Nursing Standards Reflection

Standard 2: Engages in therapeutic and professional relationships Therapeutic and professional relationships are basically relationships built on respect and trust, nurturing of hope and faith and most importantly helping with the fulfillment of the physical, spiritual and emotional needs of one’s patients using one’s skills and knowledge. I believe that by virtue of being empathetic with my patients’ situations and helping them recover physically, emotionally and spiritually by cultivating healthy relationships with them, I meet this standard. Standard 3: Maintains the capability for practice Nurses should demonstrate their capability for practice by being professional, practicing safety and investing in continuous self-improvement and management while also being able to respond to any issues and concerns arising within the practice. Nurses demonstrate meeting this standard through such ways as providing the necessary information required for the people to have control over their health; seeking and responding to review and feedback on practice; engaging actively with the practice; investing in continuous self-development.

As a nursing professional, I demonstrate meeting this standard by providing education and information to the people to equip them with what it takes to make conscious decisions relating to their health. Standard 7: Evaluates outcomes to inform nursing practice Nurses should be responsible for the evaluation of practice with regards to the agreed upon goals, priorities, plans, and outcomes. They should also be able to revise the practice accordingly. They demonstrate meeting this standard by being able to evaluate and monitor progress with regards to the expected outcomes and set goals; revising the practice based on the outcome of the evaluation; determining, documenting and communicating further goals, outcomes and priorities to all the involved parties. I meet this standard by being able to identify shortcomings in the current practice and giving suggestions on how they can be done away with.

Nursing Reflections Using Gibbs Cycle Scenario 1 Description of the event: During my last clinical placement I got to encounter a patient that was unlike any other patients that I have interacted with in the past. Evaluation: when dealing with young children who cannot express themselves, parents or other adults accompanying them to the hospital visits are the only links between the healthcare giver and the patient as pertains to access to information on the patient’s health state. Communication with the parent not only avails important information to the healthcare giver but also ensures that they are fully aware of their child’s condition and treatment plan. As such, it is important to ensure that this communication channel remains open. Analysis: This experience taught me the need to be proactive and creative.

While there are guidelines on how different situations should be handled, sometimes there are unique situations such as the one described in this experience that requires one to be creative enough to devise ways to move past the existing barriers. Feelings: I was shocked to see the doctor start to attend to my patient without disinfecting his hands first because I expected that he would know that it was extremely wrong. I couldn’t talk to him about it in the presence of the patient, and I, therefore, had to wait until later to address the issue. I was worried that he wouldn’t take it well coming from me, so I asked my mentor to talk to him instead. He said that forgotten to clean his hands due to his busy schedule and assured my mentor that it wouldn’t happen again.