How To Write A Reflective Essay About My Clinical Experience

I implemented ones role as a nurse in ways that reflect integrity, responsibility, ethical practices & evolving identity as a nurse committed to caring, advocacy and quality while adhering to evidence based practice by treating all individuals with dignity and respect. For example, when I would tell the team members what treatments needed to be done I would tell them in a nice way and ask if they needed help.

I demonstrated appropriate written, verbal and non-verbal communication in a variety of clinical contexts by complete documentation according to agency guidelines by making sure all team members documented information correctly and appropriately so when others looked up the documentation they would understand. If I noticed something

For example, I don’t share information about residents outside of clinical. The sheet I used at clinical with the residents information about treatments I make sure to tear up and throw away so no health information can be disclosed.

1. My strong points during this week’s clinical experience was keeping myself together and not going crazy when I was team leader. The day I was team leader there was a lot going on and I felt like Tara and I kept everything under control very well and worked together. I was also proud of Becca and I noticing wheezing in lung sounds on a resident.

2. An area I can improve on is giving report to the nurse at the end of the shift. I felt like I didn’t know exactly what the nurse wanted to know and that the report could of gone a lot smoother.

3. My clinical goal for next week is to use different pain rating scales for my resident.

4. My plan to achieve my goal is to find a nurse on staff to gather information on the different scales and to try multiple ones that I could use on my resident to see which one she responds best