Gibbs's Reflective Cycle: Case Study on Nursing Practice at University

This assignment applies Gibbs's Reflective Cycle to a nursing case study involving a 26-year-old mother, Elise, and her daughter Violet, who was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism. The essay emphasizes the importance of e-health records in providing optimal patient care. It describes the e-health record's role in preserving patient health details and facilitating access to medical history for healthcare providers. The assignment explores the feelings, values, and beliefs of a nurse accessing the patient care experience, highlighting the potential benefits of e-health records in addressing the challenges faced by Elise and her family. It analyzes the lack of support, medical knowledge, and stress experienced by the family, concluding that e-health records could have provided crucial assistance. The assignment proposes an action plan for developing e-health records, including deployment, interoperability, legal clarity, and standardized patient identifiers. The conclusion reinforces the benefits of e-health records in alleviating stress and improving care management, referencing relevant literature and a figure illustrating Gibbs's reflective cycle. This assignment provides a comprehensive overview of how reflective practice can improve nursing care.

Running head: GIBBS’S REFLECTIVE CYCLE
Gibbs’s reflective cycle
Name of the student
University name
Author’s note

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Introduction
The current assignment focuses on the concept of Gibbs reflection cycle and its
importance in focussing upon the nursing practices adopted within a health care setup. The
assignment takes into consideration the case study of a 26 year old mother Elise and her daughter
violet who was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism within weeks form her birth.
Thesis: The study focuses on the importance of e-health record within and its relevance in
providing optimum care to the patients.
Description
The e-health record focuses on the importance of electronics and technology for
preservation of the important health details of the patients. The e-health records provides for the
provision of the best in class health services by allowing a number of doctors, hospitals and
other health care providers to view the medical history of a patient through online records
(Knight et al. 2014).
Feelings
As a nurse accessing the patient care experience of Elise and Violet I think the
inculcation of an affirmative tool such as the E-health records would have been instrumental in
meeting with the care requirements of the family.
Values/beliefs
Violet was diagnosed with congenital hypothyroidism and had to undertake a huge
number of tests. The blood tests were repeated at an interval of every six months and her parents

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had to travel a lot in order to provide their daughter with the best treatment. Therefore, as a
nursing professional I think the implementation of the policies of informed decision making
would have been helpful in this regard.
Analysis
The lack of support from sufficient medical channels along with least knowledge about
their daughter’s medical condition had been quite stressful for Elise and her husband. Violet had
to undergo the heel pricks test within days of her birth, where her parents had absolutely no clue
about her medical condition. Therefore, the implementation of e-health records would have
helped the distressed family in getting proper help. In my opinion, the e-health record would
have helped in referring to the past test records and design proper care and intervention strategies
for the child. However, as a nursing professional looking after violet and her health records in
need to take care the privacy frameworks are also maintained.
Derived conclusions
The inculcation of the e-health record would have been able to control a lot of mental
stress and worries that the parents of the child Violet had to undergo. The E-health record comes
along with a privacy framework for maintaining the records of the patients safely (Erlingsdottir
et al. 2014). However, as argued by Okamoto et al.(2017), the breach in the framework can put
a tint on the affectivity of the process.
Action plan
An action plan can be developed for the development of e-health records such as –
 Deployment of e-health systems

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 Designing plans for interoperability within different health channels
 Maintaining legal clarity and leadership for effective implementation of e-health
 Development of standards for patient identifiers
Essay conclusion
The assignment emphasizes upon the grievances faced by Elise and her daughter who had
to undergo huge stress and confusion for receiving optimum care and treatment standards. Thus,
the implementation of the e-health records would have provided support and relief for the care
management of the condition of the patient and her family.
Figure1: Gibb’s reflective cycle
(Source: Potter, 2015)

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References
Erlingsdottir, G., Lindholm, C., & Ålander, T. (2014). eHealth services, patient empowerment
and professional accountability-An empirical study on the changing patient-doctor
relationship in the digital world. In International EIASM Public Sector Conference(pp. 1-
21).
Gee, P. M., Greenwood, D. A., Paterniti, D. A., Ward, D., & Miller, L. M. S. (2015). The
eHealth enhanced chronic care model: a theory derivation approach. Journal of medical
Internet research, 17(4).
Knight, A. W., Szucs, C., Dhillon, M., Lembke, T., & Mitchell, C. (2014). The eCollaborative:
using a quality improvement collaborative to implement the National eHealth Record
System in Australian primary care practices. International journal for quality in health
care, 26(4), 411-417.
Okamoto, R., Koide, K., Maura, Y., & Tanaka, M. (2017). Realities of Reflective Practice Skill
among Public Health Nurses in Japan and Related Learning and Lifestyle Factors. Open
Journal of Nursing, 7(05), 513.
Potter, C. (2015). Leadership development: an applied comparison of Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle
and Scharmer’s Theory U. Industrial and Commercial Training, 47(6), 336-342.