Nursing Reflection Paper In Nursing

TeamSTEPPS Reflection Journal Providing safe and effective care to clients and patients is of upmost importance in a nurse’s career. However, the nurse in not alone in providing this care. A nurse is involved with a multi-team system, who all work together to provide even better care for others. An instance where there was a lack of safe care and teamwork comes from Halifax Hospital Medical Center in 2013 where a patient woke up from surgery at a Florida hospital to find that her surgeon had operated on the wrong leg. The surgeon proceeded to tell her that the other leg needed to be done anyways. He then asked her to sign a consent form after the fact (Jameson, 2013). The patient was admitted to the hospital for vascular disease, which was causing leg pain. She gave her consent for a vascular graft surgery on her left leg, but surgical staff scheduled surgery for her right leg. Even the operating room nurse supervisor said the patient said she was having her left leg done, but the nurse had it in her mind the right

Factors can include team members not communicating to one another with correct information. A second factor is the willingness of the surgeon to cooperate with others that are below him. We saw that the surgeon was unwilling to take advice or instructions from a nurse. Lastly, a major factor was the error of the surgical staff scheduling the wrong leg for surgery. Although, it should have been stated in the patient’s medical records the correct leg that was going to be operated on. If I were the operating room nurse supervisor, I would have doubled checked with a medical record to confirm which leg the operation was to take place on to see if the patient was incorrect or correct. When the patient is fully aware and able to understand information, it is always a good idea to double check because they more than likely know what is going