Reflection Project: Analyzing Nursing Practice and Development

This reflection project analyzes a nursing student's personal and professional development within the context of clinical practice and the nursing profession. The report explores the application of the NMC Code of Conduct across four branches of nursing, including adult, children's, learning disabilities, and mental health nursing. The student reflects on experiences with diverse patient populations, highlighting the importance of emotional resilience, patient-centered care, and communication. The project uses the Gibbs reflective cycle to evaluate strengths and weaknesses, analyzing the impact of clinical experiences on the student's understanding of patient needs, medication, and the importance of coordination with healthcare teams. The student outlines an action plan focusing on professional development, including training, community involvement, and adherence to the NMC code of conduct to enhance patient care and treatment.

REFLECTION PROJECT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Description.............................................................................................................................1
Feelings...................................................................................................................................2
Evaluation...............................................................................................................................3
Analysis..................................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..............................................................................................................................4
Action plan.............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflection plays an important role in personal development as it helps the person
analysing own strengths and weaknesses (Bell, 2010). This is an analytical practice in which
thoughts, emotions and feelings related with different situations are being evaluated. The report
is focused on evaluating personal development, academic work and clinical practices of nurse.
Further, it ill be focused on professional development of health practitioner across four branches
of nursing in accordance with Nursing midwifery council Code of Conduct.
MAIN BODY
Nursing profession is the core of health care organisation. However, to make the process
and functioning ethical and patient centred, health care organisation follows code of conduct by
nurses and midwifery council 2015. It is to maintain the effectiveness in practices of health
practitioners (Urden, Stacy and Lough, 2017). From practices, I learned that NMC code of
conduct helps in maintaining the responsibility with own beliefs and values. Emotional resilient
is an important characteristic for all nurses, which is improved with the help of reflective writing.
This helps the nurse in developing understanding over own improvement measures as per code
of standards. Emotional intelligence and strong resilience helps the nurse in developing
appropriate behaviour, reasoning and cognitive development of diverse patients. In accordance
with NMC Code of Conduct, nurse is able to prioritize patient requirement which helps the
practitioner in maintaining effectiveness in nursing practices.
Reflection helps the nurse in analysing personal development on the basis of set
objectives which are based four key areas that is adult, children, learning disabilities or mental
health. From the learning, the individuals are able to analyse own strengths and weaknesses
which need to be managed as per NMC code of conduct. This following code of standards helps
the practitioner in developing professionalism towards nursing practices and responsibilities.
Theme 1: Personal development in adult, children, learning disabilities or mental health
nursing
Description
During my practice, I came across the diverse situations and service users in hospital. I
was dealing with different types of patient such as children, students, person suffering from
mental disability and learning disability. I feel that NMC code of conduct is core of nursing
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practices as it helps the individuals in aligning clinical practices as per patient centric approach.
As per my academic learning, I have analysed that medication, safety, recovery and observations
of patient during treatment period is the major area of concern for health care providers. Further,
I feel that personnel requires feedback of patients, support of management and other nursing
staffs during my clinical practices. Negative and positive feedbacks are given by the patients
regarding hospital management and nursing staffs. Positive feedback works as a reward and it is
the matter of concern for me to deal with negative feedback. I used to console the patients with
my caring nature by marinating dignity of patients.
As per NMC Code of Conduct, special skills and techniques are applied to handle the
mental learning of children. Midwives are concerned with health and care of children with their
mother. It is a great experience to handle the children in different ways. I have to deal with
different roles of professionalism like friends, social workers, physiologist, teachers, etc. to make
them understand the learning activities. Further, I feel involving with patient helps in learning
diverse tasks and activities with regard to patients and their medication. Family members of the
patients seem to be stressed. Apparently, according to NMC Code of Conduct, it is our oral duty
to provide emotional support to patient family and immediate guardians. All the patients are
taught to develop their personal activities and behaviour so that they can understand and express
their feelings to others. Thus, as per involvement in clinical practices, I analysed that it is
necessary to maintain a trustworthy relationship with patients.
Feelings
I choose to nurse as profession because it is most satisfactory profession, where I will be
able to deal with diverse patients on regular basis. Analysing holistic needs of patient and
providing treatment is the condition which assist me in gaining satisfaction over my profession.
Sometimes, it was annoying to deal with patients but my morality never allowed me to ignore
my duties towards patients. It is a great experience to deal with diverse patients because it helps
in learning various new things which are beneficial for professional development. Further, I feel
loving and caring is necessary support which is given by nurses to service users. With
involvement in nursing practices, I feel service users get internally weak due to arrogant
response of health practitioners. I enjoy my work because serving patients motivates me for
implementing unique steps to deal with service users. Support of management team and other
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nursing staffs give me strength to do my job with dignity and honour. Overall, it is a good
experience to be a nurse because this taught me the essence of humanity and well-being.
