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Looking Back and Elaborating Over the course of my clinical placement at Bridgeport Healthcare, I would like to personally reflect on one occasion where I was able to interact with a patient and understand his experience within the healthcare system and develop an awareness about the importance caring in nursing practice. The patient's name was Mr. F and the nurse taking care of him was Harry. During morning care, I engaged in conversation with Mr. F and learned that he used to work as an architect for an international embassy and graduated from a very prestigious school in the United States. He said being in the hospital was a bit lonely and is definitely not like it was travelling around the world as he fondly liked to reminisce about. …show more content…

F about the quality of care he was receiving. It can be hypothesized that since I was unable to adequately respond to Mr. F’s concerns about the care he was receiving in a respectful, compassionate way, Mr. F could have normalized the lack of hermeneutic caring and continued to feel as if he was nothing but another illness to be take care of by nurses and a student nurse as myself - greatly disrupting the therapeutic relationship I wanted to form with my patient. I learnt throughout my first year in nursing school that providing meaningful, holistic care was the centrepiece of therapeutic nursing. Scott (2014) expressed that patients believe the humanizing, caring elements of nursing interventions are particularly more valuable than the technical competence, knowledge, and willingness to seek information aspect of nursing care. By shifting the focus to Harry, I could see that he was a busy nurse who had a lot of things to accomplish for his patient list. Harry provided quality medical care and seamlessly used the equipment to get vital signs and provide medication but was not able to engage in meaningful conversation (e.g. asking if the patient had any plans today). However, I don’t see the fault in Harry as an individual nurse, I can see Harry trying to provide adequate time for all the patients on his list without experiencing burnout. …show more content…

F had or did not have to make him develop this understanding of nurses. I would take his response into consideration with a combination of the diagnoses he has, his coping strategies, former architecture background, and known support systems to find a way to advocate for better nursing care and provide resources for the patient to feel comfortable in his healing environment. I could also provide direct care by asking Mr. F if there was anything I could do for him within my scope of practice. By changing my responses and mindset about what Mr. F said, I would be able to take an action-orientated approach to help the patient recover. Nonetheless, throughout the care exchange, I genuinely felt a deep sense of care for the patient’s wellbeing and experience within the health care facility. I feel like this type of behaviour is an important one to preserve whether it be between one patient or all patients that I will meet in my clinical placements. To further my reflective learning, I would begin to actively seek resources and support groups that I can offer to my patients and find ways I can advocate for safe practices and better environment for nurses to perform in. I would try to develop my ability to freely speak out about issues and feel comfortable voicing my judgements and providing a voice for the clients I care for. Through this experience, I

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