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During the first week of our new nurses in a surgical ward, I was supervising one of the supernumerary nurses. We were looking after a thirty-nine year old woman, Ms LC, who had undergone a laparoscopic peritonectomy. We had to start her on a negative pressure wound therapy dressing or NPWT; as suggested by wound clinical nurse consultant and the doctors during their ward round, since this would allow the fast healing of her wound.

THE IMPORTANCE OF REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE This essay will discuss the Importance of Reflective Practice within the health & social care. It will look at why using frameworks models such as (Gibbs 1988) can attribute to professional development and how new important recommendations on Reflection and Reflective Practice from Governing Bodies such as the NMC were influenced following the (Francis Report 2012). “Reflection is the personal exploration of your own thoughts and actions; it is about thinking things over, which will often reveal anxieties, errors, and weakness as well as strengths and successes” (Boyd and Fales 1983, p19). Reflective practice is an important act in which people, recall their experience's, absorb

This essay demonstrates the significant learning that resulted as a consequence of using critical reflection on my practice. The reflective process helped me to realise how my practice needed to change after I experienced a personal and practice-related issue during and after my clinical placement.

The nursing supervisor has multiple issues to address in this scenario, the use of restraints and formation of a pressure ulcer are of a great concern, but I believe these are easily rectified with training and follow-up audits to ensure

I am a second year nursing student in my third week of the practicum placement on a surgical ward with my co-student and the morning shift registered nurses. We had just finished analysing the patients handover report (Levett-Jones & Bourgeois, 2015) and I had been assigned to work with the registered nurse. I was looking after Mrs. Brown (pseudonym) is 82 years old New Zealander was admitted to surgical ward on the 08/06/16 for multiple SCC removals from L) hand and L) foot with skin grafts.

Researchers will decide to select wound infections that occur after open heart surgery as a topic for their study, because it is significant for staff nurses to know the effect of wound infections that occurs with the adult patients. Researchers will obtain permission from the cardiac surgery center so that they could collect information from adult patients. They will also contact and meet with staff nurses in cardiac surgery center. Nurse educators will provide the form to all staff nurses working in the operating room. The form includes the title of the study, the purpose of the study, place of the work, duration of the study, potential benefits, potential risks, participant signature, and date. The reader can follow that consent

All the pre-operative checks I did are important for patient safety and are derived from the World Health Organisation (WHO) surgical safety checklist (2008).The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist was developed after extensive consultation aiming to decrease errors and adverse events, and increase teamwork and communication in surgery (WHO, 2014). The ward staff had already put on the anti –embolism stockings on the patient.

An important cornerstone required when perusing a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree (BSN), is to gain practicum experience in a clinical setting. During practicum rotation, students can build on their foundation knowledge, think more critically and gain independence. The purpose of this paper is to reflect on my clinical experience during the second half of my practicum rotation, that captured the essence of my nursing practice.

Reflective accounts can be logged in a nurses’ journal which can be logged in a variety of ways such as, feelings of the day, notes on an experience the good and the bad points and any future plans which can be taken from the experience should it arise again. In nursing reflective practice is important to help nurses make sense of work situations and identify their strengths and weakness to enable them to be involved in opportunities such as further training to develop in the future and most of all to improve the way in which they deliver

Reflective Practice Introduction: Reflection its self is looking into personal thoughts and actions. For nurses this would mean looking at how they performed a particular task taking into consideration their interaction with their colleagues and other members of staff, patients and in some cases relatives This then enables the nurse to assess their actions and thought processes. There are various frameworks of reflection that one could choose and the examples used for this work is by Gibbs (1988), Johns (2000) and Benner (1982) Gibbs: Gibbs reflective cycle encourages one to think in order about the different areas of an experience. It is presented in a number of questions that the reflective practitioner

I stopped what I was doing to assess what was wrong. The patient’s abdominal dressing was soaked in fluid. I removed the dressing and noticed that in the middle of her incision site fluid was leaking and would not stop. I grabbed the gauze and applied pressure. After several soaked gauzes, I told the CNA to continue to apply slight pressure on that site and I went to get the

A surgical nurse is responsible for monitoring and ensuring quality healthcare for a patient following surgery. Assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and outcome evaluation are inherent in the post operative nurse’s role with the aim of a successful recovery for the patient. The appropriate provision of care is integral for prevention of complications that can arise from the anaesthesia or the surgical procedure. Whilst complications are common at least half of all complications are preventable (Haynes et al., 2009). The foundations of Mrs Hilton’s nursing plan are to ensure that any post surgery complications are circumvented. My role as Mrs Hilton’s surgical nurse will involve coupling my knowledge and the professional

Reflective practice is a tool used to evaluate ones opinion, thoughts and emotions. It “forms the basis of deep learning from past experiences” (Tsingo, 2014). It builds on critical thinking and problem solving. How I may choose use this in my future career as a radiation therapist is a means for debriefing, continued learning and managing my emotions. Ensuring I am mindful of myself. I hope to improve my understanding and obtain new perspectives by doing so. In the past, I have kept reflective journal entries as a mandatory assessment. I have discovered that it extended my understanding of new topics and ideas. I’ve noted reflective tools are a great way to addresses strengths and weaknesses. In short, it encourages active learning and proactivity by analysing a situation.

There has been an increasingly large amount of interest around the areas of reflective practice and critical reflection. This interest has led to an increasing amount of literature around reflective practice and critical reflection.

Somerville, D. and Keeling, J. (2004) A Practical Approach to promote reflective practice within nursing. Nursing Times; 100: 12, 42-45