Person-Centered Care: A Student Nurse's Reflective Learning Essay

This essay presents a nursing student's reflection on learning and applying person-centered care, utilizing the Gibbs reflective model to analyze the experience of training a junior colleague. The reflection covers various aspects, including the importance of communication skills, needs assessment, collaborative working, and ethical considerations in delivering quality care. The student discusses their feelings, evaluates the learning process, and analyzes the proficiency of nursing practices. The essay concludes with an action plan for future learning scenarios, emphasizing the need for improved communication, collaborative efforts, and a deeper understanding of ethical responsibilities to enhance patient care. The student emphasizes the value of continuous learning and adaptation to provide the best possible person-centered care.

Student Reflection on
an Episode of Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Person centred care includes the delivery of healthcare services to individual through taking
them as the centre of the care services. This is the one in which healthcare professional need to
provide respectful and responsive care to fulfil client needs. In this, there is need to learn about
the effective response towards the delivery of care service which includes better learning about
delivery of person centred care services. In this, there is discussion about the delivery of learning
about person centred care services for future nursing staff (Denise and et. al., 2022).
MAIN BODY
It is essential to take care about every activity which are performed by the patient. I have
provided learning to my junior about effective delivery of person centred care. through using the
Gibbs reflective model, it can allow to demonstrate more effective about what has happened
during that time (van Leeuwen and et. al., 2018).
Description- I needed to delivery proper learning to my junior which includes the person
centred care. Here, I have guided him to improve the communication skill which can play an
important role in delivery of better and effective response towards the delivery of healthcare
services which includes the episode of care in which patient is provided entire treatment for the
illness. I have also included the understanding and benefits of assessing needs and planning care
which is highly effective during delivery of person centred care. In this, it is also need to take
care about the evaluating care needs which can help to deliver better care services to patient.
Here, I have also provided learning about collaborative working which enable me to provide
learning to junior about the service deliver with collaborating with other healthcare
professionals. I also provide to access the use of the quality of care that can help in getting better
service delivery (Andersson and et. al., 2022).
Feelings- I have felt that there is need to provide better learning to my junior which can
help in getting better understanding about the care services which are associated with delivery of
person centred care. I also felt that verbal and nonverbal communication learning can enable my
junior to communicate effectively during collaborative service delivery and ensure about proper
care. After getting proper learning I also get the feedback from the my junior about their learning
which enable me to understand that I have provided effective learning to my junior where I

realise about proper delivery of care which can help my junior to deliver quality care services
during delivery of person centred care (Bradd and et. al., 2018).
Evaluation- I think, I have provided enough basis leaning which can enable my junior to
perform well and delivery of better care service to improve patient health. Learning about
collaborative working has gone well where my junior effectively able to use the communication
skill which help to get better care about the patient. While providing learning there were some
factor which create hindrance in delivery of learning to my junior. This create the situation of
getting better and effective response towards proper care. I have evaluated that episode of care
include different learning which help to improve the better understanding to learning about
patient centred care.
Analysis- I have taken about the proficiency of nursing which enable to deliver proper
care to patient. It enables me to provide proper ethical learning which can help to get better care
about the effective learning. Here, I also provide the learning about the assessment planning
implementation and evaluation of care (Radbron and et. al., 2021).
Conclusion- I have learned many things while delivering learning to my junior. Here, I
needed to get better care and use of the ethical responsibility through following the legislation, it
allows to provide better care services to patient for their better health. I have also concluded that
there is need to improve the communication skills and collaborative working that can assist my
junior to use those in practice during delivery of person centered care.
Action plan- In future, if I need to provide such of learning to other individual, I will make
more easy to learn. I will use my proper information about the person centered care which can
help to improve the learning and help to associate more appropriately with the learner that can
enable to improve the learning and service delivery during person centered care (Springer and et.
al., 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can conclude that it is need to ensure about taking in
consideration about effective communication and collaborative working while delivery of person
centered care. This can be helpful to improve the quality of care. It helps to improve the service
delivery in person centered care to improve patient health.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Denise, E., Moroney, T. and Wilson, V., 2022. Clinical supervision: A mechanism to support
person‐centred practice? An integrative review of the literature. Journal of Clinical
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Radbron, E., Anker-Hansen, C., Rennie, K., McCance, T., McCormack, B. and Dewing, J., 2021.
Adopting a Person-Centred Approach in Doctoral Supervision. In Person-centred
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van Leeuwen, R. and Jukema, J.S., 2018. The perceived learning experiences of undergraduate
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