiences of mental health care: an integrative literature review. Journal of psychiatric
and mental health nursing, 22(3), 171-182.
Roberts, G., Morley, C., Walters, W., Malta, S., & Doyle, C. (2015). Caring for people with
dementia in residential aged care: Successes with a composite person-centered care
model featuring Montessori-based activities. Geriatric Nursing, 36(2), 106-110.
Sharp, S., McAllister, M., & Broadbent, M. (2016). The vital blend of clinical competence and
compassion: How patients experience person-centred care. Contemporary nurse, 52(2-3),
300-312.
Wyder, M., Bland, R., Blythe, A., Matarasso, B., & Crompton, D. (2015). Therapeutic
relationships and i nvoluntary t reatment o rders: Service users' interactions with health‐
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