Nursing Reflection Paper

I found my last two clinical practice days to be both a great learning opportunity, and a realization that I have to reshape my goals and explore why I am so challenged to working in a linear fashion and better manage my time. By improving on this, I will make less mistakes, document at the right time and facilitate nursing interventions such as medication administration, timely pre and prost medication assessments and client teaching opportunities and healing initiatives.

I was fortunate to have two different clients this week with too completely different and complicated medical history and diagnosis. One client with ulcerative colitis, ileus, type II diabetes mellitus and the other client had left foot necrotic ulcers, CHF and atrial figuration

She used her empirical knowing of anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology make an inference that allowing his bowels and GI system to rest was important to decrease the inflammation, pain and discomfort. This empirical knowing was also evident in her knowledge of type II diabetes and nutritional management. She knew with the client’s decreased nutritional intake that he was in danger of a diabetes complication without adequate nutrition. Intuition was also evident in her knowing that all the signs and symptoms he was experiencing would indicated that resting his digestive system with adequate nutrition was important to the care of this client’s. She also used unknowing because it was not 100% confirmed is the client had an ileus and if the parenteral nutrition would work. However, with the client’s condition being somewhat critical with this diabetes, she collaborated with his HCPs to get an order for

She demonstrated appropriate boundaries and professionalism mixed with just the right amount of compassion and empathy with her clients. This is something I will strive for and set some goals around this. I know I tend to get caught up in discussion and will need to find that balance where I professional in my skills and relations, but can demonstrate empathy, compassion and make time to listen to my client’s. Fine tuning my relational capacity is paramount when caring for multiple patients as I will only have short periods of time to engage with my