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Weekly Self Reflection Essay

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S- Discuss your SUBJECTIVE feelings for this week: This week was a hard one. I knew when I was assigned to the patient that it wasn’t going to be easy. I emotionally separated myself when I was taking care of the patient but when the family came into the room and starting telling stories of how wonderful the patient was; it was hard to separate my emotions from the job. I have volunteered for Hospice for years and have had experience talking with patient’s families but it was a gradually decline for the patient and the families learned to accept their loved one’s terminal illness. This case was just tragic. At first I was a little intimidated because the patient’s blood pressure was so unstable so my nurse and I spent all most the entire day administering meds to stabilize her so I didn’t really do that …show more content…

I did improve on the skills I have already learned and practiced in clinical settings. I felt Friday was a much more productive day for me clinically and Thursday was more productive psychologically with my social skills.
P - Discuss your PLAN for improvement, change, new challenges etc. I did go over my shift report with Terri, my nurse on Friday to see if she could critic me and help me improve. She was great and really helped me become more organized. I am not going to say that my shift reports are smooth sailing from now on, I still have a lot of improvement. My brain is always so disorganized so it is going to be awhile before I can do this in a systematic way. My plan for improvement is to keep practicing with my peers on shift reports. I am also lacking confidence in myself, so I need to improve on this. I really need to catch myself before I start putting myself down.
A - Discuss how what you learned in theory this week APPLIES to your patient

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