Reflection on Uncomfortable Experience Bed Bath

Reflection on Uncomfort adequate Experience Bed BathPeople individualized victimisation.IntroductionThe evolution of thoughtful skills is a pick out element of personal and professional development for nursing and healthcare staff (Smith, 1998). However, it is important to be able to develop effective skills in reflection, which incorporates much more than simply reviewing incidents, but forms part of a process of ongoing development of self awake(predicate)ness and cleverness into the actions of self and others (Rolfe et al, 2001). According toJones (1995), reflection is also an important part of developing clinical skills and understanding the relationship between evidence and quality of healthcare practice. This federal agency that reflection is also part of professional development and provision of the best possible standards of care (Gustafsson and Fagerberg, 2004 Higgs and Titchen, 2001). Some authors suggest that reflection is both flawed and biased, and because of this, is non necessarily a useful activity, but this is usu all told because if reflection is not focused properly, it does not achieve what it is supposed to achieve (Burnard, 2002). Any reflection could be poentially biased, as it is an indiviudal and personal action applying critical thinking to essentially subjective experiences (Jones, 1995). However, the value of reflection has been repeatedly demonstrated in the literature as providing elements of personal development through insight and learning, and professional development, through reflecting on receive practice in the light of best practice (Cottrell, 2003 Gibbs, 1988 Schon, 1987).Reflection often focuses on decided elements of nursing experience, such as critical incidents or significant occurrences within clincal practice (Minghella and Benson, 1995 Smith, 1998). This kind of reflection is important to allow suck ups to understand the experience and their own role within the case, and to consider how to change their behaviours to improve future practice (Gibbs, 1988 John and Freshwater, 1998). It is this capacity to change and improve practice which is the real value and tendency of reflection (Rolfe et al, 2001). This essay focuses on an experience caring for a diligent with a spinal injury, who was immobile and had suffered incontinence of faeces, which required nursing care to suffice with personal hygienics. The chosen model for the reflection is Gibbs(1998) model (see Appendix) which is a cylical model which allows for a review of the incident and an evaluation of the experience, followed by development of a platform for future practice improvement. talk activeionDescriptionIn this element of the model, Gibbs (1988) march ons the practitioner to get the incident, to say what happened. In this case, the unhurried was immobile within an acute hospital facility, had been incontinent of faeces, and was, understandably, upset and embarassed by what had happened. In particular, the pat ient, who was a young adult male, was very aware of the odour. I assisted the qualified nurse in tending to his hygiene inescapably, using appropriate manual handling equipment. The patient was upset by the experience.Simply by describing this incident in a few lines, I control been able to highlight key elements of the incident which start to emerge as important for considering future practice.FeelingsIn this element of the Gibbs (1988) cycle, the practitioner is encouraged to describe how they were feeling. In this case, I was also embarassed, and made even more so by the awareness of the faecal odour and the fact that this was a young male, who was macrocosm given a bed bath by two women. I also felt very sorry for the young man, who was immobile due to an stroke and spinal cord injury.Here, reflecting on my feelings makes me realise that my feelings may pretend been transmitted to the patient, and that a professional approach is needed because the patient is already embar assed and self-conscious. I was aware that we had a lot of power, because the patient could not help himself, and that how I behaved was important in reducing the effect on the patient.EvaluationIn this element of the brooding cycle, the practitioner is required to consider what is good and what is bad about the experience. In this case, it was good that working with an experienced nurse, the whole procedure was managed swiftly and professionally, and that communication with the patient was maintained throughout. The qualified nurse had cared for the patient before, and they seemed to have a good nurse-patient relationship. Her manner was professional but warm, not patronising. The negative parts of the experience include my own feelings getting in the way of my professional relationship with the patient, and the fact that I am sure he was aware of my reaction to the situation.AnalysisThis is the key section of the Gibbs (1988) cycle, because it encourages the nurse to analyse the situation, and it is here that critical analysis skills come to the fore. In relation to caring for a patient in this kind of situation, the complexness of the emotional/psychological and personal dimensions of the patients experience means that professional approaches to their care are very important (Slater, 2003). The use of different hygiene aids and approaches, such as, for example, planning to check for hygiene needs very frequently, might assist in preventing this situation occurring. However, as a junior student, I was not really aware of what other options there might be. Further discussion with my mentor revealed that the patient had been considering a stoma bag, because this would give him some discover over managing faecal incontinence and would allow the patient some independence. The patient was paraplegic, not quadraplegic, and would, with the stoma back, be able to manage his own hygiene needs in relation to bowel function. The implications of this kind of surgery w ould be considerable. I didnt realise until after the incident, whilst discussing it with my mentor, that this was on the patients mind, and that much of his answer to the situation was due to frustration and that these experiences were contributing to his desire to have surgery to have a stoma formed.ConclusionThis section of the reflective cycle asks the nurse what else they could have done. In this situation, I think I could have perhaps discussed more of the patients case with the nurse prior to the incident, or could have asked the patient, sensitively, what we could have done to support him better. I could also have spent more time considering the kind of impact that spinal cord injury would have on a young, otherwise fit man, in terms of the social impact, and the lack of independence. Certainly I had never considered major surgery as a means of providing some personal independence.Action PlanHere the nurse writes bullet points of action for future practice. In the future I willDiscuss cases in more detail with the qualified nurseBe aware of my own emotional responses and try to act more professionally.Listen to the patient and encourage them to talk frankly with me.Try to develop better communication skillsSpend more time after even seemingly innoccuous incidents talking with my mentor about cases, to become more aware of the complexities of patient experiences.Overall ConclusionThis reflective cycle has provided me with a deeper insight into a situation which for me, was at first all about my response and feeling sorry for the patient. 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