Illustration 1: Gibbs' reflective cycle
(Source: GIBBS' REFLECTIVE CYCLE, 2018)
Evaluation
During my practice time, I had lots of good and bad experiences that made me learn a lot
of things. While practicing, I analysed that it is necessary for the nurses to ensure physical and
emotional support to patient across all four branches of nursing. In addition, I evaluated that
patients are vulnerable for medication and therefore, it is essential for the nurse to protect interest
of service users when enabling medication. BY involving with diverse patient I got to know that
it is necesatuy for the nurse to have emotional control when enable treatment and medication to
patients. (Christopher and Solomon, 2018). My beliefs and values over communication with all
group of people are based on soft voice and use of appropriate words which help in promoting
the sense of living in physically and mentally challenged service users. However, learning from
different health care situations, I understood that communication with service users plays a vital
role in managing effectiveness in health care services. According to NMC Code of Conduct, I
learned that patient centred care and quality of work services are the base of health organisation.
Further, I feel coordinating with colleagues and social care service providers is also an
essential part of nursing practices, as it helps the individuals in understanding holistic needs of
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diverse patients (Baldwin, 2016). In addition, with the help of module, I came across various
responsibilities of nurses which are required to be followed for patient centric care in four
branches of nursing. Apparently, in my opinion, development of professional nurse is based on
practices and involvement with different types of patients.
Analysis
As per Christopher and Solomon, 2018, I analysed that treating patients with kindness
and respect is the foremost responsibility of nurse which helps in professional development.
Further, from the standards of NMC, I analysed that working in partnership with colleagues
helps in delivering effective care services. Coordination with health practitioners assist the nurse
in analysing additional needs of diverse patients. Likewise, according to Moran, Burson and
Conrad 2016, it has been identified that encouraging and empowering people in health care is the
code of conduct of NMC which helps in making shared decisions. Moreover, as per NMC Code
of Conduct, I focus on my professional development where I evaluated about balancing needs of
patients in case when service users act vulnerable and deny for medication and treatment. During
professional development, I realized that involving in clinical practices by seeking help form
academic learning and sources helps the nurse in managing effectiveness in care services.
Conclusion
From above discussion and analysis, I analysed the importance of refection writing for
professional development which helps nurse in analysing own strengths and weaknesses.
Apparently, from the discussion, I would like to outline that following code of standards by
NMC is the core of maintaining discipline in nursing practices. Further, from the study, I derived
the need of further changes in my practices and development. I identified that it is necessary for
me to focus on practising with diverse people in health care organisation. Diversity plays a vital
role in care practices because the four branches of nursing care are completely different from
each other, where nurse is responsible for managing service users according to their various
holistic needs.
Action plan
The development of health and social care will be my first action plan. Lots of people are
suffering from these types of situations but there is no one to care about them. With the
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involvement I realized that community care and support nurses also plays an important role for
health care organisation and therefore, now I will be focusing on involving in training for
proving personal care to physically or mentally challenged. I will focus on involving different
kinds of patients on regular basis which will help me in practising NMC code of conduct and
will aid in developing familiarity with diverse patients and their care needs. Moreover, I will
participate in training session of health care organisation to analyse the views of different
professionals and practitioners over different health care situations. With the help of these
funding agencies, I would like to enhance the facilities and medical treatment for these patients.
Welfare societies will be established by using all NMC Code of Conduct where patients can
recover their health conditions.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ashley, J. and Stamp, K., 2014. Learning to think like a nurse: The development of clinical
judgment in nursing students. Journal of Nursing Education, 53(9), pp.519-525.
Baldwin, M., 2016. Social work, critical reflection and the learning organization. Routledge.
Bell, S., 2010. Project-based learning for the 21st century: Skills for the future. The Clearing
House. 83(2). pp.39-43.
Christopher, E. and Solomon, H. M., 2018. Introduction. In Contemporary Jungian Clinical
Practice (pp. 3-14). Routledge.
Moran, K. J., Burson, R. and Conrad, D., 2016. The doctor of nursing practice scholarly project.
Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
Schön, D. A., 2017. The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action. Routledge.
Tiwaken, S. U., Caranto, L. C. and David, J. J. T ., 2015. The real world: lived experiences of
student nurses during clinical practice. International Journal of Nursing Science. 5(2).
pp.66-75.
Urden, L. D., Stacy, K. M. and Lough, M. E., 2017. Critical Care Nursing-E-Book: Diagnosis
and Management. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Urden, L. D., Stacy, K. M. and Lough, M. E., 2017. Critical Care Nursing-E-Book: Diagnosis
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