This reflective writing will discover and highlight the major patient care concept in relation to my personal experience and feelings. Throughout this essay, my reflection will be based on how well I was able to treat the patient who was suffering from severe pain in surgical ward. I will further explore the pain assessment as conducted with one 70 year old patient whom I will refer as Mr X. while describing my overall experience with a single patient, I will also reveal and share some questions and ideas which has provoked me to know more about pain assessment criteria in general. Discussion I will be using Gibbs reflective cycle as a guide for my essay. Gibbs reflective cycle is one of the most used and popular model of reflection which includes the steps and detail including the description that reveals the facts and situation of the case that might take place when incident occurs (Gibbs, 1988). As in my case, I was given the responsibility to deal with the patient that were managed and admitted in pre-operatively process because of intestinal obstruction. Secondly the reflection will relates to my personal feeling in taking care of the patient at the …show more content…
On my first day at acute surgical ward, I met the patient (Mr X) who was suffering from severe abdominal pain and got admitted to surgical ward where the patient was identified with small intestinal obstruction, for surgical intervention it was being managed pre-operative. While reviewing and attending the case I was initially being supervised by my mentor, at that time Mr X called me up and complained regarding his pain that was becoming more serious. At that time i observed the agony and level of pain he was suffering from, that what quite disturbing for