Reflection On Clinical Experience
This essay is written to reflect an critical incident that I have experienced during my Professional Practice Experience 4 placement at Bankstown hospital using Gibbs Reflective Cycle.
At the time of the incident, I was following the clinical guidelines and practice my medication administration skills by giving subcutaneous injection to a patient at the abdomen site, under the supervision of an register nurse. Before the injection, I have checked the site for redness, bruises and pain, which there were none, but during the process of injection, the patient started to ranting how painful it was and yelling at me saying “ you are a butcher”, then spit all over my face and my hair. I still finished the injection, disposed the sharps later and …show more content…
I thought he was exaggerating and giving me a hard time.I talked to my RN about this incident later, she told me this patient has always been difficult and demanding and never the less he shouldn't have spit at me, but also, Instead of giving him a subcutaneous injection, I could have held the needle at the wrong angle and given him an epidermis one, and maybe that was the cause of the pain.
One positive aspect is that I finished the injection and disposed the sharps first, but I should have be more aware of body fluid exposure. Also, when the incident happened, I left without trying to communicate with the patient further. Finally, maybe my lack of experiences did make the needle went epidermal and caused him pain.
I think my lack of clinical experience is one of the main reason that this incident happened. It had made me more cautious about how easy it is to be infected with body fluid. I have also realized, doesn’t matter how many times that we have practice at school and how confident that we thought we were, in clinical practice, something challenging and unexpected can always happen, and we need to have the ability to handle different
At the time of the incident, I was following the clinical guidelines and practice my medication administration skills by giving subcutaneous injection to a patient at the abdomen site, under the supervision of an register nurse. Before the injection, I have checked the site for redness, bruises and pain, which there were none, but during the process of injection, the patient started to ranting how painful it was and yelling at me saying “ you are a butcher”, then spit all over my face and my hair. I still finished the injection, disposed the sharps later and …show more content…
I thought he was exaggerating and giving me a hard time.I talked to my RN about this incident later, she told me this patient has always been difficult and demanding and never the less he shouldn't have spit at me, but also, Instead of giving him a subcutaneous injection, I could have held the needle at the wrong angle and given him an epidermis one, and maybe that was the cause of the pain.
One positive aspect is that I finished the injection and disposed the sharps first, but I should have be more aware of body fluid exposure. Also, when the incident happened, I left without trying to communicate with the patient further. Finally, maybe my lack of experiences did make the needle went epidermal and caused him pain.
I think my lack of clinical experience is one of the main reason that this incident happened. It had made me more cautious about how easy it is to be infected with body fluid. I have also realized, doesn’t matter how many times that we have practice at school and how confident that we thought we were, in clinical practice, something challenging and unexpected can always happen, and we need to have the ability to handle different